January 04
Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933
What many believe to be the longest strike in modern history, by Danish barbers’ assistants, ends after 33 years - 1961
Eight thousand New York City social workers strike, demand better conditions for welfare recipients - 1965
United Paperworkers Int’l Union merges with Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Int’l Union to form Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers Int’l Union, itself later to merge with the Steelworkers - 1999
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CWA District 1 Holds Annual Leadership Conference
CWA Exposes How AT&T’s Dangerous Gigapower Business Model Undermines Good Jobs and Public Safety in Arizona
CWA Chief of Staff Sylvia J. Ramos Delivers AI Recommendations to Global Union in Geneva