On May 13, 1874, a man in New York named Charles Walker was arrested for working his dog on a cider press. This is a chance to talk about the labor history of animals! We don't usually think of animals when we think of labor...
This Day in Labor History
On May 9, 1949, mob thugs assassinated International Ladies Garment Workers Union organizer William Lurye in a blatant effort to keep New York garment trade shops union-free. They got away.
On May 3, 1932, the former president of the Iowa Farmers Union, Milo Reno, organized the Farmers Holiday Association. This was a short-lived but important expression of rural organizing in.
On May 2, 1968, a small wildcat strike at a Chrysler plant in Detroit led to the creation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement. This merging of Black Power and leftist unionism challenged the United Auto Workers leadership as much as it did the auto...
On April 28, 1911, the South African government passed the Mines and Works Act that banned Africans to unskilled work in the mines and on the railroads. This especially what.
On April 19, 1920, workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World went on strike in the copper mines around Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Mining Company, building on the.
On April 18, 1905, sugar workers in Puerto Rico went on strike in a coordinated action of 20,000 workers that build connections between agricultural and urban labor. Although this did not transform the Puerto Rican labor movement long-term, it was an important early step in...
On April 17, 1941, two New York bus companies and the National Negro Congress came to an agreement to end the NNC's boycott of city’s bus companies that had started.
On April 10, 1917, four days after the U.S. declared war on Germany, the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, outside of Chester, exploded, killing 139 workers, mostly women and.
On March 6, 1922, a group of sex workers in Veracruz, Mexico burned their beds and mattresses as part of a growing rent strike in that city. This became a nationwide grassroots leftist movement that many hoped was the next phase of the Mexican Revolution....
On February 17, 2000, the AFL-CIO officially changed its stance on immigration. No longer would the labor movement in this nation officially oppose immigration. Instead, it moved to become one.
On January 19, 1915, armed thugs hired by the Williams & Clark fertilizer plant in Roosevelt, New Jersey (now known as Carteret) killed two striking workers. The Roosevelt Massacre is.