On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's Operation Dixie campaign. In the aftermath of the World War II, the Congress of Industrial...
This Day in Labor History
On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town's entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre,.
On this date in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded. Led by A. Philip Randolph, this labor union became the most important civil rights organization in mid-20th.
On August 23, 1927, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrant anarchists by the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the murder of two men in a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree. Although the two men may or may not have...
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before.
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.
On August 3, 1981, the nation's air traffic controllers went on strike in arguably the greatest disaster in the history of American organized labor. Ronald Reagan's busting of the union led to a new period of corporate anti-union attacks and served as a precursor to...
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of.
On July 11, 1892 striking silver miners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho blew up the Frisco Mill, a mine building filled with guards, after getting into a firefight with Pinkertons, killing.
A digest of This Day in Labor History July 6, 1892--The Homestead StrikeJuly 12, 1917--The Bisbee DeportationJuly 14, 1877--The Great Railroad StrikeSeptember 9, 1739--The Stono RebellionSeptember 17, 1989--The Pittston StrikeOctober 26, 1676--Bacon's RebellionNovember 5, 1916--The Everett MassacreNovember 9, 1935--Creation of the CIONovember 11, 1919--The Centralia...
On this date in 1892, the People's Party held its first convention in Omaha, Nebraska. Building upon two decades of rural labor's deep dissatisfaction with the Gilded Age, the Populists.
On July 3, 1835, children employed in Paterson, New Jersey's textile mills went on strike, demanding an 11 hour day and 6 day week. The textile factory system that had.