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The following is a timeline of labor history, organizing & conflicts, from the early 1600s to present. ... The lawsuit was resolved when a U.S. district court ...
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, minimum wage and overtime; West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) upholding the legality of the minimum wage, reversing Adkins; United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941) held that all labor standards could be regulated consistently with the Commerce Clause, reversing Hammer
The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights, wages, working hours, political expression, labor laws, and other working conditions.
In November 2021, a regional director for the NLRB found that Amazon had violated labor laws at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, including by interrogating, surveilling, and threatening pro-union workers, as well as by setting "overly broad" restrictions on workers' access to the warehouse, during a union drive at the warehouse by the Retail ...
"Review of Labor Legislation of 1908 and 1909" (No. 85) Report of the Industrial Commission on Labor Legislation (vol. v., U.S. Commission's Report) C. D. Wright, Industrial Evolution in the United States (1887) Stimson, Handbook to the Labor Laws of the United States; Stimson, Labor in its Relation to Law; Adams and Sumner, Labor Problems
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear appeals from ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, which were asking to block California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of ...
In the new year, blockbuster legal cases will play out in US courts. Major criminal cases include Sean "Diddy" Combs and Luigi Mangione. In the civil arena, the DOJ's list of antitrust lawsuits ...
The list of worker deaths in United States labor disputes captures known incidents of fatal labor-related violence in U.S. labor history, which began in the colonial era with the earliest worker demands around 1636 for better working conditions. It does not include killings of enslaved persons.