Labor history Oct 25, 25,000 silk dye workers strike, win 6 month strike, NY Daily strike, Sweeney

[Omaha Steve]

October 25

25,000 silk dye workers strike in Paterson, NJ - 1934

In what becomes known as the Great Hawaiian Dock Strike, a six-month struggle to win wage parity with mainland dock workers, ends in victory - 1949

The Tribune Co. begins a brutal five-month-long lockout at the New York Daily News, part of an effort to bust the newspaper’s unions - 1990

John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Intl. Union, elected president of AFL-CIO - 1995


Between 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement tore itself apart in a series of union-on-union struggles. In The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor, labor journalist Steve Early draws on scores of interviews and on his own union organizing experience to explain why and how these labor civil wars occurred. If you want a better understanding of why the labor movement is struggling for survival today, read this. In the UCS bookstore now.

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history