Dear Colleagues, Please see the message below from CFT President Jeff Freitas regarding our potential litigation against the Online College. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any ad ...
July 15 Some 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8-hour day – 1917 Ralph Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Camp Hill, Ala. – 1931 ...
July 08 First anthracite coal strike in U.S. – 1842 Labor organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born on Staten Island, N.Y. Among her activities: investigating child labor in gl ...
June 10 The mayor of Monroe, Mich. organizes a vigilante mob of 1,400 armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the organizing picket line of 200 striking workers at Newton Steel. The line is brok ...
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June 03 Int’l Ladies Garment Workers Union founded – 1900 A federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional – 1918 More than 1,000 Canadian men, working at “Roy ...
PART 1: OUR BEGINNINGS The birth of a statewide Federation This previously unpublished account tells how the first eight AFT locals in California joined together for sharing of information and their o ...
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May 20 The Railway Labor Act takes effect today. It is the first federal legislation protecting workers’ rights to form unions – 1926 Some 9,000 rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio – 1933 ...
May 13 Western Federation of Miners formed in Butte, Mont. – 1893 The Canadian government establishes the Department of Labour. It took the U.S. another four years – 1909 Some 10,000 IWW d ...
