Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations Act. Their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership, and on representing their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions. Larger labor unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and electioneering at the state and federal level.
Hotel union workers strike with the slogan "One job should be enough"
Political cartoon showing organized labor marching towards progress, while a shortsighted employer tries to stop labor (1913)
Labor union voting by federal workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1948)
Union members rally to reject union busting in New Orleans (2019)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s.
The Republican Party hosted its first Republican National Convention at Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia from June 17 to 19, 1856, nominating John C. Frémont as its presidential candidate in the 1856 presidential election.
Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president (1861–1865) and first Republican to hold the office
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president (1869–1877)