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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.
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∙ 11y agothey had opposed the Mexican immigrants because they did not know any English. the Americans had no way to communicate with them.
Nope. Unions did not care whether workers spoke only a foreign language. If that was a problem, it was a prob for the EMPLOYER>
Unions oppose immigrants because they increase the supply of labor and lower the cost of labor. More competition for each available job. And if unions strike, replacement is easier.
all those answers r dumb especially the one above mine its because the believed that immigrants took jobs from native-born americans
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∙ 12y agoImmigrants were willing to work for relatively low wages
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Did labor unions oppose immigrants?
they had opposed the Mexican immigrants because they did not know any English. the Americans had no way to communicate with them. Nope. Unions did not care whether workers spoke only a foreign language. If that was a problem, it was a prob for the EMPLOYER> Unions oppose immigrants because they increase the supply of labor and lower the cost of labor. More competition for each available job. And if unions strike, replacement is easier. all those answers r dumb especially the one above mine its because the believed that immigrants took jobs from native-born americans
Were labor unions strong before 1880?
No, labor unions did not become major factors until the late 1880s and turn of the century.
Why did some labor union oppose immigration?
Some labor unions opposed immigration because their members believed immigrants would take jobs away from native-born americans.
What do labor unions most strongly oppose?
strikebreakers
Which do labor unions most strongly oppose?
strikebreakers
Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
The Chinese
What organizations was one of the largest unions in the 1880s and fought for an eight-hour workday?
Knights of Labor~apex
What working conditions did labor unions oppose?
Poor,hazardous and overbearing.
After the industrial war many poor immigrants joined?
Labor Unions.
In the West who were the immigrants who built the railroads and bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?
Chinese Railroad men
Why did labor unions see the arrival of the Irish immigrants as a threat?
There were no legal unions in the 1840's when the Irish diaspora started. US workers saw that new English speaking immigrants desperate for work were a bigger competition for jobs than were non-English speakers.
What labor unions exist today?
the three unions were to help immigrants to get longer work hours, and better pay. their names were the civil union- the sate union and the - york union
