This Day in Labor History
On December 5, 1997, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiffs in the appeal of a paltry ruling in Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co, and ordered a.
On November 21, 1896, dock workers in Hamburg, Germany went on strike. One of the major working class struggles in German history, the conservative leadership of that nation went ballistic.
On October 14, 1948, a rogue anti-militant thug named Jesus Diaz de Leon took over the Sindicato de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros de la República Mexicana, the independent Mexican railroad union with.
On October 12, 1962, a powerful storm, a former typhoon that was now a post-tropical storm, came ashore in western Washington and Vancouver Island in Canada. Its size and power.
On September 19, 1935, a Soviet coal miner named Alexey Stakhanov mines 227 tons of coal. His work that day, beatified by the Soviet state as the saint to guide.
On September 12, 1934, the Rhode Island National Guard opened fire on a group of people loosely associated with striking textile workers in nearby mills who were throwing rocks and.
On August 16, 2012, the South African Police Service killed 34 striking platinum miners. The Marikana Massacre was the most lethal use of force against civilians by the South African.
On August 3, 1931, the Unemployed Council in Chicago led black residents in protecting the furniture of a 72 year old resident of South Side being evicted from her home.
