October 24, 1892

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/10/october-24-1892/




Members of three unions – the Teamsters, the Scalesmen, and the Packers – go on strike in New Orleans for a 10-hour work day, overtime pay, and a union shop. A general strike involving 46 other unions and 25,000 workers quickly followed and the city came to a halt. After a number of failed attempts to divide and crush the strike, employers agreed to binding arbitration, and the workers won the 10-hour day and overtime pay, but not the union shop.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. And to think

it took Corporate America with the help of third way Dems and Rethugs less than hundred years to destroy what many fought so hard for. Sigma Six baby. Race to the bottom and we are winning aren't we America. Wake the F--- up people.