Today in Labor History July 31 Steelworkers at Newport News Shipbuilding ratify a breakthrough agree

[Omaha Steve]

July 31

July 31, 1970 - Members of the National Football League Players Association went on strike. Pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents were all key issues in the walkout. Although the strike lasted only two days, the NFLPA marks the event as the milestone that made the organization a real union.
Read more at the NFLPA website, http://www.nflpa.org/AboutUs/NFLPA_History.aspx#6

Fifty-day baseball strike ends - 1981

The Great Shipyard Strike of 1999 ends after Steelworkers at Newport News Shipbuilding ratify a breakthrough agreement which nearly doubles pensions, increases security, ends inequality, and provides the highest wage increases in company and industry history to nearly 10,000 workers at the yard. The strike lasted 15 weeks - 1999

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_07_31_2009