1. Pick up a handout on your way in but DON’T START WORKING ON IT YET!

1. Hi • 1. Pick up a handout on your way in but DON’T START WORKING ON IT YET! • 2. Study guide opened to page 90. • FYI: Typo with stocks project; Burger King’s symbol is BKW not BWK. *****IF YOU ARE COMPLETING THE WOODY GUTHRIE MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE UNIT 4 PROJECT AND YOU WISH TO TURN IT IN MONDAY BEFORE WE FINISH LEARNING GOAL 8, THE “MIGRANT MOTHER” PICTURE GOES WITH LEARNING GOAL 8***** “Union Through and Through” -Rob Mitchell

2. Learning Goal 6 • I will be able to: • List at least 1 argument for why the New Deal was working • List at least 1 argument for why the New Deal was not working • List and explain the primary reason some argued that the New Deal went too far • List and explain the primary reason some argued that the New Deal did not go far enough

3. 4.6 New Deal working New Deal not working New Deal went too far New Deal did not go far enough • More jobs created b/c of it than lost b/c of it • More taxes on businesses = fewer jobs • Unemployment consistently too high (around 20%) and was not ending the Great Depression • Government had too much power, taxes too high to pay for what gov’t wanted to do, businesses not hiring b/c of high taxes and people not spending enough money • Some thought New Deal should provide more • Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth” program • Guarantee everyone minimum income of $5,000/year which would buy a car and allow you to make payments on a house • Who is going to work if more money is taken and given to others? • Who is going to work so someone else can get up to $5,000?! • In order for capitalism to work, there HAS to be a fear of failure

4. So… • Let’s say this was tried in Pennsylvania, a state with 12.75 million people, of which 6.5 million work full time. • To guarantee each of them at least $50,000 per year, $325,000,000,000 ($325 billion dollars) would be needed. • If we were to tax everyone at 50% of their income (highest right now btw is 39.6%) PA workers would have to combine to make $650,000,000,000 ($650 billion). • How hard would you work towards that $650 billion if you were guaranteed $50,000 regardless? • Would you go to school for 10 years and rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan debt to become a doctor? • Or would you try to get an easier job? • In a class of 30, 1,350 points would need to be earned to guarantee everyone an A (45/50 = 90%) • How many of you thought you would work harder for the next test?

5. Complete the handout on page 91. Read the outline on page 92. Work on handout you picked up on your way in. DO NOT USE YOUR NOTES! 

8. What is a union? For what two things do all unions fight? • Group of workers who fight together for (1) better pay and (2) better working conditions

9. Learning Goal 7 • I will be able to: • Summarize why FDR supported worker’s rights to join unions • Explain how and why FDR tried to alter the Supreme Court • Define “court packing” • List reasons both for how the New Deal was a positive for the country and how it was a negative

10. Union Benefits (If it is an improvement in pay, write a “P” next to it and if it is an improvement in working conditions, write a “W” next to it. If it applies to both, write a “PW.”) • Weekends without work • All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks • Paid vacation • Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) • Sick leave • Social Security • Minimum wage • Civil Rights Act/Title VII - prohibits employer discrimination • 8-hour work day • Overtime pay • Child labor laws • Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) • 40-hour work week • Workers’ compensation (workers’ comp) • Unemployment insurance • Pensions • Workplace safety standards and regulations • Employer health care insurance • Collective bargaining rights for employees • Wrongful termination laws • Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) • Whistleblower protection laws • Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) - prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee • Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS) • Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises) • Sexual harassment laws • Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) • Holiday pay • Employer dental, life, and vision insurance • Privacy rights • Pregnancy and parental leave • Military leave • The right to strike • Public education for children • Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 - requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work • Laws ending sweatshops in the United States • CONS: Higher prices, higher taxes, politics

11. Unions Court-packing New Deal legacy • 1935, tried to guarantee minimum wage to workers, declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court • As were many other New Deal Programs (page 87) • In response, FDR and Congress passed the Wagner Act which gave federal protection to unions – FDR = 1st president to support unions Federal Law overrules state laws • Thinking was if Congress can’t guarantee a livable wage to workers, they should be allowed to fight for one on their own Union gives best chance! • 1935, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO…later merged with the American Federation of Labor, so today it’s the AFL-CIO) organized sit down strike against General Motors (occupied factory so can’t sell cars) • FDR sent in federal troops to support the WORKERS! • FDR tried to change the numbers on the Supreme Court • Increase court from 9 justices to 15, since president gets to pick new justices, he’d pick those loyal to him and his proposals will no longer be declared unconstitutional - unsuccessful • Did not get the US out of the Great Depression as promised – some say made it worse b/c too much government and not enough people spending money • Expanded size/power of gov’t; never gone back down • Some programs still around today and quite important! (FDIC, Social Security)

14. Supreme Court – 9 Justices (Judges)

15. Unconstitutional Constitutional

16. COURT PACKING Unconstitutional Constitutional