The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)

The laborers demanded a 20%, greater protection and rights, and have the work day reduced to nine hours instead of ten. The stubbornness of the corporation would ultimately be their own defeat. The strike was becoming a substantial burden on the United States due to the diminishing amount of coal being produced. Due to this, Roosevelt decided to intervene. It is true that Roosevelt threatened the mine owners when no negotiation was met, but this would be the first time a president sided with a union over corporations. This is quite a revolutionary action for unions, because Roosevelt heard the people’s voice and answered. The owners agreed, and the workers got the terms the union had been fighting for. Roosevelt is known to be overly expressive, so he also convinced Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and the Meat Inspection Act. Congress was cautious in passing these acts due to the amount of influence the meat industry had, but Roosevelt was the man that convinced Congress. These acts protect

This strike proved to open many doors for the postal workers and their families as well as giving others courage to so what they believe in. In doing what they did they made the future for every postal worker so much better than it could have ever been by forming the America Postal Workers Union and achieving the Postal Reorganization Act. The effectiveness of their tactic may not have immediately been high, but within the next year or less it proved to be a great movement that they made

The Arizona towns of Clifton and Morenci, Arizona have a rich history with conflict and conflict transformation. The conflict between the Phelps Dodge Corporation (PDC) and United Steelworkers (USW) took place from 1983 to 1985 and had drastic implications on United States labor relations. This conflict analysis will focus on the conflict’s background, its evolution, and the parties and their issues. In addition, a reflection on important conflict resolution principles will be provided.

President Hayes didn’t totally resolve the dispute and it may have not been done in the best way, but the people did head back to work and the strike ended because of his

In New York, thousands of USPS employees commenced to striking, President Richard Nixon specified that the workers should return to their occupations and they will not make a decision under the weight of a strike. The workers did not pay attention, and within days, 200,000 workers were on the walkout. The strike had currently spread to 30 main

The outcome of the strike was so disastrous for the labor union that it caused even the United States government to fear Gould’s autocratic power; the president himself had urged Gould not to stand in the way of arbitration.

On August 5th 1981, President Ronald Reagan began firing over 11,000 air traffic controllers because of their lack of obedience to return to work. Before this event occurred two days, many of the employed air traffic controllers began to go on strike because government officials refused to raise their pay and shortened their workweek. But because they were denied those demands, the controllers began to go on strike until their voices were heard. Until then, they refused to take part in any of their work. Because of this rebellion, at least 7,000 flights were delayed because of the strike. This has led to quite rebellion workers leading to President Ronald Reagan taking drastic measures. Reagan knew that this was getting out of control and had

This poor treatment of workers would bring nearly 10,000 labor strikes in the 1880s, this led to greater danger and violence. After such an intense period of time, President Mickinley was

The federal government efforts to destroy labor union strikes were fruitful during The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (Document B) and The Homestead Strike in 1892 (Document G). The Great Railroad Strike started with a devastating stock market crash and depression in 1873. Thousands of businesses were forced to close down and others forced to drastically reduce pay and fire their workers. Years later on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is mentioned in Document B, railroad laborers working on these lines striked because of the reductions in their pay. According to the New York Times in 1877, this revolt was hopeless, and hopeless it was. The great strike, which consisted of 45 days severely punished the economy that is until President Rutherford B. Hayes called out the militia. Two weeks after the calling of the militia almost 100 people died. America's railroads stood still but America's railroad workers still did not receive the wages they rightfully deserved.

More than seventy-five years after the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act, is there still a place for unions? The solution may lay in the definition of labor itself.

“Upwards of 250,000 workers in Chicago were on strike, threatening to strike, or locked out by late July 1919.In other words, one out of every three or four men and women in wage-earning fields in which there was the slightest union activity was a participant in a labor

However, the power of employees has grown considerably since the early 1990s. Even though UPS was a manager owned private firm, the employees went on strike in 1997 and successfully obtained wage rises and other benefits. Federal Express handed out $20 Million worth of bonuses at the same time to thank their employees as well as make sure that they did not consider similar actions. This shows that employee power has increased in recent times leading to lower industry attractiveness.

The tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and the events that ensued afterwards are not the first to exemplify workers’ loss of freedom due to the corruptibility of government by powerful corporate interests. In 1905, the Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York declared unconstitutional a state law establishing a limitation to the number of hours employees could work (626). The court held that liberty of contract is implicit in the Fourteenth Amendment and such a law “interfered with the right of contract between employer and employee” (626). In response, workers felt they were being granted liberties they did not want, and the liberties that were of “real value” were being withheld (626). The “overwhelming labor question” thus sparked labor walkouts and

adamantly opposed any recognition of the union. Thus, the union members decided to strike over wages, safety

David Brody argues that the rise of contractual or collective bargaining relationships during the post WWII era formalized the relationship between employers and unions. The use of collective bargaining agreements to resolve workplace disputes weakened unions and the power of workers. Other actions, such as using collection bargaining as a form of substitution for direct action and using it instead of the strike for grievance and arbitration procedure served , also has weakened the unions and the power of workers. The rise of contractual or collective bargaining relationships changed the dynamic of the workplace, shifting the power from the union side to towards the employers. The perspective could best be argued suing Weber’s theory and