On this day in Labor History the year was 1906. That was the day the workers at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York organized a sit-down strike. It is considered to be perhaps the first time the sit-down tactic was used in the United States.
April 6 - Women Marching Off to Work
April 5 - One Day Longer
April 4 - A Day of Mourning
April 3 - I’ve Been to the Mountain Top.
April 2 - The First Woman in Congress
April 1 - Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
March 31 - The Cowboy Strike
March 30 - The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster
March 29 - The Union of Wall Street
March 28 - Overcoming Division
March 27 - Overriding the NLRB
March 26 - Gompers Embraces Anti-Immigrant Legislation
March 25 - Tragic, Devastating and Preventable
March 24 - Dorothy Height is Born
March 23 - Freedom of Speech?
March 22 - A Big Damn Deal
March 21 - The Beginning of the End of Apartheid
March 20 - The Birth of the Republican Party
March 19 - The Tree of Solidarity
March 18 - Dancing in the Streets
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