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R+L Carriers truck with tandem trailer, Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1965, Ralph L. "Larry" Roberts I and Ronald Campbell Jr. (1942-2020) purchased a single truck they used to haul furniture. This is when it was called R+L trucking, but Ronald Campbell Jr. left due to a worry that he wouldn’t be able to see his family.
1995 Boeing Strike: 1995 Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton) 32,000 - 34,000 2005 New York City transit strike: 2005 New York City: 31,000 2019 Stop & Shop strike: 2019 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut: 31,000 [34] 1946 New York City truckers strike: 1946 New York City & New Jersey: 30,000–35,000 1938 New York City truckers ...
Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911; 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike; Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912; 1912 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike; 1912 New York City waiters' strike; Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912; Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912; Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912
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In 1935, congress passed the Motor Carrier Act, which replaced the code of competition and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate the trucking industry. [7] In September 1938, a truckers strike began in New York City and shut down the city for weeks, demanding lower hours, as one of the biggest strikes that year. [8]
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 ...
The Washington state Supreme Court in 2021 ruled that the company's claims were preempted by a statute called the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), saying the company's loss of concrete was ...
“Chicago is a blue city and Illinois is a blue state but people are starting to wake up,” Brooks told The Post last week at his church. “It’s not about the person, it’s about the policies.