| 1946 |
|
Largest strike wave in U.S. history |
| 1947 |
|
Taft-Hartley Act restricts union members' activities |
| 1949 |
|
First two of 11 unions with Communist leaders are purged from CIO |
| 1952 |
|
George Meany and Walter Reuther become presidents of AFL and CIO, respectively; |
| |
|
In
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer
, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Truman’s seizure of steel mills to prevent a strike during a time of war to be unconstitutional. |
| 1955 |
|
AFL and CIO merge; George Meany becomes president |
| 1959 |
|
Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin) passed |
| 1962 |
|
President John Kennedy's order gives federal workers the right to bargain
National Farm Workers Association Created
|
| 1963 |
|
March on Washington for jobs and Justice Equal Pay Act bans wage discrimination based on gender
|
| 1964 |
|
Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination
|
| 1965 |
|
AFL-CIO forms A. Philip Randolph Institute |
| |
|
César Chávez and Dolores Huerta form the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers and start the grape boycott
|
| 1968 |
|
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., during sanitation workers' strike |
Progress and new challenges
|
| 1970 |
|
Occupational Safety and Health Act passed |
| 1972 |
|
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists formed |
| 1973 |
|
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement founded |
| 1974 |
|
Coalition of Labor Union Women founded |
| 1981 |
|
President Reagan breaks air traffic controllers’s strike AFL-CIO rallies 400,000 in Washington on Solidarity Day |
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