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.
On June 28, 1946, the CIO's Operation Dixie campaign to organize the textile mills of Kannapolis, North Carolina began. It was a complete failure. We need to look at why..
On June 25, 1943, Congress overrode Franklin Delano Roosevelt's veto of the Smith-Connally Act. Enacted after the United Mine Workers of America went on strike during World War II, the.
On June 5, 1944, white workers at an airplane plant outside of Cincinnati went on strike over Black workers being promoted. Happening a mere day before the U.S. invaded France.
On June 3, 1824, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island factory strike, one of the first strikes in American history, ended. This is a great entry point into the difficulties of labor.
