June 12

Major League Baseball strike begins, forces cancellation of 713 games. Most observers blamed team owners for the strike: they were trying to recover from a court decision favoring the players on free agency – 1981

 Also on this date: Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walk off their jobs. U.S. Supreme Court invalidates sections of a Florida law that required state licensing of paid union business agents and registration with the state of all unions and their officers.

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