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The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution produced a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities. As workers moved from farms to factories, mines and other hard labor, they faced harsh working conditions such as long hours, low pay and ...
Adin Ballou. Adin Ballou (April 23, 1803 – August 5, 1890) was an American proponent of Christian nonresistance, Christian anarchism, and Christian socialism. He was also an abolitionist and the founder of the Hopedale Community . Through his long career as a Universalist and Unitarian minister, he tirelessly advocated for the immediate ...
Burning of Pennsylvania Railroad and Union Depot, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 21–22 July 1877. In Reading, Pennsylvania, workers conducted mass marches, blocked rail traffic, committed trainyard arson, and burned a bridge. The state militia shot sixteen citizens in the Reading Railroad Massacre.
Battle of Blair Mountain. Part of the West Virginia Coal Wars. Cover of The Washington Times with the headline that the US airfleet had been sent into West Virginia. Date. August 25 to September 2, 1921. Location. Logan County, West Virginia. 37°51′45″N 81°51′23″W. / 37.86250°N 81.85639°W / 37.86250; -81.85639.
Starbucks is the poster child of union-busting in the United States. Starbucks Union official Gary Bonadonna Jr. That region became the epicenter of a movement that has now held successful union ...
Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace. Union busting tactics can refer to both legal and illegal activities, and can range anywhere from subtle to violent. Labor laws differ greatly from country to country in both level and type ...
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Starbucks in a union dispute on Thursday, significantly scaling back the National Labor Relations Board’s power to step in and protect workers from companies ...
16. The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 ...