Talking Points from 1/18/2012 Labor and Strikes  

Kinghts of Labor (1869)

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

AFL( American Federation of Labor)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890

Homestead Strike, 1892

The Pullman Strike, 1894

Antracite Coal Strke, 1902

The Wagner Act, 1935

The Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO)

AFL-CIO split (1935)

Taft-Hartley Act (1947) -Opposeed by organized labor

United Farn Workers