Tag Archives: Strikes

1984: Try Again Jack

Posted on November 25, 2021 by corvusfugit

“Blind workers on strike; A guide dog leads employees of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and supporters in a picket at the organization’s offices on Bayview Ave.; south of Lawrence Ave. yesterday. They are members of Local 204 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1159 BC: The First Strike in History

Posted on September 7, 2020 by corvusfugit

In his first two decades on the throne, Ramesses III had repelled invasions, restored Egypt’s temples and re-established national pride. The court now looked forward to the king’s thirty-year jubilee, determined to stage a celebration worthy of so glorious a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

1937: Local 174

Posted on December 15, 2019 by corvusfugit

This mural showing the early history of UAW local 174 was painted by Walter Speck and Barbara Wilson in 1937 and originally hung in the local’s union hall at 2730 Maybury Grand St., in Detroit, Michigan. After moving with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery

Posted on November 29, 2019 by corvusfugit

In 1942, in an effort to avoid strikes in war-related industries, Franklin Roosevelt reinstated the War Labor Board and directed it to oversee and arbitrate negotiations between unions and employers. Most unions had also agreed not to strike during the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1959: Capital and Labor

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.              

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1954: Zombies, Unite!

Posted on September 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:            

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1987: Basebenzi Masimanyane

Posted on May 11, 2019 by corvusfugit

Congress of South African Trade Unions: 1987 Calendar In 1987, COSATU conducted a two-day strike during the general elections in May as part of its Living Wage Campaign. More than 2.5 million workers took part. Later that month, their headquarters … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1865: An Army of Striking Labor

Posted on April 28, 2019 by corvusfugit

In Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois argues that a “general strike” by millions of enslaved African-Americans decided the outcome of the civil war. By rebelling against their masters, abandoning southern plantations, contributing their labor to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1750 BC: Let Man Bear the Load of the Gods!

Posted on April 20, 2019 by corvusfugit

In one of the oldest surviving creation myths, humankind originates from a labor action. The story, told in the Babylonian Atrahasis Epic, goes like this: long before humankind, only gods exist, with some more powerful than others. These greater gods—the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1973: First Strike in Space

Posted on December 30, 2018 by corvusfugit

On December 28, 1973, the crew of Skylab 4 went on strike, shutting off radio communications with NASA ground control to protest their grueling working conditions. The three astronauts—Gerald Carr, William Pogue, and Edward Gibson—left Earth on November 16, 1973, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment