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The Tampa cigar makers' strike took place in Ybor City, Florida from November to December 1931. It was made up of a highly unionized, militant cigar maker workforce who had a long history of radical labor–management relations dating back to the 1880s when Cuban immigrants first began building the Florida cigar industry. [2]
After passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, the first nationally known union busting agency was Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, Inc. (LRA) founded in 1939 by Nathan Shefferman, who later in 1961 wrote The Man in the Middle, a guide to union busting, and has been considered the 'founding father' of the modern union avoidance industry. [31]
Between 1930 and 1941, 27,000 work stoppages led to a loss of 172 million labor days, and about 90 deaths. [1] As the economy declined workers were angry but management was losing money and could not afford to raise wages, so the strikes usually failed. This caused desperation among workers and union leaders. [2]
The big story: When Florida lawmakers placed new restrictions on public sector unions this spring, teachers were among the groups to call the effort “union busting.” As the provisions take ...
1930 182,975 Imperial Valley lettuce strike; 1931 341,817 Santa Clara cannery strike; Ybor City cigar makers' strike of 1931; 1932 324,210 Century Airlines pilots' strike; Vacaville tree pruners' strike; 1933 1,168,272 1933 Detroit auto strike; California agricultural strikes of 1933; 1933 Wisconsin milk strike; 1933 Yakima Valley strike
In Houston, New Orleans, and other major docks along the Gulf Coast, strikes and other labor conflict had been a regular annual occurrence through the 1930s. [1] The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike of the previous summer, involving workers from both the ILA and the International Seamen's Union, had developed into a general strike in San Francisco, with encouraging results for dock workers.
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The number of union members nationwide increased from 2016 to 2017, and some states saw union growth for the first time in several years or decades. [196] Nearly half a million workers went on strike in 2018 and 2019, the largest numbers in three decades. [197] Union growth in 2017 was primarily millennial workers.