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June 15

The Metal Trades Department of what is now the AFL-CIO is founded - 1908

June 15

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June 14

The first commercial computer, UNIVAC I, is installed at the U.S. Census Bureau - 1951

June 14

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June 13

Congress creates a Bureau of Labor, under the Interior Department.

June 13

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June 12

Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walk off their jobs; demands include equalization of wages and conditions throughout U.S. plants - 1904

June 12

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June 11

Representatives from the AFL, Knights of Labor, populists, railroad brotherhoods and other trade unions hold a unity conference in St. Louis but fail to overcome their differences - 1894

June 11