Wayground- Indust. Lsn4: Labor Movement

What is collective bargaining?

• Negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter workweeks.

• A process where only employers decide employee wages.

• A government policy to regulate all business contracts.

• A method for individual workers to negotiate directly with customers.

Who was Samuel Gompers?

• Union leader.

• Famous scientist.

• Renowned artist.

• Political philosopher.

What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

• Name of union led by Gompers.

• A political party in the 1800s.

• A famous American law firm.

• A government agency for labor.

Who was Eugene V. Debs?

• Leader of the American Railway Union, an industrial union.

• Founder of the American Federation of Labor.

• President of the United States during World War I.

• Inventor of the telephone.

What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

• Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the Wobblies.

• A government agency regulating industry.

• A political party formed in the 1920s.

• A coalition of business owners.

Who was Mary Harris Jones?

• Organizer for United Mine Workers.

• First female astronaut.

• Inventor of the telephone.

• Famous jazz musician.

Unions were able to help workers because:

• they allowed workers to join together to negotiate for better conditions.

• they prevented workers from working together.

• they made it harder for workers to get jobs.

• they only helped business owners.

How did collective bargaining benefit workers?

• Collective bargaining allowed workers to negotiate for better wages, hours, and working conditions.

• Collective bargaining forced workers to accept lower wages and longer hours.

• Collective bargaining eliminated the need for any workplace regulations.

• Collective bargaining only benefited business owners, not workers.

What was the effect of strikes on businesses and workers?

• Strikes often disrupted business operations, caused financial losses, and sometimes led to violence. Workers sometimes gained improvements, but strikes could also result in job loss or punishment.

• Strikes always resulted in immediate business growth and higher profits for all involved.

• Strikes had no impact on businesses or workers and were generally ignored by both.

• Strikes only benefited business owners and never affected workers in any way.

Why were there so many strikes between the 1870s and the 1890s?

• There were many strikes because workers were trying to improve their wages and working conditions, and businesses often resisted these changes, leading to frequent conflicts.

• There were many strikes because workers wanted to reduce the number of holidays.

• There were many strikes because businesses encouraged workers to protest for fun.

• There were many strikes because workers were seeking to increase taxes on businesses.