April 30 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
An explosion at the Everettville mine
in Everettville, W. Va., kills 109 miners, many of whom lie in unmarked
graves to this day - 1927
The Obama administration’s National Labor Relations Board implements
new rules to speed up unionization elections. The new rules are largely
seen as a counter to employer manipulation of the law to prevent workers
from unionizing - 2012
April 29
Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, D.C. - 1894
An estimated one thousand silver miners, angry over low wages, the
firing of union members and the planting of spies in their ranks by
mineowners, seize a train, load it with 3,000 pounds of dynamite, and
blow up the mill at the Bunker Hill mine in Wardner, Idaho - 1899
The special representative of the National War Labor Board issues a
report, “Retroactive Date for Women’s Pay Adjustments,” setting forth
provisions for wage rates for women working in war industries who were
asking for equal pay. Women a year earlier had demanded equal pay for
comparable work as that done by men - 1943
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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