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Chicago was a major industrial center, and tens of thousands of German and Bohemian immigrants were employed at about $1.50 a day. American workers worked, on average, slightly over 60 hours during a six-day work week. [2] The city became a center for many attempts to organize labor's demands for better working conditions. [3]
May Day, or International Workers' Day was a day for remembering the workers who died during the Haymarket affair of 1886. [3] During a General Strike in Chicago, Illinois, an unknown person threw a bomb into the crowd, prompting police to fire into the crowd, killing civilians and police alike.
1977 Chicago gravediggers' strike, 55-day strike by cemetery workers in Chicago, United States. [20] 1977 Chilean hunger strike, strike by relatives of detainees disappeared by the Military dictatorship of Chile held in the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. [21] [22]
1905 Chicago teamsters' strike - The United Brotherhood of Teamsters started a strike in support for a small union of workers from Montgomery Ward but soon garnered support from most unions in the city. Riots occurred almost daily starting on April 7 and continued until late July.
1973 Israel doctors' strike, 29-day strike by doctors in Israel ove wages and working conditions. [60] [61] 1973 New South Wales beer strike, strike by brewery workers in New South Wales, Australia. [62] 1973 Soviet Jews hunger strike, 2-week hunger strike by seven Jewish scientists in the Soviet Union demanding to be allowed to emigrate to Israel.
A luxury cruise from South Africa to Argentina canceled its leg to Antarctica after an engine issue. Some passengers on the ship, the SH Diana, wanted more compensation to reflect their inconvenience.
Over Mother's Day weekend in 2001, 14 parents and grandparents organized a hunger strike to demand the construction of a high school that had been promised to the community but remained unfunded. While Paul Vallas, the CEO of Chicago Public Schools , initially refused to meet with the hunger strikers, by the end of the first week, he visited ...
Union leaders for Chicago's striking teachers on Wednesday approved a tentative labor deal negotiated with the school district but refused to return to work unless the mayor agreed to make up for ...