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Today in labor history: Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike takes place
August 13, 2013The Post-Intelligencer is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which, at the time, was notorious for anti-unionism and anti-communism.
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United Mine Workers of America reaches settlement with Patriot Coal
August 12, 2013"After several weeks of nearly around-the-clock negotiations, I believe we have reached something that can be taken to the membership for ratification."
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Today in labor history: California school workers organize union
August 9, 2013On Aug. 9, 1927, 10 school custodians met in Oakland, Calif., to form what was to become the 230,000-member California School Employees Association, representing school support staff throughout the state.
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Today in labor history: Mexican leader Emilano Zapata born
August 8, 2013Zapata headed the land reform struggles of Mexican farmers and was a leader of the Mexican revolution.
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Today in labor history: No more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis
August 6, 2013The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.
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As groups converge on Chicago, watchdogs expose ALEC slush fund
August 5, 2013ALEC is running a secret, multi-million dollar slush fund that pays for lavish junkets for state lawmakers and has lied to the IRS.
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Today in labor history: Workers’ rule crushed in Hungary
August 5, 2013On August 7, 1919, the Republic of the Councils of Hungary in Budapest was crushed by foreign reactionaries.
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Today in labor history: first general strike in Canada held
August 2, 2013The first general strike in Canadian history was held in Vancouver on this day in 1918, organized as a 1-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labor activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin.
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