Answer:
When it did organize women workers, most often it did so to protect men's jobs and earning power and not to improve the conditions, lives, or wages of women workers. In response, most women workers remained outside the labor movement. In 1900, only 3.3% of working women were organized into unions.
Founded: December 8, 1886
Key people: Samuel Gompers; John McBride; William Green; George Meany
Merged into: AFL–CIO
Date dissolved: December 4, 1955
