civil rights timeline
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Updated: 26 Nov 2017
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Created byMeghan Marie
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Commonwealth v. Hunt decision frees unions from some prosecutionsNew Hampshire enacts first state 10-hour-day lawErdman Act prohibits discrimination against railroad workers because of union membership and provides for mediation of railway labor disputesAnthracite strike arbitrated after President Theodore Roosevelt intervenesBill creating Department of Labor passes at the end of congressional sessionWoodrow Wilson takes office as president and appoints the first secretary of labor, William B. Wilson of the Mine WorkersRailway Labor Act sets up procedures to settle railway labor disputes and forbids discrimination against union membersDavis-Bacon Act provides for prevailing wages on publicly funded construction projectsNorris-LaGuardia Act prohibits federal injunctions in most labor disputesNational Labor Relations Act passedSocial Security Act passedFair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour weekTaft-Hartley Act restricts union members’ activitiesLabor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin) passedPresident John F. Kennedy’s order gives federal workers the right to bargainEqual Pay Act bans wage discrimination based on genderCivil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discriminationPresident George W. Bush pledges to strip collective bargaining rights from 170,000 civil servants in the new Transportation Security Administration and denies bargaining rights to airport-security screening personnelPresident Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination
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