On February 11, 1918, the Presidential Mediation Commission began hearings over conditions in the Chicago stockyards. This was a huge win for the Chicago Federation of Labor’s interracial unionism and.
On January 23, 1976, The Guardian ran a story about a group of aerospace workers at the Lucas Aerospace Corporation actively fighting their company's restructuring plans that would layoff thousands.
On January 12, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9017, creating the National War Labor Board. The goal of this board was to mediate all labor issues until.
On December 26, 1996, the government of South Korea issued new repressive labor laws. The South Korean working class rose up in revolt, leading to an enormous strike that challenged.
On December 10, 1906, workers at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York, conducted a sit-down strike. This is the first known sit-down strike in American history. We don't.
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 11, 1952, management at an Armour meatpacking in Fort Worth, Texas took down the signs for segregated bathrooms on the job after signing a new contract with the.
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.
