- Industry: Government; Labor
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Union descriptions of tragic events in labor history. Examples include Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre where ten steelworkers were shot dead and over eighty were wounded by police on May 30, 1937. There was the Hilo, Hawaii, Massacre of 1938 where nearly fifty unionists were shot or bayonetted by police while sitting on a government pier protesting the unloading of a struck ship. Also, the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 which included the killing of eleven children and two women by the state militia.
Industry:Labor
A court order which prohibits a party from taking a particular course of action, such as picketing in the case of a union on strike.
Industry:Labor
A worker who has completed his apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is therefore considered a qualified skilled worker.
Industry:Labor
Arguments among unions over which union represents workers at a job site.
Industry:Labor
A union which includes all the workers in an industry regardless of their craft. Industrial unions formed the base of the CIO.
Industry:Labor
The great advances in technology beginning in the late eighteenth century turned America from a handicraft economy into one of technological mass production.
Industry:Labor
A phrase once used to describe unions as a humanizing force at the workplace. In the 1970s it is corning to mean worker participation in management decisionmaking.
Industry:Labor
A worker in the bargaining unit who refuses to join the union but accepts all the benefits negotiated by the union. Also called a "freeloader. "
Industry:Labor
Early labor groups formed by workers for social and philanthropic purposes.
Industry:Labor
