Labor Day was first celebrated on September 5th, 1882 in New York City and became a national holiday in 1894. Baseball players dissatisfied with pay and conditions in the National League set up the...

"We mean to uphold the dignity of labor." "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." "The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce." "The organizatio...

Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers in 1975: 235 In 1995: 31 American Federation of Labor members in 1897: 265,000 Members in 1904: 1,675,000 Factor by which rates of union membership in...

American Plan Sloganeering effort by business during the 1920s that held union shops to be a denial of workers' freedom and therefore un-American. Arbitration A way for workers and managers to sett...