Today in labor history Feb 28 U.S. Supreme Court finds that eight-hour workday is constitutional!

[Omaha Steve]

February 28

U.S. Supreme Court finds that a Utah state law limiting mine and smelter workers to an eight-hour workday is constitutional - 1898


February 28, 1986 - The entire workforce of the 3M factory in Elandsfontein, South Africa, walked off their jobs to support the 450 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union who were being laid off at a 3M plant in New Jersey. The South African workers -- all of them black -- were among the hundreds of thousands of union members whose militancy helped bring down the apartheid system.