Who was the first labor union to welcome blacks women and immigrants?

Jorge Luis Chinea has written: 'Race and labor in the Hispanic Caribbean' -- subject(s): Alien labor, Blacks, Economic conditions, Ethnic relations, History, Immigrants, Race relations, Social conditions, West Indians ...

Immigrants in the 1880's did not oppose their low wages. The central job of a union is to limit the supply of labor from which employers are allowed to hire. Immigrants raised the supply and thus lowered the cost of labor. ...

Immigrants contributed greatly to organized labor. Organized labor contributes to price controls ...

The knights of labor helped workers including blacks women and child workers ...

Yes, they accepted women, blacks, skilled and unskilled laborers. The American Federation of Labor did not. ...

they did labor by forcing them or they'll kill them

Because they were cheap labor (it was closer to indentured servitude than wage-labor) ...

took jobs from us citizens

Northerners did not want to compete for gold with slaveholders using slave labor or with free blacks. ...

Slave labor is obviously done for and by slaves in the eighteenth century to do work in order to make a living. As for free labor, is done by a freeman, it can be considered as free blacks to do work or labor, but they have to be free. -Darc Lay ...

Federal and state labor laws do not concern immigration. Illegals immigrants are not eligible for employment and matters involving illegals are to be handled by INS. This is how it works on paper, not how it works in reality. ...

Blacks were enslaved and forced to work on the plantations for little or no money. ...

Blacks and Native Americans

Low-paying, hard-labor jobs

They argued that most immigrants would work for low wages, which would take the jobs from them. ...

His first labor was to kill the Nemean Lion.

representing an increase in the available labor force

The exploitation of foreign immigrants for cheap labor is common in America today. ...

More than 800,000 European immigrants arrived during the Civil War and provided labor for factories and farms. ...

The 1864 Labor Law was passed to encourage immigrants to come to America to become laborers,since war efforts(civil war) had reduced the labor supply. ...

Labor unions oppose immigration and immigrants because it believes these people take jobs away from U.S. citizens. ChaCha ...

The Freedman's Bureau Bill in 1865 was headed by O.O Howard. It was the first modern government social welfare agency. This bill opened up Schools for Freedom. These schools allowed for the blacks to learn to read and write. The blacks wanted to make something of their lives but were never able to. The Freedman's Bureau protected the blacks during Reconstruction and allowed for them to make a transition from slavery to society. It also allowed for them to get jobs. Labor...

Heather Booth has written: 'Guestworkers or immigrants?' -- subject(s): Alien labor, Manpower policy, Population 'Second generation migrants in Western Europe' -- subject(s): Emigration and immigration, Statistical services, Statistics services 'The migration process in Britain and West Germany' -- subject(s): Alien labor, Blacks, Emigration and immigration, Manpower policy, Population ...

Labor Day is on September first when the first Monday of September is on the first. ...

Blacks who did not have jobs were made to serve time as forced laborers. /D ...