| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1967-12-15 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40%
3 src U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers | | confirmed |
| 1964-01-01 | Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure
3 src Barry Goldwater | | confirmed |
| 1962-09-30 | Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights
3 src John F. Kennedy · Federal employees |
| confirmed |
| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion |
| confirmed |
| 1959-09-14 | Landrum-Griffin Act Imposes Federal Restrictions on Union Internal Operations
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership
3 src Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · AFL-CIO | | confirmed |
| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying
3 src National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor
3 src U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director
3 src J. Edgar Hoover | | confirmed |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity
2 src American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers | | confirmed |
| 1953-04-16 | Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech - Every Gun Made Is a Theft From Those Who Hunger
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial
3 src Roy Cohn | | confirmed |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model
3 src General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther |
| confirmed |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple
4 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Louis Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | | confirmed |
| 1950-01-01 | Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure
12 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1949-11-15 | CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions
3 src Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1947-06-23 | Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws
3 src Robert Taft · Republican Party · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1945-11-21 | Largest Strike Wave in U.S. History Begins as 5 Million Workers Walk Out
4 src United Auto Workers · United Mine Workers · United Steelworkers · Walter Reuther · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1943-04-08 | Hold the Line Order Freezes Wages While Corporate Profits Soar
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · John L. Lewis | | confirmed |
| 1942-08-04 | Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System
3 src U.S. Department of Labor · Mexican Government · Railroad companies | | confirmed |
| 1942-01-12 | National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · War Production Board | | confirmed |
| 1942-01-01 | Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico
3 src Mexican Government | | confirmed |
| 1939-02-27 | Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · National Labor Relations Board · Corporate employers |
| confirmed |
| 1938-07-30 | Henry Ford Receives Nazi Grand Cross of the German Eagle on 75th Birthday, Hitler's Highest Honor for Foreigners
3 src Henry Ford · Ford Motor Company | | confirmed |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1938-05-26 | Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
3 src John L. Lewis · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-06-01 | IBM's Thomas Watson Receives Nazi Merit Cross of the German Eagle as IBM Profits from Punch Card Technology
3 src IBM | | confirmed |
| 1937-05-30 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons
4 src Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 1937-05-26 | Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge
3 src Ford Motor Company · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · Henry Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory
3 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Frank Murphy · Walter Reuther | | confirmed |
| 1937-01-11 | Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire
3 src United Auto Workers |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
4 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Walter Reuther · Frank Murphy | | confirmed |
| 1936-09-01 | Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act
3 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
3 src U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network
2 src Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · U.S. Steel |
| confirmed |
| 1935-11-09 | Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
3 src John L. Lewis · United Mine Workers of America · Philip Murray | | confirmed |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-31 | Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1927-01-01 | Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor
3 src U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · Samuel Gompers | | confirmed |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1924-01-15 | National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1922-09-01 | Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction
3 src Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding |
| confirmed |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1921-08-25 | Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History
3 src United Mine Workers of America | | confirmed |
| 1921-05-19 | Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin
3 src Warren G. Harding · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1921-01-01 | American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Steel · Henry Clay Frick · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
3 src Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1919-11-11 | American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force
6 src American Legion | | confirmed |
| 1919-09-22 | Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids
3 src American Federation of Labor · A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1917-11-14 | Night of Terror as 33 Suffragists Brutalized at Occoquan Workhouse by Prison Guards
3 src Lucy Burns · Alice Paul | | confirmed |
| 1917-08-01 | Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |
| 1917-07-12 | Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
| confirmed |
| 1917-06-08 | Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
| confirmed |
| 1917-01-10 | National Woman's Party Begins Historic White House Picketing as Silent Sentinels
3 src Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1916-11-14 | Inez Milholland Dies During Western Suffrage Tour Becoming Martyr for the Cause
3 src National Woman's Party · Alice Paul | | confirmed |
| 1916-11-05 | Everett Massacre: Lumber Company Vigilantes Kill IWW Members at City Dock
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
| confirmed |
| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers
3 src Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction
3 src U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children
5 src United Mine Workers of America · John D. Rockefeller Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1913-08-03 | Wheatland Hop Riot: IWW Farmworkers Protest Conditions, Deputies Kill Four, Leaders Framed
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · California National Guard |
| confirmed |
| 1913-02-25 | Paterson Silk Strike: IWW Leads 25,000 Workers in Five-Month Struggle Against Textile Manufacturers
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · John Reed |
| confirmed |
| 1912-04-18 | Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Mine War: West Virginia Declares Martial Law, Mother Jones Imprisoned
3 src United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1911-03-25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence
6 src Frances Perkins |
| confirmed |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized
3 src Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts
3 src Supreme Court of the United States |
| confirmed |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1905-06-27 | Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
3 src Eugene V. Debs · Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1904-01-01 | Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1902-10-03 | Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal
3 src Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root | | confirmed |
| 1902-05-12 | Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out
3 src United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies | | confirmed |
| 1897-09-10 | Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse
5 src United Mine Workers |
| confirmed |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1894-07-03 | Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike, Imprison Eugene Debs
3 src Eugene V. Debs · Grover Cleveland | | confirmed |
| 1894-05-11 | Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions
6 src Eugene V. Debs · Grover Cleveland · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention
3 src Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1893-05-15 | Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre
3 src Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1892-11-08 | New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory
3 src American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1892-07-11 | Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial
3 src Western Federation of Miners · Pinkerton Detective Agency · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1892-07-06 | Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead
7 src Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Carnegie Steel Company | | confirmed |
| 1892-01-01 | Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions
3 src Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1891-07-15 | Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers
3 src Samuel Gompers · Knights of Labor | | confirmed |
| 1886-05-04 | Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash
4 src Chicago Police Department · Knights of Labor |
| confirmed |