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The 1872 New York City eight hour day strike was one of the first citywide strikes for the eight hour day in North America. More than 100,000 workers in total, across building and manufacturing trades participated in the strike. Initially it was successful in winning the eight hour day for many workers.
1962–1963: New York City newspaper strike; 1966: New York City transit strike; 1967: Taylor Law; 1968: New York City teachers' strike of 1968; 1970: Lincoln Hospital takeover; 1972: Professional Staff Congress, a trade union representing faculty of the City University of New York campuses, is founded; 1977: SEIU 32BJ; 1978: New York City ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
A union representing doormen and other apartment building employees in New York agreed to a new contract on Tuesday, after workers threatened a work stoppage that could have left luxurious lobbies ...
Starbucks workers in New York City have filed 14 more complaints alleging that the coffee giant violated the city’s labor laws.. New York’s Fair Workweek law says that employers have to give ...
The union has been pressing for wage increases of 77%, and its leader, Harold Daggett, doubled down on the demand as he spoke on the picket lines at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
It was the largest strike by female American workers up to that date. Led by Clara Lemlich and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and supported by the National Women's Trade Union League of America (NWTUL), the strike began in November 1909.
Forty years later, Katie Quan still vividly remembers the pivotal garment workers strike in New York City’s Chinatown. 40 years later, labor leaders remember NYC Chinatown’s garment worker ...