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#Labor-Organizing

Events indexed under #Labor-Organizing — 21 entries in the record.

21 events From Jun 1, 1835 To Feb 18, 2022 Open in filter view →
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1835 · 1 event1836 · 1 event1886 · 2 events1891 · 2 events1892 · 1 event1893 · 1 event1905 · 1 event1912 · 1 event1914 · 1 event1935 · 1 event1945 · 1 event1946 · 1 event1958 · 1 event1962 · 1 event1965 · 1 event1972 · 1 event2018 · 1 event2021 · 1 event2022 · 1 event18352022
DateEventLanesStatus
2022-02-18Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action 4 src
United Auto Workers · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2021-06-01LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization 9 src
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2018-08-01200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate 4 src
Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition
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1972-03-03Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation 3 src
Ted Kennedy
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1965-09-08Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations 3 src
United Farm Workers
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1962-09-30Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign 3 srcconfirmed
1958-11-04AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory 3 src
AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee
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1946-05-01Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance 3 src
Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Auto Workers · Ku Klux Klan
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1945-11-21Largest 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
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1935-11-09Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism 3 src
John L. Lewis · United Mine Workers of America · Philip Murray
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1914-10-15Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta 4 src
Woodrow Wilson · Samuel Gompers · American Federation of Labor
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1912-01-12Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise 3 src
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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1905-06-27Industrial Workers of the World Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism 3 src
Eugene V. Debs · Western Federation of Miners
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1893-05-15Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre 3 src
Western Federation of Miners
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1892-11-08New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory 3 src
American Federation of Labor
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1891-08-18People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement 3 src
Knights of Labor
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1891-07-15Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System 3 srcconfirmed
1886-12-08American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers 3 src
Samuel Gompers · Knights of Labor
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1886-01-01Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse 3 src
Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers
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1836-01-01Courts Prosecute Labor Unions as Criminal Conspiracies in 17 Cases Since 1806, Criminalizing Worker Organization 3 src
Labor unions
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1835-06-01Philadelphia General Strike Wins Ten-Hour Workday for 17 Trades Despite Court Hostility to Labor Organizing 3 srcconfirmed