"Do Something for Someone
Who will Never be Able to Repay You"
LABOR HISTORY:
Trade unions formed the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Organizations, later becoming the AFL. Under the leadership of Samuel Gompers and Peter McGuire, the AFL became the most influential labor organization in the nation (1881)
Women's Trade Union League founded, Chicago {1903}
Jimmy Carter-era OSHA publishes standard reducing permissible exposure of lead, protecting 835,000 workers from damage to nervous, urinary and reproductive systems (1978)