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  1. Haledon, New Jersey, approximately 25 miles west of New York City
  2. Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)
  3. Chicago, United States in 1886
  4. Frances Perkins
  5. General Secretary, the chief administrative officer
  6. Yes, established in 1988 and honorees are chosen each year
  7. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize
  8. Yes, graduated in 1942
  9. Legendary folk singer, Bruce "Utah" Phillips
  10. Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA)
  11. Meatpacker, ordained minister, first woman to serve as a local board member of the United Packinghouse Food and Alliance Workers Union, and co-founder of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
  12. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1827
  13. Yes, 70 Years of Life and Labor, originally published in 1925 shortly after his death
  14. Yes, from Villanova University, 1974
  15. Cigar Makers International Union in 1867
  16. Know as the first national union of women organized in 1869 by shoestitchers in Massachusetts
  17. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
  18. Frances Perkins
  19. John B. Rae 1890-1892
  20. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, later re-named the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
  21. Yes she did!!
  22. His role was that of James McParlan of the Pinkerton Detective Agency
  23. 9 To 5
  24. Harlan County War (2000)
  25. A story about striking zinc miners and their wives in New Mexico (1954)
  26. 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
  27. At The River I Stand - Striking workers were members of AFSCME, assassinated civil rights leader was Martin Luther King (1993)
  28. International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
  29. 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 (UWUA)
  30. The International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) and the World Federation of Building and Wood Workers (WFBW)
  31. Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (Ver.di)
  32. Communications International, Media Entertainment International, International Graphical Federation, International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional, and Technical Employees
  33. International Federation of Free Teachers Unions and the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession
  34. In 1968 name changed to World Confederation of Labour (WCL)
  35. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
  36. National Trade Union Centers - in the United States the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  37. Brussels, Belgium
  38. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
  39. Francis Dillon 1935-36
  40. Yes, in 1968, then re-affiliated in 1981
  41. Adolph Strasser
  42. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  43. Frank Hayes
  44. Unionized police officers
  45. Grapes
  46. Employee Retirement Income Security Act
  47. Better known as Joe Hill, labor agitator and song writer associated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  48. William H. Sylvis, iron moulder
  49. William B. Wilson in 1913
  50. Yes, in Brazil, Indiana
  51. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  52. West Virginia, 1920
  53. John McBride
  54. A sit-down strike
  55. Cigar Makers International Union, 1874
  56. Female garment workers
  57. 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
  58. Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  59. State of Arizona U.S.A.
  60. 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)
  61. Auto executive George Romney
  62. Four miles from the town of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  63. Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
  64. 1791 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the carpenters
  65. 1810 in Suffield, Connecticut
  66. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  67. Carrie Wilson
  68. First all female local of the Knights of Labor
  69. National Women's Trade Union League
  70. Upton Sinclair
  71. Lafollette Seamen's Act
  72. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  73. 1919, Boston, Massachusetts police
  74. State of Wisconsin
  75. John L. Lewis
  76. Taft-Hartley 1947 (Labor Management Relations Act)
  77. President John Kennedy
  78. Civil Rights Act
  79. United Auto Workers and the Teamsters
  80. Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW)
  81. International Typographical Union
  82. Ford Motor Company
  83. Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
  84. Joyce Miller
  85. Ralph Chaplin
  86. Local 67 United Garment Workers of America
  87. Within the mine a kerosene torch ignited bales of hay, creating a terrible fire. 259 men and boys perished
  88. Provided for mediation and arbitration of railroad labor disputes
  89. The Norris-LaGuardia Act
  90. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  91. George Meany
  92. Hawaii
  93. He was not only a member, but served as President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
  94. Yes, re-organized in 1996
  95. North Country (2005)
  96. Requires most employers with 100 or more workers to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs to managers, supervisors, hourly and salaried workers, and union representatives (does not include federal, state or local government)
  97. Coalition of Immokalee Workers
  98. International Federation of Journalists, Brussels, Belgium
  99. National Writers Union (NWU)
  100. William Winpisinger
  101. A tripartite agency of the United Nations that brings together government, employer, and worker representatives to promote Decent Work For All. Responsible for complete oversight of labor standards, which take the form of International Labor Conventions which are ratified by member countries
  102. The GLU was created in 2004 and consists of a partnership and network of universities in Germany, Brazil, South Africa, and India, the International Labour Organization, and the international trade union movement. It offers trade unionists master programs on labour and globalization
  103. The 14 year struggle began by the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) to organize workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in North Carolina. In 1976 the TWUA merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU)
  104. The unions gained collective bargaining rights for the city workers they represented
  105. National Postal Mail Handlers Union
  106. Lane Kirkland
  107. Communications Workers of America (CWA)
  108. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
  109. Walter Reuther, negotiations started while serving as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  110. 9to5, National Association of Working Women
  1. Consists of negotiations between employers and generally a unionized workforce pertaining to conditions of employment. This would include rates of pay, hours worked, benefits (health care, pensions, etc.), grievance and arbitration procedures, and certain workplace rules and regulations which would include safety issues. Eventually a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is reached, a contract which is placed into writing and signed by both parties
  2. Alternative dispute resolution, as it applies to labor, provides arbitrators and mediators to individuals (workers) and organizations (unions) who want to resolve conflicts without going to court
  3. Dispute resolution, performs a central role in facilitating harmonious labor-management relations within the railroad and airline industries icluding disputes arising out of collective bargaining agreements
  4. Cyrus S. Ching, an industrialist who co-operated with labor
  5. Progressive Alliance
  6. Niether, she was murdered, shot twice in the head, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1919
  7. Grover Cleveland (1894)
  8. Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
  9. Yes he did
  10. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, labor and civil rights activists
  11. International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU)
  12. Served as mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1878-84
  13. Eric Lee
  14. Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU)
  15. America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice (1996)
  16. They were tried for manslaughter, but were found not guilty. They eventually opened another factory
  17. A boycott against the Bucks Stove and Range Company
  18. From Wharf Rats to the Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges
  19. Newsies (1990)
  20. United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
  21. The "Battle of Blair Mountain"
  22. David Isaac Dobnievski, better known as David Dubinsky
  23. Auto industry - General Motors
  24. Bread and Roses (2000)
  25. Union Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois
  26. Walter Reuther (United Auto Workers)
  27. United Steel Workers of America (USW)
  28. United Stone and Allied Products Workers
  29. John L. Lewis and Philip Murray
  30. United Steel Workers of America (USW)
  31. Weapons which were adapted by employers for use in labor disputes - machine guns, tear gas, grenades
  32. Knights of Labor
  33. Used by the workers to buy goods at the company store (Paper chits distributed by the company to the workers instead of cash)
  34. Bound For Glory
  35. Norma Rae
  36. National Colored Labor Union
  37. (National Labor Relations Board) Primary function is to conduct union certification elections and preliminary investigations into unfair labor charges
  38. Founder and first leader of the Knights of Labor (1869)
  39. American Federation of Labor (1886)
  40. 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
  41. Yes - Terre Haute, Indiana town clerk, and the Indiana State Legislature
  42. Unskilled non-union cigarmakers using the "cigar mold" working piece rate for lower pay
  43. Eugene V. Debs
  44. Mary "Mother" Jones
  45. An 8 hour day for railway workers (1916)
  46. Australia
  47. 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
  48. Eastern-Central Pennsylvania
  49. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  50. Coal miners
  51. United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
  52. A paid union official more concerned with being friends with management than representing the workers
  53. A Black Cat - Unofficial mascot of the Industrial Workers of the World
  54. John L. Lewis
  55. Independent non-union drivers
  56. Samuel Gompers
  57. GM Fisher auto body plant in Flint, Michigan
  58. Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  59. When a unionized contractor sets up a non-union company to underbid and compete with his union company
  60. Harry Bridges (1933)
  61. A. Philip Randolph
  62. A trade union of shoemakers, founded in 1867 in the state of Massachusetts
  63. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  64. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  65. Davis-Bacon Act
  66. National Trades Union
  67. Knights of Labor
  68. Harlan County, USA
  69. Blue Collar (1978)
  70. James R. Hoffa in "Hoffa" (1992)
  71. On The Waterfront (1954)
  72. F.I.S.T. (1978)
  73. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  74. Western Federation of Miners
  75. Samuel Gompers
  76. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
  77. Columbus, Ohio in 1886
  78. 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
  79. New York City in 1882
  80. Elizabeth Chambers Morgan
  81. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
  82. Mary E. Kenney
  83. Triangle Shirtwaist
  84. Tony Boyle (mineworkers leader)
  85. Women's Trade Union League
  86. International Labor Organization (ILO)
  87. 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
  88. Robert F. Wagner
  89. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  90. John L. Lewis and Philip Murray
  91. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  92. Ceaser Chavez
  93. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), UNITE HERE, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), and the United Farm Workers (UFW)
  94. In 2009 UNITE HERE, in 2010 the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA)
  95. "Silkwood" (1983)
  96. Made in L.A.
  97. State of Wisconsin
  98. Florence Reece
  99. Yes, better known as Jack London
  100. The home of Maria and Pietro Botto, silk workers from Italy
  101. International Federation of Actors, International Federation of Musicians, and UNI Media, Entertainment and Arts
  102. Trade unionist Sol Stetin, 1910-2005. He served as President of the Textile Workers Union of America
  103. Mary Kehew
  104. The "Female Labor Reform Association", to demand a reduction to a 10-hour workday, improve safety conditions in the mills, and womens rights
  105. In all kinds of weather, workers would show every morning at the various piers to gather around the boss (foreman) hoping to be picked to work that day. Within that process workers had to endure "discrimination, favoritism, and kickbacks"
  106. Workers going out on strike and walking the picket line
  107. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
  108. Sidney Hillman
  109. National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (National later changed to International, IBEW)
  110. Yes, from December 1935 thru September 1936

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