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Legal precedents. British unionism received its legal foundation in the Trade-Union Act of 1871. In the United States the same effect was achieved, albeit more slowly and uncertainly, by a series of court decisions that whittled away at the use of injunctions, conspiracy laws, and other devices against unions.
One of the American Federation of Labor?s most significant early achievements was the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914, formally granting workers the right to strike. The U.S. [ Supreme Court, however, ruled that the act did not permit secondary boycotts by sympathetic unions.t one time, more than fifty separate unions, with member rolls numbering in the tens of millions, belonged to the AFL. The American Federation of Labor is supported by a portion of the dues that union members pay. The unions in the AFL pursue their own policies to benefit each union?s members.