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 A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that...
This Week in Labor History: 7/8 – 7/14
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 glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for...
This Week in Labor History: 6/10 – 6/16
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 broken; eight are injured and hospitalized. Sixteen workers’ cars were...
Museum of Tolerance Bus Trip – Deadline Extended!
Our first bus sold out quickly, and since we have heard from many more of you who still wanted to attend, we are extending the ticket purchase deadline to Friday, August 2nd. You can click here to purchase your ticket online or see below for details on how to send in...
This Week in Labor History: 6/3 – 6/9
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 “Royal Twenty Centers” established by the Canadian government to provide work...
100 Years Union Strong, Part 1: The CFT turns 100 years old today!
PART 1: OUR BEGINNINGS The birth of a statewide Federation This previously unpublished account tells how the first eight AFT locals in California joined together for sharing of information and their own defense. Read this story of solidarity. VIDEO: See part 1 of our...
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This Week in Labor History: 5/20 – 5/26
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 21 Italian activists and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,...
This Week in Labor History: 5/13 – 5/19
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 dock workers strike in Philadelphia - 1913 UAW President Douglas A. Fraser is...
REMINDER: Please send us your best students!
Friendly reminder: Deadline to contact Jim Miller <jmiller229@icloud.com> is Monday, May 13th. Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Mahler Subject: Who is your best student? Date: May 7, 2019 at 11:46:18 AM PDT Dear Colleagues, We are in the process of...