This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Labor history at the AFL-CIO & Labor Notes; Last week's show: Detroit Remains: Using historical archeology to connect the past to the present.
June 23 Congress overrides President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act. The law weakened unions and let states exempt themselves from union requirements. Twenty states immediately enacted open shop laws and two more did so later - 1947 The newly-formed Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action, backing 3,000 picketing Eastern Airlines mechanics at Miami Airport - 1987 A majority of the 5,000 textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic 25-year fight - 1999 June 24 Birth of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr - 1848 Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880 17 workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971 - David Prosten. Comments are closed.
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