June 19
Eight-hour work day adopted for federal employees - 1912
AFL President Sam Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker sign an
agreement establishing a three-member board of adjustment to control
wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers employed on
government projects. The agreement protected union wage and hour
standards for the duration of World War I - 1917
A pioneering sit-down strike is conducted by workers at a General
Tire Co. factory in Akron, Ohio. The United Rubber Workers union was
founded a year later. The tactic launched a wave of similar efforts in
the auto and other industries over the next several years – 1934
The Women’s Day Massacre in Youngstown, Ohio, when police use tear gas
on women and children, including at least one infant in his mother's
arms, during a strike at Republic Steel. One union organizer later
recalled, "When I got there I thought the Great War had started over
again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots flying and flares
going up and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in
my life..." - 1937
ILWU begins a four day general strike in sugar, pineapple, and
longshore to protest convictions under the anti-communist Smith Act of
seven activists, "the Hawai’i Seven." The convictions were later
overturned by a federal appeals court - 1953
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
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