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• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 11, 2011 11:36 AM

• AFL-CIO defeats legislation
  1997

  AFL-CIO defeats legislation giving the president the ability to “Fast Track’ trade legislation without assured protection of workers’ rights and the environment

• Occupational Safety and Health Act
  1970

  Occupational Safety and Health Act passed.

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
  1968

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., during sanitation workers' strike

• AFL and CIO merge
  1955

  AFL and CIO merge; George Meany becomes president

• Taft-Hartley Act
  1947

  Taft-Hartley Act restricts union members' activities

• Largest strike wave
  1946

  Largest strike wave in U.S. history

• Fair Labor Standards Act
  1938

  Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

• AFL and CIO create labor's Non-Partisan League
  1936

  AFL and CIO create labor's Non-Partisan League and help President Roosevelt win re-election to a second term

• National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act
  1935

  National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL

• New Deal programs
  1933

  President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress

• Stock market crashes
  1929

  Stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent; Great Depression begins

• Railway Labor Act
  1926

  Railway Labor Act sets up procedures to settle railway labor disputes and forbids discrimination against union members

• 19th Amendment
  1920

  19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote

• One of every five workers walked out in great strike wave
  1919

  One of every five workers walked out in great strike wave, including national clothing coal and steel strikes; a general strike in Seattle; and a police strike in Boston International Labor Organization founded in France

• AFL endorses Democrat
  1908

  AFL endorses Democrat William Jennings Bryan for President

• AFL and National Civic Federation promote trade agreements
  1900

  AFL and National Civic Federation promote trade agreements with employers U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy.

• Boycott of Pullman
  1894

  Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads