A 47-day strike at Greyhound Bus Lines ends with members of the Amalgamated
Transit Union accepting a new contract containing deep cuts in wages and
benefits. Striker Ray Phillips died during the strike, run over on a picket
line by a scab Greyhound trainee - 1983
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