On October 10, 1936, movie projector unionists in New York lobbed tear gas into a theatre on Times Square in New York. Although unrelated to striking American Federation of Musicians.
On October 4, 1936, British fascists decided to hold a march in London. The British labor movement and others on the left who despised these fascists bastards showed up ready.
On September 14, 1889, Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Working.
On September 10, 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike. Led by Karen Lewis, a charismatic union president who had recently taken over the CTU and revitalized it on.
On August 19, 1969, sanitation workers in Oklahoma City went on strike. This civil rights oriented strike built on the successful Memphis strike the previous year that had become famous.
On August 16, 1937, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to National Federation of Federal Employees head Luther Steward of his ambivalence over public sector unionism. Conservatives have often cited that.
On July 31, 1835, workers at the Washington Naval Yard went on strike over the ten-hour day and recent moves to limit their lunch privileges. This was the first serious.
On July 19, 1935, leftist housewives in Detroit, led by a woman named Mary Zuk, began a meat boycott in outrage over high prices. This remarkable moment demonstrates the centrality.
