1993 Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1987 I. W. Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1971 Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68
1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street
1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
1970 Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered
1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands
1956 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1952 M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S.
1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam
1946 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike
1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1944 Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala
1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
1943 Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1940 Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1939 Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
1936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1932 200,000 English textile workers strike
1929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1927 Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers
1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1925 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party
1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1921 Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
1921 Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages
1917 Limburgse mine workers strike
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers
1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers
1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1913 Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers
1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia
1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1904 W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
1903 Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers, New York, actress, Fast Workers, Hold Your Man
1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City)
1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania fire on scabs, killing 7
1890 United Mine Workers of America forms
1889 Chaplain Ariens founds 1st roman catholic workers group
1889 Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1885 Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party
1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York
1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1866 John Eigenhuis, writer, Tough Workers
1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
1862 Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie, Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1805 Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary, workers' leader
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