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Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike - 1904
Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson (N.J.) Strike, created
and performed by 1,000 mill workers from the silk industry strike, New
York City - 1913
Striking textile workers battle police in Gastonia, N.C. Police
Chief O.F. Aderholt is accidentally killed by one of his own officers.
Six strike leaders are convicted of “conspiracy to murder” and are
sentenced to jail for from five to 20 years - 1929
Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The
merger brought together the Retail Clerks Int’l Union and the
Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America - 1979
(Labor and the Environmental Movement: The
Quest for Common Ground: Relations between organized labor and
environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most
often because of the threat of job losses invoked by industries facing
environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and
most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a
great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked
together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety,
environmental restoration, and globalization. (Examples include the
surprising solidarity of "Teamsters and Turtles" in the anti-WTO
demonstrations in Seattle, and the formal Steelworkers-Sierra Club
"Blue-Green Alliance").
The United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club announce the formation of
a strategic alliance to pursue a joint public policy agenda under the
banner of Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World - 2006
California State Labor Law Poster (Google Affiliate Ad)
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