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Omaha Steve

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Thu Oct 2, 2014, 12:29 PM Oct 2014

October 1, 1975


http://nhlabornews.com/2014/10/october-1-1975/




200 press operators and members of Pressmen’s Local 6 go on strike at the Washington Post. Determined to break the strike and bust the militant union, managers and scabs were flown to the building by helicopter to operate the presses. Nine of the ten other unions at the newspaper supported the striking pressmen, but the nearly two year-long strike ended in defeat.


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