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The
American Flint Glass workers union is formed, headquartered in
Pittsburgh. It was to merge into the Steelworkers 140 years later, in
2003 - 1873
Steel workers in Cleveland begin what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts - 1885
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. Seven strikers and three Pinkertons
killed as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs to protect strikebreakers -
1892
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers stages
what is to become an unsuccessful 3-month strike against U.S. Steel
Corp. Subsidiaries - 1901
One million railway shopmen strike - 1922
Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the
creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and
one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men
coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes
another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up -
1929
(The Lexicon of Labor: If
you’ve never quite understood all the major legislative acts affecting
labor, like Taft-Hartley or Davis-Bacon or Walsh-Healy; if you need a
better understanding of key labor figures like Mother Jones, Sam
Gompers, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez and George Meany; if terms like
"Boulwarism," "maquiladora" or "zipper clause" beg for explanation; if
you need to know exactly when the first Labor Day parade or sit-down
strike occurred, this is the book for you.)
In what was to
be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry
while demanding a number of wage and working condition improvements.
They won all their demands, including a union shop - 1956
National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance
Employees, United Federation of Postal Clerks, National Federation of
Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees & National Association of
Special Delivery Messengers merge to become American Postal Workers
Union - 1971
Int’l Jewelry Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1980
Graphic Arts Int’l Union merges with Int’l Printing & Graphic
Communications Union to become Graphic Communications Int’l Union, now a
conference of the Teamsters - 1983
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt repeatedly
deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over
the course of the strike, which broke the union - 1983
Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merges with Int’l
Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form Union of Needletrades, Industrial
& Textile Employees - 1995
Int’l Chemical Workers Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union - 1996
The Newspaper Guild merges with Communications Workers of America - 1997
United American Nurses affiliate with the AFL-CIO - 2001
Monday, July 01, 2013
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