April
| April 1, 1898 |
United Mineworkers of America win 8-hour day. |
| April 1, 1946 |
400,000 mine workers go on strike nationwide. |
| April 1, 1998 |
Sheet Metal Workers Local 49 strikes against Reliance Steel in
Albuquerque. |
| April 4, 1968 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated while supporting striking
AFSCME sanitation workers. |
| April 5, 1904 |
Telluride, Colorado mine strike is broken after 82 miners are deported. |
| April 10, 2000 |
Local 776, the "Fighting Machinists" of Fort Worth Texas, go on
strike against Lockheed. |
| April 11, 1974 |
Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 391 strike begins against Schwartzman
Packing Company in Albuquerque. |
| April 11, 1980 |
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulates
sexual harassment. |
| April 13, 1971 |
Retail clerks in Taos, NM, begin strike against Plaza Super Market
for higher wages; strike is won after 8 days. |
| April 14, 1930 |
John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" published. |
| April 15, 1889 |
A. Philip Randolph born. |
| April 20, 1914 |
Ludlow, Colorado Massacre. |
| April 20, 1999 |
Ten day sit-in by United Students Against Sweatshops. |
| April 20, 2001 |
Unionists rally against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). |
| April 22, 1526 |
First American "slave revolt," only 8 years after slaves transported
from Africa. |
| April 23, 1993 |
Cesar Chavez dies near Yuma, Arizona. |
| April 28, 1971 |
Workers' Memorial Day |
| April 28, 2000 |
San Mateo Mini-Park in Albuquerque is renamed Workers' Memorial
Park. |
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