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..." - 1937ILWU begins a 4-day general strike in sugar, pineapple, and longshore to protest convictions under the anti-communist Smith Act of seven activists, "the Hawaii Seven." The convictions were later overturned by a federal appeals court - 1953
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