But thereâs sweet irony in seeing founders of a recruitment startup face similar challenges. Iâve been wrestling with this process myself, spending most of the past 2 months making our first key hires for RecruitLoop in San Francisco.
Library of Congress. Uriah Stephens (1821-82) founded the Knights of Labor, the first national industrial union in the United States, in Philadelphia in December 1869 and led the organization until he resigned his post as Grand Master Workman in 1879.
The American Federation of Labor was founded in 1886 and led by  Samuel Gompers. The union resulted when groups of disenfranchised  craft workers from the Knights of Labor f â¦ ormed a new union.During  the first half of the 20th century, the AFL was the largest labor  union in the country.Donna Halper.he methods of the American Federation of Labor were boycotts and  strikes. They wanted higher wages and improvements in working  conditions including shorter work days.