Today in Labor History, May 26, the year was 1824.  That day was the first time when women workers in the United States left their jobs and walked out on strike.  It happened at the Slater Mill, part

Today in Labor History, May 25, the year was 1986.  That was the day that more than five million people participated in “Hands Across America.” The event was organized to raise money to combat the pro

Today in Labor History, May 24, the year was 1949.  That was the day a shot gun blast broke through a closed window and struck Victor Reuther, as he sat reading a newspaper in his living room. 

Today in Labor History, May 23, the year was 2003.  That was the day that the US Senate approved more than 300 billion dollars in tax cuts over the next decade.  The cuts barely passed.  Vice Presiden

Today in Labor History, May 22, the year was 1969.  That was the day that began the first strike of the Chicago Teacher’s Union.  The strike lasted three days.  It won teachers a $100 per month pay ra

Today in Labor History, May 21, the year was 1946.  That was the day that Democratic President Harry Truman ordered government seizure of the nation’s bituminous coal mines.  800,000 United Mine Worke

Today in Labor History, May 20, the year was 1937.  That was the day that workers at the Jones and Laughlin plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania voted in the first ever union election in the United States

Today in Labor History, May 19, the year was 1989.  That was the day that black author and Marxist theorist CLR James passed away.  James was born in Trinidad, at the time a Caribbean colony that was

Today in Labor History, May 18, the year was 1972.  That was the day that Maggie Kuhn stood before a group of reporters to tell them about her organization, the Gray Panthers.  The idea for the group

Today in Labor History, May 17, the year was 1954.  That was the day the Supreme Court handed down their decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.  In the unanimous decision the court declare