Harrisonville Telephone Company

14 Dec, 2017

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14 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 14

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

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 14

13 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 13

Death in San Antonio, Texas, of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor - 1924

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 13

12 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 12

A U.S. immigration sweep of six Swift meat plants results in arrests of nearly 1,300 undocumented workers - 2006

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11 Dec, 2017

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This week in Labor History - Dec. 11

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

Ten days after an Illinois State mine inspector approved coal dust removal techniques at New Orient mine in West Frankfort, the mine exploded, largely because of coal dust accumulations, killing 119 workers - 1951

This week in Labor History - Dec. 11