The Growth of Labor Unions ✊

👷‍♀️ 🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how labor unions developed
• Describe how labor unions are organized
• Summarize the main challenges facing unions today
• Describe how government attitudes toward labor unions have changed

⏰ What We Did

• Used instructional notes from Lesson 10, Part 2: The Growth of Labor Unions, to answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define labor union, open shop, and closed shop.
2. What conditions led to the development of labor unions?
3. How do national unions support local unions?
4. What are the main reasons for declining union membership? How have unions responded?
5. In your opinion, how should the government interact with unions? Should it be supportive, regulatory, or confrontational? Explain your answer.

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 10, Part 3: Unions and Management, before class on Monday