Led by 23-year-old Kate Mullaney, the Collar Laundry Union forms in Troy, N.Y., raises earnings for female laundry workers from $2 to $14 a week - 1864
Bricklayers begin working eight-hour days - 1867
Some 25,000 Paterson, N.J., silk workers strike for eight-hour work day and improved working conditions. Eighteen hundred were arrested over the course of the six-month walkout, led by the Wobblies. They returned to work on their employers’ terms - 1913
(Lyddie: Lyddie Worthen is a 13-year-old farm girl who takes a job in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, when hard times hit her family. Six days a week from dawn to dusk she and the other girls run weaving looms in the murky dust-and lint-filled factory. Lyddie learns to read—and to handle the menacing overseer. But when the working conditions begin to affect her friends' health, she has to make a choice. Will she speak up for better working conditions and risk her job—and her dream of reuniting her family? Or will she stay quiet until it is perhaps too late? A wonderful story of strength, courage and solidarity.)
The federal minimum wage increases to $1.60 per hour - 1968
International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers merge with Service Employees International Union - 1995
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Today in #LaborHistory : February 1 -- via -- www.unionist.com
On February 1, 2012, Indiana became the 23rd right-to-work state in the nation.
The state Senate voted 28-22 to pass the bill as thousands of protesters packed Statehouse hallways, shouting their disapproval. Thousands more were outside waiting to get in.
Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the bill shortly thereafter without ceremony, making Indiana the 23rd state in the nation with such a law. Indiana also is the first state in the "Rust Belt" of the Midwest and Northeast to adopt the measure. ~De
On February 1, 2012, Indiana became the 23rd right-to-work state in the nation.
The state Senate voted 28-22 to pass the bill as thousands of protesters packed Statehouse hallways, shouting their disapproval. Thousands more were outside waiting to get in.
Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the bill shortly thereafter without ceremony, making Indiana the 23rd state in the nation with such a law. Indiana also is the first state in the "Rust Belt" of the Midwest and Northeast to adopt the measure. ~De
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