1919: US steel strike While defeated by overwhelming police repression against pickets and union halls, the 1919 strike is significant in the history of organized…
Rural mail carriers in Alberta wildcat Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers in northern Alberta, Canada Wildcatted on Monday September 24th. Mail delivery was cut off in Stony Plain,…
USA: Auto-workers on nationwide strike at General Motors Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors Corp. plants around the…
Calgary 1919: The Birth of the OBU and the General Strike - Eugene Plawiuk Eugene Plawiuk's history of the Calgary general strike of 1919, which started off as a sympathy strike for the Winnipeg general strike and soon escalated into their own struggle for union recognition.
The Edmonton General Strike of 1919 - Eugene Plawiuk Eugene Plawiuk's account of the Edmonton general strike of 1919 which was sparked off in solidarity with the general strike in Winnipeg,
Battle of Ballantyne Pier, 1935 - Sam Lowry A short history and background of the 1935 dockers' strike and subsequent bloody confrontation with police in Vancouver that became known as the…
Canada: carpenter's wildcat spreads to other workers 250 carpenters at the Petro-Canada site launched the wildcat strike after their planned strike was banned by anti-union laws.
Atlanta cabbies in wildcat strike Cabbies at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport went on a five-hour wildcat strike Monday that ended when airport officials agreed to…
Mexico: Union leaders accused of attacking their own members Striking teachers in Cuidad Juarez have accused union bosses of being behind an attack on them.
New York: Cab strike on the cards Up to 7,000 taxi drivers in New York are scheduled to stage a two-day strike on September 5-6.
Ending a war, inventing a movement: Mayday 1971 After SDS committed political suicide, and after the Jackson and Kent State shootings, one of the largest mass direct actions in US history took…
1886: The Bay View Massacre The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…
