Some 750,000 steel workers walk out in 30 states, largest strike in U.S. history to that time - 1946
Postal workers begin four-day strike at the Jersey City, N.J., bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as “The Outlaws”- 1974
Six hundred police attack picketing longshoremen in Charleston, S.C. - 2000
(On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5 tells the story of longshoremen in South Carolina who confronted attempts to wipe out their union, the state’s most powerful black organization, and rallied the nation and labor around the world in their successful fight. It is a compelling narrative of a local struggle, a transformed union leader, and a newly-energized international worker movement.)
Working Class Heroes
First day of a four-day strike by 2,000 postal workers at the New York Bulk and Foreign
Mail Center. The "Battle of the Bulk" as it became known, was caused by postal management's
unilateral changes in workers' hours and working conditions. As a result of the workers'
solidarity, a federal judge ruled in the union's favor by directing management to settle the issue through binding arbitration. 1974 ~De
Mail Center. The "Battle of the Bulk" as it became known, was caused by postal management's
unilateral changes in workers' hours and working conditions. As a result of the workers'
solidarity, a federal judge ruled in the union's favor by directing management to settle the issue through binding arbitration. 1974 ~De
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