Big retailers worried about a strike or lockout that could cripple their supply chains have brought in as much merchandise as they could to protect themselves against any shortages should the West Coast ports shut down. Additional reasons for the big slowdown in imports last month, accordi...
Locally, the restaurant workers in Local 2 carried out a successful insurgency against a corrupt union boss in 1978 and elected a rank-and-file slate only to see the old guard co-opt the newly elected officials.Within a couple of years, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union had ...
Labor in 1934 Police shot at striking longshoremen in San Francisco on “Bloody Thursday,” killing two and wounding109 strikers.Violence broke out during a dock workers and longshoremen strike when strike breakers starting to move goods from the docks to warehouses. Bloody Thursday (1934). Cour...
Labor in 1934 Police shot at striking longshoremen in San Francisco on “Bloody Thursday,” killing two and wounding109 strikers.Violence broke out during a dock workers and longshoremen strike when strike breakers starting to move goods from the docks to warehouses. Bloody Thursday (1934). Cour...
Mendonca sought to strike a balance between reassurance and prudence. “I want to emphasize that there will always be economic ups and downs, but people will continue to visit our state as they always have,” he told a meeting of state agency heads gathered at the Capitol for an update on...
Streetcar workers in the Carmen’s Union, demanding a $3 per day for an 8-hour day, went on strike in San Francisco. Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, hired James Farley to break the union. Thirty-one people died from shootings and streetcar accidents and 1100 were injure...