June 7

Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America – 1979

 Also on this date: Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike. Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson (NJ) Strike. Striking textile workers battle police in Gastonia, N.C. United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club announce the formation of a strategic alliance under the banner of Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World.

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