Today in Labor History Apr 10, 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed, strippers win union

[Omaha Steve]

April 10


April 10, 1880 - Frances Perkins was born. She was Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office.

133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester. Fifty-five of the dead were never identified - 1917

Birth of Dolores Huerta, a co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers - 1930


Dancers from the Lusty Lady Club in San Francisco’s North Beach ratify their first-ever union contract by a vote of 57-15, having won representaion by SEIU Local 790 the previous summer. The club later became a worker-owned cooperative - 1997

Tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrate in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action billed as a campaign for immigrants’ dignity. Some 200,000 gathered in Washington, D.C. - 2006

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_04_10_2011

[calimary]

1. Let me be the first to kick and rec!

EXCELLENT history. Well worth noting and remembering!

[patrice]

2. K&R

[aquart]

3. Thanks for giving us the chance to honor and remember.

And for those not born when those events took place, the chance to learn what we were never taught in school.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. I think Michael Moore covered the strippers unionizing.

On one of his TV shows.
I think they joined the Teamsters.
I remember when they showed the video of the ladies, they played "Look for the Union Label". :rofl: