Today in Labor History - August 17

August 17
IWW War Trials in Chicago, 95 go to prison for up to 20 years - 1918
 
Bakery & Confectionery Workers Int’l Union of America merges with Tobacco Workers Int’l Union to become Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers - 1978
 
Year-long Hormel meatpackers' strike begins in Austin, Minn. - 1985