Today in labor history Oct 18 pay women school teachers a rate equal to that of men

[Omaha Steve]

Oct 18

The “Shoemakers of Boston” - the first labor organization in what would later become the United States - was authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony - 1648

New York City agrees to pay women school teachers a rate equal to that of men - 1911


IWW Colorado Mine strike; first time all coal fields are out - 1927

58,000 Chrysler Corp. workers strike for wage increases - 1939

October 18, 1943 - The Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee was officially dissolved and workers were given control over their own organization -- the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The UPWA merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen in 1968, which merged with the Retail Clerks to become the United Food & Commercial Workers in 1979.