Tag: labor history
This Week In Labor History September 4-10
SEPTEMBER 4
1894 – Twelve thousand New York tailors strike over sweatshop conditions.
1949 – More than 140 attendees at a benefit for a civil rights...
This Week In Labor History August 28-September 3
AUGUST 28
1963 – The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech march —...
This Week In Labor History August 14-20
AUGUST 14
1935 – President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system...
This Week In Labor History August 7-13
AUGUST 7
1894 – Eugene Debs and three other trade unionists arrested after Pullman Strike.
1983 – Some 675,000 employees struck ATT Corp. over wages, job...
This Week in Labor History July 31-August 6
JULY 31
1970 –Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a two-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions,...
This Week in Labor History July 24-30
JULY 24
1968 – The United Auto Workers and the Teamsters form the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA), later to be joined by several smaller...
This Week in Labor History July 17-23
JULY 17
1944 – Two ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It...
This Week in Labor History July 10-16
JULY 10
1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist, born.
1894 – Some 14,000 federal and state troops finally succeed in putting down...
This week in labor history: July 3-9
JULY 3
1835 – Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., go on strike for an 11-hour day and six-day week. A compromise...
This week in labor history: June 26-July 2
JUNE 26
1894 – Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers....