Today in Labor History: Weekend Edition Feb 17-18-19

[Omaha Steve]

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February 17

Unions at Yale University strike in solidarity with teaching assistants - 1992

February 18

Faced with 84-hour workweeks, 24-hour shifts and pay of 29 cents an hour, fire fighters form The International Association of Fire Fighters. Some individual locals had affiliated with the AFL beginning in 1903 - 1918


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February 19

The U.S. Supreme Court decides in favor of sales clerk Leura Collins and her union, the Retail Clerks, in NLRB v. J. Weingarten Inc. – the case establishing that workers have a right to request the presence of their union steward if they believe they are to be disciplined for a workplace infraction – 1975
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