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Omaha Steve

(99,610 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 06:42 PM Apr 2014

April 7, 1947


http://nhlabornews.com/2014/04/april-7-1947/



Nearly 350,000 telephone operators, almost all of them women, walk off their jobs across the country on strike against AT&T. After the strike ended, the National Federation of Telephone Workers reformed itself into the Communications Workers of America, which converted the former autonomous organizations of the NFTW into a three-level union: the national union, 39 divisions, and locals.

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