One of the driving forces in immigration to the United States is the search for good jobs. Cabinetġ963 Equal Pay Act bans wage discrimination based on genderġ974 Coalition of Labor Union Women foundedĢ009 President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination The Labor Movement and Immigrant Rights
secretary of labor, the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. From that point forward, the labor movement has played a central role in the advancement of women’s rights.ġ834 First turnout of “mill girls” in Lowell, Massachusetts, to protest wage cutsġ843 Lowell Female Labor Reform Association begins public petitioning for 10-hour dayġ871 After her dress shop is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones begins working as a labor organizerġ903 Women’s Trade Union League formed at the AFL conventionġ909 “Uprising of the 20,000” female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditionsġ911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York kills nearly 150 workersġ912 Bread and Roses strike begun by immigrant women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, ended with 23,000 men, women and children on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket lineġ933 Frances Perkins becomes the U.S. Some of the earliest organizing efforts in the United States were young women working at mills.
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