
In 1934, some 25,000 silk dye workers struck in Paterson, New Jersey.
In 1990, the Tribune Company began a brutal 5-month-long lockout at the New York Daily News, part of an effort to bust the newspaper’s unions.
And in 2011, after a two-year fight, workers at the Bonus Car Wash in Santa Monica, California, won a union contract calling for pay increases, better breaks and other gains.
- compiled/edited by David Prosten at Union Communication Services