Eight female bank tellers in Willmar, Minn. begin the first strike against a
bank in U.S. history. At issue: they were paid little more than half what
male tellers were paid. The strike ended in moral victory but economic
defeat two years later - 1977
California's longest nurses strike ended after workers at Doctors Medical
Center in San Pablo and Pinole approved a new contract with Tenet Healthcare
Corp., ending a 13-month walkout - 2003