The Progressive Movement Challenged The Robber Barons Of The Gilded Age

3. WHO WANTS A GOVERNMENT BY AND FOR CORPORATIONS ?THE SAME PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU RIGHT TO WORK! DAH!

4. Beginning with Teddy Roosevelt and until Ronald Reagan our nation was on a path to expand rights and improve the lives of the American people. The Progressive Movement Challenged The Robber Barons Of The Gilded Age “It is essential that there be an organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.” “The object of government is the welfare of the people.” Theodore Roosevelt

5. ENDING THE LONG HISTORY OF FEDERAL JUDGES BLOCKING UNION ORGGANIZING AND STRIKES WITH INJUNCTIONS The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 outlawed the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes by federal courts. THE RIGHT OF WORKERS TO ORGANIZE AND JOIN A UNION PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW • The National Labor Relations Act 1935 (NLRA, the "Wagner Act") Private sector workers CAN ORGANIZE a union and establishes the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold elections. Makes it ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO: • Discriminate against union workers • Retaliate against them for engaging in organizing campaigns or other "concerted activities", • To form "company unions" • To refuse to engage in collective bargaining with a certified union

6. National Labor Relations Act 1935

7. FDR’s NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE, CHILD LABOR, OVERTIME AND MAXIMUM HOURS • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 • 44-hour seven-day workweek • established a national minimum wage • guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, • prohibited most employment of minors • in "oppressive child labor"

8. The Union movementempowered all workers Caused a political backlash from white supremacists Jim Crow economic, social and political order in the Slave states. The Dixiecrats/Republicans, KKK and the John Birch Society saw no place for blacks, Catholics or Jews in our nation.

10. FDR’s January 11, 1944 message to the Congress AMERICA’s SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

13. REPUBLICANS AND DIXIECRATS TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS PASS TAFT-HARTLEY OVER TRUMAN’S VETO. • The Taft-Hartley Act 1947 • ("Labor-Management Relations Act") • Loosened some restrictions on employers, • New limitations on unions. • Prohibits jurisdictional strikes and • Secondary boycotts by unions, and • Authorizes individual states to pass "right-to-work laws", • Regulates pension & other union benefit plans • Federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce collective bargaining agreements. • Changed NLRB election procedures in favor of employers

17. Wagner act passed in 1937 Union membership increased from 12% to 35% of the workforce Taft -Hartley passed in 1947 Membership down from 35% to 12%. Reagan breaks air traffic controllers union in 1981 Corporations and politicians are emboldened to bust unions 2005 2012 22 States With Right To Work Laws 24 States With Right To Work Laws

18. NEXT TARGETS • MISSOURI • PENSYLVANIA • NEW HAMPSHIRE

19. George Orwell’s book 1984 served as a model for the creator of the term ‘Right to Work’

24. VANCE MUSE Texas Oil industry lobbyist and bigot, hated FDR, The New Deal and unions. Right to Work Law movement founder

25. "Right-to-Work" laws starts in 1936 with Vance Muse He opposed women's suffrage, child labor laws, integration and growing efforts to change the Southern political order, as represented in the threat of Roosevelt's New Deal. Muse founded the Christian American Association with backing from Southern oil companies and industrialists DuPont brothers, J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil, Alfred Sloan of General Motors to fight unions and the New Deal. Labor the CIO in particular opposed Jim Crow and demanded an end to segregation. Unions were an important political ally to FDR and the New Deal. In 1945 Texas' right-to-work bill was signed into law. Trumpeting the message equating union growth with race-mixing and communism his work led to the passage of the nation's first right-to-work laws in 1944. In all, 14 states passed such legislation by 1947, when Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act passed 11 years later, Kansas also passed a right-to-work law, with the support of Texas-born energy businessman Fred Koch, who also viewed unions as vessels for communism and integration. Koch's sons Charles and David went on to form the Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity, which pushed for the Michigan right-to-work measure,

26. The Transition From Vance Muse to Fred Koch father ofCharles And David Koch Fred Koch’s goal was the same as Vance Muse’s: REVERSING THE NEW DEAL union-busting, stripping government benefits and eliminating taxes on the rich. Koch was a leader of the Kansas Right-to-Work when the law passed in 1958 Koch co-founded the John Birch Society with eleven other industrialists, The John Birch Society taught that: • President Eisenhower was a Communist agent taking orders from Moscow; • The Civil Rights movement was a Communist conspiracy and • Martin Luther King took direct orders from Moscow; The founder of the National Right To Work Committee in mid-1950s, Reed Larson, came from Koch’s base in Wichita, Kansas — headquarters of Koch Industries. Koch teamed up with Reed Larson to pass Kansas’ Right-to-Work law, and Reed Larson’s "National Right to Work Committee" intertwined itself with Fred Koch’s John Birch Society.

31. THE GOALS OF THE KOCH BROTHERSLimiting Worker and Consumer Rights, Privatizing Government Services, and Pushing "Free" TradeThrough the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC)Global Corporations and State Politicians are Voting to Try to Rewrite State Laws.

33. The Right Wing Agenda Brought To Your State By ALEC

40. Year Before the Stock Market Crash Year Before the Stock Market Crash Growth of the Middle Class FDR’s Top Tax Rate Over 90% Unions are Growing New Deal & G.I. Bill Promotes Education & Housing Reagan Cuts Top Tax Rate to 28% Fires Striking Workers Permits Media Monopolies

50. "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy. But we cannot have both." — Justice Louis D. Brandeis