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May 21

Nearly 100,000 unionized SBC Communications Inc. workers begin a four-day strike to protest the local phone giant?s latest contract offer - 2004

May 21

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May 13

Thousands of yellow cab drivers in New York City go on a one day strike in protest of proposed new regulations.

May 13

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May 12

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raid the Agriprocessors, Inc. slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, arrest nearly 400 immigrant workers.

May 12

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May 11

Nationwide railway strike begins at Pullman, Ill. 260,000 railroad workers ultimately joined the strike to protest wage cuts by the Pullman Palace Car Co. - 1894

May 11

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May 10

Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation?s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah ? 1869

May 10

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May 9

Hollywood studio mogul Louis B. Mayer recognizes the Screen Actors Guild.

May 9