September 22 --
Emancipation Proclamation signed - 1862
Eighteen-year-old Hannah (Annie) Shapiro
leads a spontaneous walkout of 17 women at a Hart Schaffner & Marx
garment factory in Chicago. It grows into a months-long mass strike
involving 40,000 garment workers across the city, protesting 10-hour
days, bullying bosses and cuts in already-low wages - 1910
Great Steel Strike begins; 350,000
workers demand union recognition. The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing
Committee calls off the strike, their goal unmet, 108 days later - 1919
Martial law rescinded in Mingo County,
W. Va., after police, U.S. troops and hired goons finally quell coal
miners' strike - 1922
U.S. Steel announces it will cut the wages of 220,000 workers by 10 percent - 1931
United Textile Workers strike committee
orders strikers back to work after 22 days out, ending what was at that
point the greatest single industrial conflict in the history of American
organized labor. The strike involved some 400,000 workers in New
England, the mid-Atlantic states and the South - 1934
Some 400,000 coal miners strike for higher wages in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and Ohio - 1935
The AFL expels the Int’l Longshoremen's
Association for racketeering; the union was readmitted to the
then-AFL-CIO six years later - 1953
OSHA reaches its largest ever settlement
agreement, $21 million, with BP Products North America following an
explosion at BP's Texas City, Texas, plant earlier in the year that
killed 15 and injured 170 - 2005
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Eleven Domino's employees in Pensacola, Fla., form the nation's first union of pizza delivery drivers - 2006
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