June
| June 1, 1903 |
3,500 immigrant miners start Clifton-Morenci, Arizona
copper strike. |
| June 1, 1922 |
National rail strike. |
| June 1, 1966 |
Starr County strike near Rio Grande City, Texas, for higher wages
for melon workers. |
| June 2, 1924 |
Native Americans granted citizenship. |
| June 3, 1900 |
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (now part of UNITE)
founded. |
| June 3, 1974 |
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 412 strike against New Mexico Mechanical
Contractors Association for wage increase. |
| June 5, 1968 |
Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated. |
| June 6, 1996 |
Labor Party founded. |
| June 7 |
Freedom of the Press day. |
| June 7, 1904 |
Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to suppress Western Federation
of Miners strike. |
| June 8, 1852 |
First American labor strike in San Francisco; Chinese laborers
demand pay increase. |
| June 8, 1904 |
Strike in Dunnville, Colorado ends with 6 union members dead and
15 taken prisoner. |
| June 9, 1963 |
Equal Pay Act enacted - prohibits pay discrimination against women. |
| June 9, 1999 |
More than 750 attend rally of Albuquerque Bus Drivers (United Transportation
Union Local 1745), City Workers (AFSCME Local 624), and City Letter
Carriers (NALC Local 504) demanding real collective bargaining for
New Mexico public employees. |
| June 10, 1904 |
79 striking miners in Dunnville, Colorado deported to Kansas. |
| June 10, 1974 |
Gypsum Workers Local 419 of New Mexico strike against American
Gypsum Company. |
| June 15, 1990 |
Justice for Janitors Day established. |
| June 16, 1993 |
National Industrial Recovery Act guarantees right to bargain and
organize. |
| June 19, 1896 |
Unsuccessful mine strike begins in Leadville, Colorado. |
| June 20, 1893 |
Eugene Debs forms American Railway Union. |
| June 20, 1941 |
Henry Ford recognizes the United Auto Workers. |
| June 21, 1964 |
Civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murdered in
Mississippi. |
| June 22, 1877 |
Eleven Molly McGuires hung for their part in Pennsylvania coal
strike. |
| June 23, 1947 |
Taft-Hartley Act passed over President Truman's veto. |
| June 25, 1938 |
Fair Labor Standards Act passed; provides 40-hour week and minimum
wage; bans child labor. |
| June 26, 1917 |
Miners' strike in Bisbee, Arizona. |
| June 27, 1869 |
Emma Goldman, anarchist and labor activist, born. |
| June 27, 1880 |
Helen Keller, socialist and labor activist, born. |
| June 27, 1905 |
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) founded. |
| June 28, 1894 |
Labor Day declared official U.S. holiday. |
| June 28, 1969 |
Stonewall Riot in New York City gives birth to the modern gay rights
movement. |
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