This Week in Labor History: May 7-13

  May 07 The Knights of St. Crispin union is formed at a secret meeting in Milwaukee. It grew to 50,000 members before being crushed by employers later that year – 1867 Two die, 20 are injured in “Bloody Tuesday” as strikebreakers attempt to run San...

This Week in Labor History: April 23-29

This Week in Labor History April 23  The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is founded through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), the two major union congresses in Canada at the time.  The CLC represents...