strikes

Today in labor history: Atlanta workers engage in sit-down strike

November 18, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Workers at the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia participated in a sit-down strike, which was part of a greater ongoing wave of labor organizing during the 1930s.

28 arrested so far in sit-down strikes at California Walmarts

November 14, 2014 By Combined Sources

The group was joined by hundreds of Californians who rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012.

Today in Labor History: Clayton Antitrust Act signed

October 15, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The Act established that unions are not conspiracies under the law and freed them to legally strike, picket and boycott employers.

Groundbreaking 1984 strike inspires organizing today

October 1, 2014 By Art Perlo

Despite current battles brewing, Yale's new president, Peter Salovey, came by to shake hands with each of the workers, recognizing the respect they had won in the hard fought 1984 battle.

Today in labor history: The UMW occupation at Pittston Moss 3 plant

September 17, 2014 By Barbara Russum

In 1989, 98 UMWA members and a minister occupied the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Virginia, the most important act of civil disobedience during the Pittston strike.