laborhistory

November 9th: Congress of Industrial Organizations formed in 1935 #laborhistory

November 1st: 1979–1980 International Harvester strike began #laborhistory

September 13th: 1948 Boeing strike ended #laborhistory

July 8th: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement strike begins #laborhistory

January 24th: First canned beer goes on sale in 1935 #laborhistory

July 24th: Labor leader Richard Trumka born #laborhistory

October 24th: 40-hour work week went into effect in 1940 #laborhistory

June 23rd: 1947 Taft–Hartley Act goes into effect #laborhistory

June 27th: Industrial Workers of the World founded in 1905 #laborhistory

May 1st: May Day/International Workers’ Day #laborhistory

June 19th: 1937 Women's Day Massacre occurred #laborhistory

October 15th: Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 enacted #laborhistory

December 23rd: Walmart settled 63 lawsuits over wages in 2008 #laborhistory

March 31st: Cesar Chavez born in 1927 #laborhistory

July 14th: Sacco and Vanzetti convicted #laborhistory

April 15th: Asa Philip Randolph born in 1889 #laborhistory

January 15th: Labor leader Sarah Bagley died in 1889 #laborhistory

October 28th: Labor activist Luisa Capetillo born in 1879 #laborhistory

February 28th: 1985 Pan Am strike began #laborhistory

May 12th: 1902 coal strike began #laborhistory

April 23rd: Service Employees International Union founded in 1921 #laborhistory

April 10th: Dolores Huerta born in 1930 #laborhistory

June 5th: Teamsters for a Democratic Union formed in 1975 #laborhistory

July 6th: 1935 National Labor Relations Act became effective #laborhistory