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Massacre of the miners
Young Frank, his father, and the families of all the Colorado miners on strike in the Ludlow tent colony are uncertain of their fate when the camp's guards attack during the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.
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Mountains of trash pile up in Philly amid city worker strike
Thousands of city workers in Philadelphia are on strike, leaving trash to pile up as they call for better wages and health insurance.
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Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968
\"In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests ... He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a ... combination of poetry and prose\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thousands of hotel workers strike on Labor Day weekend
Thousands of hotel workers walked off the job Sept. 1 in a stoppage that threatens to disrupt holiday travel.
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The last great strike : Little Steel, the CIO, and the struggle for labor rights in New Deal America
\"In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as \"Little Steel.\" The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two months a grinding struggle ensued, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. It was in many ways the last great strike in modern America. Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback at most for steelworkers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. However, The Last Great Strike tells a different story about the conflict and its significance for unions and labor rights. More than any other strike, it laid bare the contradictions of the industrial labor movement, the resilience of corporate power, and the limits of New Deal liberalism at a crucial time in American history\"--Provided by publisher.
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Did this year's strikes solve Hollywood's problems?
Hollywood’s historic dual strike effectively shut down the industry impacting more than writers and actors. Many of these people are behind-the-camera, blue collar crew. Will their working lives improve now that SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative deal?
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