On September 10, 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike. Led by Karen Lewis, a charismatic union president who had recently taken over the CTU and revitalized it on.
On August 30, 1996, workers at the Lusty Lady theater in San Francisco became the first sex workers in American history to form a federally recognized union when they joined.
On August 16, 1937, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to National Federation of Federal Employees head Luther Steward of his ambivalence over public sector unionism. Conservatives have often cited that.
On August 4, 1909, the Swedish General Strike began. Perhaps the largest and most sustained general strike in world history, lasting more than one month, I am surprised it is.
On July 19, 1935, leftist housewives in Detroit, led by a woman named Mary Zuk, began a meat boycott in outrage over high prices. This remarkable moment demonstrates the centrality.
On July 3, 1913, an auto worker named Charles Weaver lost his eye after a crowbar struck him in the face at work. That was bad enough, but for Weaver.
On June 25, 1943, Congress overrode Franklin Delano Roosevelt's veto of the Smith-Connally Act. Enacted after the United Mine Workers of America went on strike during World War II, the.
On June 22, 1916, cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. This.
