Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens dies at age 75. Among her songs: ?They?ll Never Keep Us Down? and ?Working Girl Blues.? Cultural blogger John Pietaro: "Dickens didn?t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them. Her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause" - 2011
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller signs Taylor Law, permitting union organization and bargaining by public employees, but outlawing the right to strike - 1967
Nearly 10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers? win of a 10-percent pay hike and grievance committees after a one-month strike, Lowell, Mass. - 1912
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the nation?s ?Furniture City,? more than 6,000 immigrant workers?Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians and Poles?put down their tools and struck 59 factories for four months in what was to become known as the Great Furniture Strike - 1911