The American labor leader Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the most significant single figure in the history of the American labor movement. He founded and was the first president of the American Federa...
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Samuel Gompers is best remembered as a trade-labor organizer, statesman, loyal friend of the working class, and fierce advocate for workers' rights and protections. Perhaps because he came of age in t...
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Jennie Rivera works 10-hour days taking care of children in her lower Manhattan apartment and has never had a paid vacation or earned more than $13,000 a year.Rivera hopes that will change now that...
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Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers
Home-based child care workers seek union
