Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: June 19-25
JUNE 19
1912 – Eight-hour work day adopted for federal employees.
1917 – AFL President Sam Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker sign an agreement...
This week in labor history: June 5-11
JUNE 5
1976 – Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland...
This week in labor history: May 29-June 3
MAY 29
1941 – Animators working for Walt Disney begin what was to become a successful five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen...
This week in labor history: May 22-28
MAY 22
1895 – Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill., for role in Pullman strike.
1920 – Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 gives federal...
This week in labor history: May 15-21
MAY 15
1906 – U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove...
This week in labor history: May 1-7
MAY 1
1830 – Mary Harris “Mother” Jones born in County Cork, Ireland.
1883 – Cigar makers in Cincinnati warn there could be a strike in...
This week in labor history: April 24-30
APRIL 25
1886 – The New York Times declares the struggle for an eight-hour workday to be “un-American” and calls public demonstrations for the shorter...
This week in labor history: April 17-23
APRIL 17
1905 – The Supreme Court holds that a maximum-hours law for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional under the due process clause of...
This week in labor history: April 10-16
APRIL 10
1917 – A total of 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the...
This week in labor history: April 3-9
APRIL 3
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous “I’ve...