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Rick Halpern, "Organized Labor, Black Workers, and the Twentieth Century South: The Emerging Revision" in Race and Class in the American South since 1890, eds. Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern (Berg: 1994). Eric Arnesen (1987) "To rule or ruin: New Orleans dock workers' struggle for control 1902–1903," Labor History, 28:2, 139–166.
Cook, Bernard A. (1983). "The Typographical Union and the New Orleans General Strike of 1892". Louisiana History. 24 (4). Filippelli, Ronald L. (1990). Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. ISBN 0-8240-7968-X. Foner, Philip S. (1955). History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 2: From the ...
Unions exist to represent the interests of workers, who form the membership. Under US labor law, the National Labor Relations Act 1935 is the primary statute which gives US unions rights. The rights of members are governed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959. List Below
A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly helped state and local governments by a 47–45 margin. A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly hurt the US economy in general by a 49–45 margin. The majority of Americans believed labor unions mostly hurt workers who are not members of unions by a 56–34 margin.
The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption.
The United Fruit Company strike of 1913 started on June 2, 1913. [1] It was a worker-led strike organized by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) [2] [3] in New Orleans against the United Fruit Company that was marked by violence.
The union continued to exist as a shell until 1914, but the mills were never organized by the labor unions. This set the stage for further anti-unionism in the oil fields of Louisiana and east Texas. By the end of 1921, the Piney Woods of Louisiana and Texas had been completely cut down, ending a 30-year boom for west Louisiana and east Texas.
Colored National Labor Union founded. [18] Uriah Stephens, pre-1882. Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union. 1869 (United States) Uriah Smith Stephens organized a new union known as the Knights of Labor. [18] 1869 ...