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Population How the Native American population changed since the last census. View More. View All. In , the number of unionized workers dropped, while the share of union members increased The share of employees in unions increased from Embed on your website.
How has union membership changed since ? The union membership rate is higher in the public sector than in the private sector. The demographics of union members. Black employees are likelier to be in unions than those of other races and ethnicities. Union members in the skilled trades remained overwhelmingly native-born White Protestant males throughout the 19th century.
These higher-paid workers had the funds to pay union dues and contribute to strike funds. They were reluctant to organize unskilled Irish and Italian immigrants, and also excluded women and Black people. Black workers were often paid lower wages, which made White workers fear they would be replaced by cheaper labor. Excluded groups organized their own unions. Black caulkers in the shipbuilding industry held a strike at the Washington Navy Yard in Women tailors, shoe binders, mill workers, and Black laundresses formed their own unions.
And in , the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which had been organizing in the telephone industry, accepted telephone operators that were primarily women.
Winning gains for all workers and citizens—such as a shorter workday and a minimum wage—has been a key part of union activity. In , the National Labor Union was created with the goal of limiting the workday for federal employees to eight hours. However, the private sector was much harder for unions to penetrate.
With a continual flood of immigrants coming into the country, the price of labor declined. One group was often pitted against another to keep wages down. When Irish workers won raises in pay from the railroads, for example, Chinese workers were brought in to replace them. In , more than 2, Chinese workers, who were grading and digging tunnels for the transcontinental railroad, simultaneously threw down their picks and shovels, protesting their lower pay compared with White workers.
Their strike failed after the railroad owner cut off all food and supplies. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Filipino and Japanese sugar plantation workers went on strike in Hawaii, as did Chinese garment workers in San Francisco and New York City.
Poor pay and working conditions led to work stoppages by the Pullman Railroad Workers and the United Mine Workers, but both strikes were broken up by the government.
Eugene Debs, leader of the American Railway Union in the strike against the Pullman Company, was unable to convince members of his union to accept Black railroad workers. Blacks in turn served as strikebreakers for the Pullman Company and for the owners of Chicago meatpacking companies whose stockyard workers struck in sympathy.
Philip Randolph and other railroad sleeping-car porters who successfully unionized were among the leaders of the civil rights movement in the s. In , A. Randolph ultimately succeeded in his quest in Unions worked not only for improvements in pay and working conditions but also for labor reforms. The Clayton Antitrust Act of allowed employees to strike and boycott their employers; it was followed by the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act PCA of and the Fair Labor Standards Acts of , which mandated a minimum wage, extra pay for overtime work, and basic child labor laws.
During the s, they lost some influence, but the Great Depression quickly reversed this trend, with workers turning to their local trade unions to find employment and protection. Union membership grew exponentially as the Depression wore on. The Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO , established in the s, organized large numbers of Black workers into labor unions for the first time.
There were more than , African Americans in the CIO in , many of them officers of union locals. During World War II, the influence of labor unions was somewhat curtailed. Some unions, such as those in the defense industry, were forbidden by the government to strike because of the impediment it would present to wartime production. But the end of the war saw a wave of strikes in many industries; union power and membership as a percent of employment reached a high point during this period, from the s to the s.
Some of the founding trade unionists were socialists, communists, or anarchists interested in leveraging union organization into broader revolutionary change. Others focused solely on bread-and-butter issues. This and many other provisions of the act such as the ban of sympathy strikes or boycotts led to a weakening of the union movement.
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