June 23
Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte,
Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner’s
local there. It didn’t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man;
Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in
a dynamite blast - 1914
Congress overrides President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker
Taft-Hartley Act. The law weakened unions and let states exempt themselves
from union requirements. Twenty states immediately enacted open shop laws
and more followed - 1947
OSHA issues standard on cotton dust to protect 600,000 workers from
byssinosis, also known as "brown lung" - 1978
The newly-formed Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action,
backing 3,000 picketing Eastern Airlines mechanics at Miami Airport - 1987
A majority of the 5,000 textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile
plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic
25-year fight - 1999
More info & ammo for unionists is available
online from Union Communication Services.
CWA Hosts Presidents’ Meeting and Legislative and Political Conference
CWA Human Rights Committee Members Take Eric’s ID Law to Washington, D.C.