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Many left their jobs in protest over poor pay and expensive board — $1.75 a day for 10 hours of work followed by a night at an obligatory boarding house costing $5.25 a week. [17] Despite these labor concerns and some local enmity from residents who opposed noisy locomotives running adjacent to their property, construction ensued.
1953 California construction strike: 1953 Northern and Central California: 60,000 [3] [64] 1956 East & Gulf Coast longshoremen strike: 1956 East & Gulf Coast: 59,000 [28] 1969 UMW coal strike: 1969 56,200 [24] 1976 Rubber workers strike: 1976 nationwide 56,000 [17] 1958 Chrysler strike: 1958 55,000 [14] 1978 Southern California retail clerks ...
The picketers pulled back, unwilling to take on armed soldiers in an uneven fight, and trucks and trains began moving without interference. Bridges asked the San Francisco Labor Council to meet that Saturday, July 7, to authorize a general strike. [46] The Alameda County Central Labor Council in Oakland considered the same action. Teamsters in ...
None of these other labor disputes — from strikes at employers such as John Deere and the University of California, to walkouts and new organizing campaigns at companies such as Amazon ...
For data from 1881 to 1905 the Commissioner of Labor, then within the Department of Interior conducted four periodic surveys [a] covering that period. The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded.
Starting in 1868, the railroad crews set, and subsequently broke, each other's world records for the longest length of track laid in a single day. This culminated in the April 28, 1869, record set by Chinese and Irish crews of the Central Pacific who laid 10 miles 56 feet (16.111 km) of track in one day.
President Joe Biden asked lawmakers to head off a potentially crippling strike, under a labor law that has rarely been used in recent decades. How a railroad labor dispute ended up in Congress ...
The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes. Its provisions were originally enforced under the Board of Mediation ...