Today in Labor History

The "Shoemakers of Boston"—the first labor organization in what would later become the United States—authorized by Massachusetts Bay Colony (1648); New York City agrees to pay women school teachers a rate equal to that of men (1911); IWW Colorado Mine strike; first time all coal fields are out (1927); 58,000 Chrysler Corp. workers strike for wage increases (1939); United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) formed as a self-governing union, an outgrowth of the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. UPWA merged with the Meatcutters union in 1968, which merged with the Retail Clerks in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) (1943); GM agrees to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1983)…Read more
- compiled/edited by David Prosten at Union Communication Services ​​

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