January 31

After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts – 1978 After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts – 1978Also on this date: 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Tex. - mostly Latino women - walk off their jobs. Ida M. Fuller is the first retiree to receive an old-age monthly benefit check under the new Social Security law. Union and student pressure forces Harvard University to adopt new labor policies raising wages for lowest-paid workers. Five months after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans school board fires every teacher in the district.More info & ammo for unionists is available
online from Union Communication Services.

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