June 04
Massachusetts becomes the first state to establish a minimum wage - 1912
The House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act. The
legislation allows the President of the United States to intervene in
labor disputes. President Truman vetoed the law but was overridden by
Congress - 1947
The AFL-CIO opens its new headquarters building, in view of the White House - 1956
Gov. Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations
Act, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining
rights. The legislation came after years of effort by the United Farm
Workers union - 1975
[No
man in this century has had more of an impact on the lives of Hispanic
Americans, and especially farmworkers, than the legendary Cesar Chavez. The Fight in the Fields tells of Chavez and his union’s
struggles: to raise farmworker pay; to win union recognition from savagely
resistant grape and lettuce growers; to stop the use of deadly pesticides that
were killing children in the fields. The pacifist Chavez endured several
month-long fasts to counteract what he saw as a growing tendency toward
violence in the farmworker movement, and many think those heroic acts
contributed to his early death, at the age of 64. In the UCS bookstore now.]
June 05
Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration
of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to
form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976
A strike begins at a General Motors Corp. parts factory in Flint, Mich.
that spreads and ultimately forces the closure of GM plants across the
country for seven weeks. The Flint workers were protesting the removal
of key dies from their plant and feared their jobs would be lost. The
company ended the dispute by assuring the plant would remain open until
at least the year 2000 - 1998
June 06
The U.S. Employment Service was created - 1933
A general strike by some 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing,
Mich. shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the
city’s “Labor Holiday.” The strike was precipitated by the arrest of
nine workers, including the wife of the auto workers local union
president: The arrest left three children in the couple’s home
unattended - 1937
U.S.
President Harry S Truman and American Federation of Musicians President
James Petrillo perform a piano duet at the union’s convention in Asbury
Park, NJ. - 1948
Labor Party founding convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio – 1996
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