  In your groups, form your own student union.  Name it!  List your grievances with Deptford High School, and your union’s demands.  How will you achieve your goals? We’re Not Gonna Take It!

  Many employers disliked/feared unions, and tried to stop them by…  Forbidding union meetings  Firing union organizers  Making new employees sign “yellow dog” contracts Reaction of Employers

  Railway workers protest unfair wage cuts and unsafe working conditions  Violent and unorganized  President Rutherford B Hayes sends in federal troops to put down the strikes The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

 The Haymarket Riot  Haymarket, Chicago, 1886  May 1 – Workers mount national demonstration for 8 hour work day  May 3 – Police break up fight between strikers and scabs  Scab – Term for a worker called in to replace striking workers  May 4 – Protestors joined by anarchists. A bomb goes off, killing a cop, dozens more die

 The Homestead Strike  1892 – Andrew Carnegie’s partner Henry Frick cuts workers’ wages at Carnegie steel  Workers union organize a strike, and Frick calls in the Pinkertons, leading to the deaths of several workers  The strike is called off after a failed assassination attempt on Frick

 Pullman Strike  Another strike by union workers from the railroads  Railway owners turn to the government for help  Judge rules against the unions, citing the Sherman Antitrust Act.