July 31 - Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a 2-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents - 1970
Fifty-day baseball strike ends - 1981
The Great Shipyard Strike of 1999 ends after Steelworkers at Newport News Shipbuilding ratify a breakthrough agreement which nearly doubles pensions, increases security, ends inequality, and provides the highest wage increases in company and industry history to nearly 10,000 workers at the yard. The strike lasted 15 weeks - 1999\
SOLIDARITY WORKS!!! via- Teamsters
Gold Coast Ambulance employees are vowing to strike as long as necessary to win a pay increase. Right now they’re making fast-food wages. Please show some support for our brothers and sisters at Teamsters Local 542 who walked off the job yesterday. Read more: http://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=8646&cat=Local+News
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