A Timeline of Events in Modern American Labor Relations
||President Martin Van Buren facilitates a settlement of a
strike by shipyard workers, the first government mediated labor
settlement in America.| ||President Martin Van Buren signs an
Executive Order providing a 10-hour workday for employees on
federal public works projects.| ||Movement toward building a
national coalition of workers’ unions begins with the National
Labor Union.| ||The term “collective bargaining” is first used
by Mrs. Sidney Webb, a British labor historian.| ||The first
strike with national impact occurs as the American Railway Union
launches a sympathy strike with striking workers of the Pullman
Company.| ||In a message to Congress following a strike in the
anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, President Theodore
Roosevelt recognizes the public interest in labor-management
relations.| ||The federal mediation function is born. The U.S.
Conciliation Service is created at the Department of Labor.|
||After major rail strikes of the earl