The nation’s first black labor convention was held in Washington, D.C., with 214 delegates forming the Colored National Labor Union - 1869
Ford Motor Company raises wages from $2.40 for a 9-hour day to $5 for an 8-hour day in effort to keep the unions out - 1914
Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins. Ten of the 11 deaths on the job came when safety netting beneath the site—the first-ever use of such equipment—failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen other workers were saved by the net over the course of construction. They became members of the (informal) Halfway to Hell Club - 1933
(Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper. It takes the reader through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and describes numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen [and at times nineteen] autonomous and highly diverse affiliates.)
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Today in #LaborHistory: Jan 5 -via- www.unionist.com
The nation’s first black labor convention was held in Washington, D.C., with 214 delegates forming the Colored National Labor Union - 1869
"The Colored National Labor Union (CNLU) was a post–Civil War attempt by African American laborers to achieve collective representation. Before the war, free blacks had had some success at labor organization." - from www.answers.com/topic/colored-national-labor-union#ixzz2H8v0lJb0
"In a speech delivered at the Colored National Labor convention, Langston drew a picture of the diverse American workforce within a frame of unionism, politics, and common interests." - from http://thechinesequestion.wordpress.com/tag/colored-national-labor-union/
"The end of the American Civil War and the resultant emancipation of slaves produced economic changes, which brought about a growth in interest in trade unions." - from http://modernhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-this-day-in-history-colored-national.html
The nation’s first black labor convention was held in Washington, D.C., with 214 delegates forming the Colored National Labor Union - 1869
"The Colored National Labor Union (CNLU) was a post–Civil War attempt by African American laborers to achieve collective representation. Before the war, free blacks had had some success at labor organization." - from www.answers.com/topic/colored-national-labor-union#ixzz2H8v0lJb0
"In a speech delivered at the Colored National Labor convention, Langston drew a picture of the diverse American workforce within a frame of unionism, politics, and common interests." - from http://thechinesequestion.wordpress.com/tag/colored-national-labor-union/
"The end of the American Civil War and the resultant emancipation of slaves produced economic changes, which brought about a growth in interest in trade unions." - from http://modernhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-this-day-in-history-colored-national.html
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