 Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast, featuring Joe McCartin, Tula Connell and Chris Bangert-Drowns on the trial of anti-war Wobblies and the postal worker’s wildcat strike.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Adamson Act, a federal law that established an eight-hour workday, with overtime pay, for interstate railway workers. Congress passed the law a year earlier to avert a nationwide rail strike – 1917 In an effort to block massive layoffs and end a strike, New York City moves to condemn and seize Fifth Avenue Coach, the largest privately owned bus company in the world - 1962 Three workers are killed, five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia - 1981 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Service Comments are closed.
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