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.
Erie, Colorado claims the first mining labor union in Colorado, which was the Knights of Labor, Local No.771, established in 1878. The Knights of Labor opposed the creation of the National Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers during the 1880s. The first strike was called in 1885 by the Knights of Labor.