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July 21, 2026

Today in 1877
The Great Railway Strike of 1877 is underway across several states. In Pittsburgh, militia bayoneted and fired on rock-throwing strikers, killing 20 people and wounding 29 others. The workers responded by forcing the militia to take refuge in a railroad roundhouse, and then set fires that razed 39 buildings and destroyed 104 locomotives and 1,245 freight and passenger cars.

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With Strong Union Support, Lawmakers Reintroduce the PRO Act
Posted On: Mar 07, 2025
Mar. 7, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | A bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., accompanied by other Democrats and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., reintroduced the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act, labor’s top legislative priority. Its prospects are uncertain at best in the Republican-led Senate and virtually dead on arrival in the highly partisan Republican-led House Education and the Workforce Committee. Even Sen. Bernie Sanders, (Ind-Vt) recognized the problem, by implication, when he mentioned that when he chaired the Senate Labor Committee in the last Congress, the panel approved it. What he did not say is that it was by a party-line vote. That won’t stop Sanders, the [AFL-CIO] federation, House Education and Workforce top Democrat Bobby Scott of Virginia and their allies from trying again. After all, the story they heard from Kieran Cuadras, of Wells Fargo Workers United, a Communications Workers-aided campaign, spurred them on. Peoples World
 
 
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