On October 23, 1976, International Woodworkers of America Local 3-101 in Everett, Washington had its monthly union meeting. Big deal, you might be thinking. Locals have meetings all the time and nothing much happens at them. And not a whole lot happened at this lunchtime...
This Day in Labor History
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.
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 century America, arguably as important as the NAACP. Racism shut most jobs to black people...
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.
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 War II. While the Bracero Program helped fill the labor shortages, it also opened up...
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.
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 two mine employee and taking about 60 mine guards prisoner. This led the governor of...
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.
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.