Today in 1941 Wisconsin state troopers fail to get scabs across the picket line to break a 76-day Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee led by UAW Local 248. The plant remained closed until the government negotiated a compromise.
• Minimum wage gains shows power of workers • Last year’s longest strike just ended in victory • The women leading today’s historic labor movement • Democratic National Committee staff unionizes • NLRB recovers 6,000 jobs for illegally fired workers • Nurses union to feds: put people before profits in COVID fight • Teamsters rail union division joins largest U.S. transportation coalition • Dollar General illegally silences staff online, Teamsters say • The ‘Great Resignation’ can lead to great empowerment for all workers • The New York Times accused of interfering with union activism • Widespread discontent drove Labor’s advancement in the private sector in 2021
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