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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.
The first American labor unions dated from before 1800. The first was founded in 1794 in Philadelphia, by a group of shoemakers and called the Federal Society of Journeymen Co â¦ rdwainers (shoemakers). Workmen's Associations became the backbone of Andrew Jackson's supporters.t came to be when workers in Philadelphia organized the Carpenter's Company; consisting of a group of shoemakers. The nation's first union was formed in 1794.