Today in Labor History

April 07  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board attorney tells ILWU members to “lie down like good dogs,” Juneau, Alaska - 1947
 
Some 300,000 members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, soon to become CWA, strike AT&T and the Bell System. Within five weeks all but two of the 39 federation unions had won new contracts - 1947
 
Fifteen thousand union janitors strike, Los Angeles - 2000