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April 16
April 16
Employers lock out 25,000 New York City garment workers in a dispute over hiring practices. The Int’l Ladies’ Garment Workers Union calls a general strike; after 14 weeks, 60,000 strikers win union recognition and the contractual right to strike - 1916
Five hundred workers in Texas City, Texas die in a series of huge oil refinery and chemical plant explosions and fires - 1947 
An estimated 20,000 global justice activists blockade Washington, D.C., meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund - 2000
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Owners Couldn’t Bust the Union, so They Shut Down the Paper
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Owners Couldn’t Bust the Union, so They Shut Down the Paper
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Owners Couldn’t Bust the Union, so They Shut Down the Paper
CWA Campus Workers in Virginia Oppose Attacks on Higher Education
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CWA Campus Workers in Virginia Oppose Attacks on Higher Education
CWA Campus Workers in Virginia Oppose Attacks on Higher Education
Environmental Workers Push to Join CWA
