#Labor-Organizing
Events indexed under #Labor-Organizing — 21 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-18 | Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action Puerto Rican Workers' Union · Central Workers' Federation · United Auto Workers · Electrical Workers' Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization LUMA Energy · Puerto Rico Labor Unions · Angel Figueroa Jaramillo · Jocelyn Velazquez Rodriguez · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation United Auto Workers Local 1112 · General Motors Assembly Division · General Motors Corporation · Senator Ted Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 1965-09-08 | Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations United Farm Workers · Cesar Chavez · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · Delano Grape Growers | confirmed | |
| 1962-09-30 | Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign Cesar Chavez · Dolores Huerta · National Farm Workers Association · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee | confirmed | |
| 1958-11-04 | AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee · California voters · Ohio voters · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1946-05-01 | Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance Congress of Industrial Organizations · Van Bittner · George Baldanzi · United Auto Workers · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1945-11-21 | Largest Strike Wave in U.S. History Begins as 5 Million Workers Walk Out United Auto Workers · United Mine Workers · United Steelworkers · Walter Reuther · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-11-09 | Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism John L. Lewis · United Mine Workers of America · Sidney Hillman · David Dubinsky · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-10-15 | Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta President Woodrow Wilson · Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. · Samuel Gompers · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-01-12 | Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Joseph Ettor · Arturo Giovannitti · American Woolen Company | confirmed | |
| 1905-06-27 | Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism William "Big Bill" Haywood · Eugene V. Debs · Mother Jones · Lucy Parsons · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-05-15 | Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre Western Federation of Miners · Butte miners · Coeur d'Alene strikers · Mining industry workers | confirmed | |
| 1892-11-08 | New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory Workingmen's Amalgamated Council · Triple Alliance · New Orleans Board of Trade · American Federation of Labor | confirmed | |
| 1891-08-18 | People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement Farmers' Alliance · Knights of Labor · People's Party | confirmed | |
| 1891-07-15 | Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System Tennessee Coal Mining Company · Knoxville Iron Company · Tennessee Miners · John P. Buchanan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers Samuel Gompers · Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions · Knights of Labor · Craft unions | confirmed | |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse Terence V. Powderly · Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | confirmed | |
| 1836-01-01 | Courts Prosecute Labor Unions as Criminal Conspiracies in 17 Cases Since 1806, Criminalizing Worker Organization State courts · Labor unions · Employers · Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 1835-06-01 | Philadelphia General Strike Wins Ten-Hour Workday for 17 Trades Despite Court Hostility to Labor Organizing Philadelphia workers · Philadelphia City Council · Seventeen trade unions · Private employers | confirmed |