Some 33,000 striking members of the Machinists end a 69-day walkout at Boeing after winning pay and benefit increases and protections against subcontracting some of their work overseas - 1995
A U.S. immigration sweep of six Swift meat plants results in arrests of nearly 1,300 undocumented workers - 2006
(The Union Steward?s Guide, Spanish 2nd edition: This bound, 158-page compilation contains more than 130 articles from the Spanish language edition of Steward Update newsletter, read today by more than 70,000 stewards across North America.)
A small group of black farmers organize the Colored Farmers? National Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. They had been barred from membership in the all-white Southern Farmers? Alliance. Through intensive organizing, along with merging with another black farmers group, the renamed Colored Alliance by 1891 claimed a membership of 1.2 million - 1886