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Brian French was nearly crushed to death by a trash collection truck during a routine garbage run last winter. French was forced to react much faster than anyone should ever have to at 4 a.m. "I ...
The deaths of Cole and Walker proved to be the catalyst for the Memphis sanitation strike. On February 11, ten days after their deaths, union Local 1733 held a strike meeting where over 400 workers complained that the city refused to provide decent wages and working conditions. The workers wanted immediate action but the city refused. [7]
In February of 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe garbage truck equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Discouraged and outraged, sanitation workers formed a labor union to advocate their rights to higher pay and safer working conditions.
The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker. [1] [2] The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Department of Public Works as they demanded higher wages, time and a half overtime, dues check-off, safety measures, and pay for the rainy days when they ...
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Workers killed by authorities Notes August 8, 1850 Manhattan, NYC, NY: Garment Strike 2 At least two tailors died as police confronted a street mob of about 300 strikers, mostly German, with clubs. [2] These deaths stand as the "first recorded strike fatalities in U.S. history". [3] July 7, 1851 Portage, New York: Railroad Strike 2
In the late February incident, a truck registered to WGM ran over and killed Jose Abrego, a 19-year-old worker at the Pitman Family Farms chicken processing plant in Sanger, according to local ...