April 3

UAW Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisc.
The strike ends six years later after Kohler is found guilty of refusing to bargain, agrees to reinstate 1,400 strikers and pay them $4.5 million in
back pay and pension credits - 1954

Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous "I've Been to the
Mountaintop" speech in a church packed with union members and others. He is assassinated the following day - 1968

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