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Labor History Feb 13, 8 month strike ends in VICTORY, The first public school in the United States
http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history & http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_02_13_2012
February 13
February 13, 1635 - The first public school in the United States, the Boston Latin School, opened.
A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars—the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States - 1865
Some 12,000 Hollywood writers returned to work today following a largely-successful three-month strike against television and motion picture studios. They won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet - 2008