This Week in Labor History: 12/3 – 12/9

December 03 Textile strikers win 10-hour day, Fall River, Mass. – 1866 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes an ordinance setting an 8-hour workday for all city employees – 1867 IWW union Brotherhood of Timber Workers organized – 1910  ...

This Week in Labor History: 11/26 – 12/2

November 26 Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door through which the women could flee was locked – 1910 November 27 Some...