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This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1933

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 12, 2022

On October 12, 1933, Mexican workers went on strike in the Los Angeles garment industry. This was a foundational moment in Mexican American labor history, one that presaged their growing presence in the American labor movement as the twentieth century went on. The National Recovery...

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Kathy Andrade, RIP

By Erik Loomis

On July 22, 2021

For a century, the American labor movement, taken as a whole, was anti-immigrant, based in part on racism and based in part on the fear of new workers undermining whatever.

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This Day in Labor History: June 3, 1900

By Erik Loomis

On June 3, 2021

On June 3, 1900, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union formed when delegates from 11 local unions of garment workers from New York, Newark, Baltimore, and Philadelphia met to form.

This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 27, 2016

On November 27, 1937, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play "Pins and Needles," which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. This cultural form of labor feminism at a time when organized labor was dominated by male workers is...