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Labor-Union Trivia Answers

  1. Harlan County War
  2. A story about striking zinc miners and their wives in New Mexico (1950's)
  3. 10,000 Black Men Named George
  4. At the River I Stand-Striking workers were members of AFSCME, assasinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King
  5. International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
  6. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), Utility Workers Union of America
  7. Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (Ver.di)
  8. Communications International, Media Entertainment International, International Graphical Federation, International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional, and Technical Employees
  9. International Federation of Free Teachers Unions and the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession
  10. In 1968 name changed to World Confederation of Labour
  11. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
  12. National Trade Union Centers-in the United States the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  13. Brussels, Belgium
  14. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
  15. Francis Dillon 1935-36
  16. Yes, in 1968, then re-affiliated in 1981
  17. Adolph Strasser
  18. American Federation of Labor
  19. Frank Hayes
  20. Unionized police officers

  1. Grapes
  2. Employee Retirement Income Security Act
  3. Better known as Joe Hill, labor agitator and song writer associated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  4. William H. Sylvis, iron moulder
  5. William B. Wilson in 1913
  6. Yes, Brazil, Indiana
  7. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  8. West Virginia, 1920
  9. John McBride
  10. A sit-down strike
  11. Cigar Makers International Union, 1874
  12. Female garment workers
  13. A small logo placed at the bottom of union and political literature, business cards, etc., to show that it was done by a union represented print shop
  14. Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  15. State of Arizona U.S.A.
  16. No, although both are a third party, an arbitrator renders decisions (awards) pertaining to grievances, while a mediator tries to persuade managemnet and the union to come to a voluntary agreement (contract negotiations)
  17. Auto executive George Romney
  18. Four miles from the town of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  19. Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
  20. 1791 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the carpenters

  1. 1810 in Suffield, Connecticut
  2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  3. Carrie Wilson
  4. First all female local of the Knights of Labor
  5. National Women's Trade Union League
  6. Upton Sinclair
  7. Lafollette Seamen's Act
  8. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  9. 1919, Boston, Massachusetts police
  10. Wisconsin
  11. John L Lewis
  12. Taft-Hartley 1947 (Labor Management Relations Act)
  13. President John Kennedy
  14. Civil Rights Act
  15. United Auto Workers and the Teamsters
  16. Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
  17. International Typographical Union
  18. Ford Motor Company
  19. Coalition of Labor Union Women
  20. Joyce Miller

  1. Ralph Chaplin
  2. United Garment Workers of America
  3. Within the mine a kerosene torch ignited bales of hay, creating a terrible fire. 259 men and boys perished.
  4. Provided for mediation and arbitration of railroad labor disputes.
  5. The Norris-LaGuardia Act
  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  7. George Meany
  8. Hawaii
  9. Union Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois
  10. Walter Reuther
  11. United Steel Workers of America
  12. United Stone and Allied Products Workers
  13. John L. Lewis and Philip Murray
  14. United Steel Workers of America
  15. Weapons which were adapted by employers for use in labor disputes-machine guns, tear gas, grenades
  16. Knights of Labor
  17. Used by the workers to buy goods at the company store (Paper chits distributed by the company to the workers instead of cash)
  18. Bound For Glory
  19. Norma Rae
  20. National Colored Labor Union

  1. (National Labor Relations Board) Primary function is to conduct union certification elections and preliminary investigations into unfair labor charges
  2. Founder and first leader of the Knights of Labor (1869)
  3. American Federation of Labor (1886)
  4. In 1931 as a warehouse worker at Kroger Foods he organized a warehousemen's union referred to as "The Strawberry Boys", which later affiliated with the AFL and the Detroit Teamsters Joint Council
  5. Yes-Terre Haute, Indiana town clerk, and the Indiana State Legislature
  6. Unskilled non-union cigarmakers using the "cigar mold" working piece rate for lower pay
  7. Eugene V. Debs
  8. Mary "Mother" Jones
  9. An 8 hour day for railway workers (1916)
  10. Australia
  11. A clause to make sure that the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement that expires will continue until a new CBA is ratified
  12. Eastern-Central Pennsylvania
  13. Congress of Industrial Organizations
  14. Coal miners
  15. United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
  16. A paid union official
  17. A Black Cat-Unofficial mascot of the Industrial Workers of the World
  18. John L. Lewis
  19. Independent non-union drivers
  20. Samuel Gompers

  1. GM Fisher auto body plant in Flint, Michigan
  2. Grapes of Wrath
  3. When a unionized contractor sets up a non-union company to underbid and compete with his union company
  4. Harry Bridges (1933)
  5. Philip A. Randolph
  6. A trade union of shoemakers, founded in 1867 in the state of Massachusetts
  7. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  8. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  9. Davis-Bacon Act
  10. National Trades' Union
  11. Knights of Labor
  12. Harlan County, USA
  13. Blue Collar
  14. James R. Hoffa
  15. On The Waterfront
  16. F.I.S.T. (1978)
  17. Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
  18. Western Federation of Miners
  19. Samuel Gompers
  20. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

  1. 1886
  2. It set the federal minimum wage and overtime regulations. Set limits on child labor. Created the 40-hour workweek into federal law. It also exempted certain types of employment
  3. New York City in 1882
  4. Elizabeth Chambers Morgan
  5. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  6. Mary E. Kenney
  7. Triangle Shirtwaist
  8. Tony Boyle (mineworkers leader)
  9. Women's Trade Union League
  10. International Labor Organization (ILO)
  11. An agreement that new workers were forced to sign stating that they are not members of any union and that they will not join a union as condition of employment
  12. Robert F. Wagner
  13. Industrial Workers of the World
  14. John L. Lewis and Philip Murray
  15. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  16. Ceaser Chavez

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