Today in Labor History June 27 IWW founded, Congress passes Wagner Act, A 26-day strike of NYC hotel

[Omaha Steve]

June 27


Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869

The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a 12-days-long convention in Chicago. The Wobblie motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." - 1905

Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, creating the structure for collective bargaining in the United States - 1935

And this: June 27, 1935 - Congress passed and sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt the Wagner Act, authored by Senator Robert Wagner of New York. Also known as the National Labor Relations Act, the legislation created the structure for collective bargaining in the United States.

A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers – the first such walkout in 50 years – ends with a five-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains - 1985


A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers in Decatur, Ill. The lockout was to last two and one-half years – 1993 (Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement chronicles one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. Authors Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking explore how Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded to the company’s full-scale assault by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and African American communities, building a nationwide solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. In the UCS bookstore now.)

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_27_2011

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