Week in Labor History |
|
Friday: Official formation of the Painters Int’l Union (1887); Supreme Court approves 8-Hour Act under threat of a national railway strike (1917); Bituminous coal miners begin nationwide strike, demanding adoption of a pension plan (1948); The Wall Street Journal exposes insider stock deals at the union-owned Union Labor Life Insurance Co.
|
Page Last Updated: Mar 15, 2013 (22:35:30)
|
|
|