 Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Patrick Dixson and Chris Bangert-Drowns. On this week's show: founding of the American Federation of Teachers; first McDonald’s opens, leading to "McJobs"; 20,000 blockade meetings of the World Bank and IMF in D.C. Plus Saul Schniderman on A. Philip Randolph, the IBEW's Curtis Bateman on the strike by the first women-led American union, and music including Elizabeth Perry’s “Oklahoma Teacher Walkout Fight Song,” JY Media’s “mcjobs” and Seun Kuti’s “IMF.”
Employers lock out 25,000 New York City garment workers in a dispute over hiring practices. The Int’l Ladies’ Garment Workers Union calls a general strike; after 14 weeks, 60,000 strikers win union recognition and the contractual right to strike - 1916 Five hundred workers in Texas City, Texas die in a series of huge oil refinery and chemical plant explosions and fires - 1947 An estimated 20,000 global justice activists blockade Washington, D.C., meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund - 2000 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services Comments are closed.
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