Labor History
The Occupational Safety and Health Act passed in this year (and decade).
What is 1970?
The UAW was founded in this decade.
What are the 1930s?
*1935
1100 Miners in Alabama are entering this many months on strike.
What is SEVEN?
Approximately this percentage of IATSE members turned out for the strike authorization vote.
90%
OFNHP is part of the healthcare division of this larger union.
What is AFT?
In 1949, the CIO expelled this many unions for their support for the Communist Party.
What is two?
*United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America and the Farm Equipment Workers
This percentage of voting members at John Deere facilities voted YES to authorize a strike.
What is 99%?
The union representing Kellogg Workers on strike in Battle Creek, MI.
What is BCTGM?
Approximately this percentage of IATSE members who turned out voted YES to authorize a strike.
99%
OFNHP members voted to authorize a strike on this date.
What is Monday, October 4, 2021?
The "New York shirtwaist strike" from November 1909 to March 1910 saw this many workers go on strike. The majority of strikers were young women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years old.
What is 20000?
Eligible members get a weekly pay of this amount from UAW Strike Assistance.
$250
*To be eligible for strike pay and benefits, members must be:
More than 350 healthcare workers of this major health company went on strike in Antioch, CA
The number of IATSE locals in Portland, OR.
Two
Local 28 (Mixed) and Local 488 (Studio Mechanics)
OFNHP is a union of more than 5000 workers in these two states.
What is Oregon and Washington?
This state became the first to adopt a ten-hour workday law.
What is New Hampshire?
Members at all John Deere locations have an opportunity to meet and review the terms of their proposed contract on this date.
What is October 10, 2021?
Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA have been on strike for this many days.
What is 200?
There are this many IATSE locals in the state of Oregon
11
OFNHP was founded in this decade.
What are the 1970s?
1979.
In this decade, female textile workers in Lowell, MA formed the Factory Girls' Association which organized a 1500+ worker strike which went on for weeks with community support until the textile mills' Board of Directors rescinded a rent hike.
What are the 1830s?
*an eleven-year-old doffer at the time of the strike, recalled in her memoirs: "One of the girls stood on a pump and gave vent to the feelings of her companions in a neat speech, declaring that it was their duty to resist all attempts at cutting down the wages. This was the first time a woman had spoken in public in Lowell, and the event caused surprise and consternation among her audience."
The last time UAW workers at John Deere went on strike was for this many days in 1986.
What is 163?
450 workers of this union are on strike at Special Metals in Huntington, WV
What is United Steelworkers?
*Local 40
A group of seventeen delegates from Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Syracuse met in New York for the first convention of the National Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in the this decade.
What are the 1890s?
Some OFNHP RNs working at Kaiser Permanente are under a dual-membership agreement with this union.
What is ONA?
Oregon Nurse's Association