July 15 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Some 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8-hour day - 1917
Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Camp Hill, Ala. - 1931
A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike
that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted
to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of
workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery
that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees - 1959
(There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America: This
sympathetic, thoughtful and highly readable history of the American
labor movement traces unionism from the textile mills of Lowell,
Massachusetts in the 1820s to organized labor’s decline in the 1980s and
struggle for survival and growth today.)
Monday, July 15, 2013
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