@WILaborHistory

Dedicated to preserving and telling the stories of #workers and #unions in #Wisconsin. Follows and retweets do not mean endorsements.

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From the October 12, 1951 issue of the #Wisconsin CIO News. #history #laborhistory #organizedlabor #union #solidarity #1u
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#onthisday 1885, 2,500 Marinette-Menominee lumbermen walked off the job to support a reduction in workday hours. Mill owners locked out the #workers in an attempt to force acceptance of an eleven-hour workday. The lockout failed as many lumbermen simply moved away from the...
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area rather than agree to work eleven hour days. The employers were forced to negotiate with #unions and conceded to a ten-hour workday and cash payment for wages. Robert Schilling, the Knights of #Labor leader from Milwaukee (who was later to have a prominent role in the...
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fight for the eight-hour day in #Milwaukee in 1886) personally participated in the negotiations. "Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology" by Darryl Holter, pg. 24 #history #union #labor #organizedlabor #solidarity #strike #1u #laborhistory #wisconsin
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#onthisday 1958 4,000 members of @UAW Locals 95 (Fisher Body) and 121 (Chevrolet) at Janesville's two GM plants walked off the job as part of a national #strike over GM's refusal to agree to a contract patterned after those reached with Ford and Chrysler.
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The desired contract demanded pay increases of 24 to 30 cents an hour and raises in supplemental unemployment benefits and severance pay. #history #laborhistory #organizedlabor #solidarity #union #laborunion #1u
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WLHS board members @harveyjkaye and @prof_shelton on Movies vs. Capitalism talking about "Matewan." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #history #laborhistory #solidarity #organize #union #1u #organizedlabor #strike

Matewan (w/ Harvey Kaye & Jon Shelton)

Podcast Episode · Movies vs. Capitalism · September 4, 2025 · 1h 41m

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Some #local #labor #history from #minnesota. mprnews.org/story/2025/07/22… #laborhistory #strike #solidarity #union #1u #generalstrike

Riot guns and revolution: How a bloody 1934 workers strike in Minneapolis catalyzed the nation

A landmark 1934 Minneapolis strike made the city a union town and influenced national labor law. It was an outcome that seemed all but impossible in the first part of the decade.

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Last month we traveled to Eau Claire #wi to give a #labor #history presentation to the Greater West Central Labor Council and community members. Thanks for hosting us! #laborhistory #localhistory #union #solidarity #organizedlabor #1u
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#onthisday 1908 Italian rail yard #workers went on #strike at the Janesville Chicago & North Western operation. Workers refused to continue handling railroad ties treated with creosote, which can cause respiratory irritation and skin damage in hot weather. #solidarity #union #1u
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On this day in 1934 striking Kohler #workers and law enforcement had a significant and violent clash resulting in two #worker deaths. Walter H. Uphoff writes a detailed account of the incident in his 1966 book "Kohler on Strike: Thirty Years of Conflict," which is readily...
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available through the Milwaukee County Federated Library System as well as the Monarch Library System, serving Dodge, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Washington Counties. Uphoff's account is based on local journalism as well as his interviews with participants or observers.
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.@WUWMradio recently did a segment digging further into the #history of the Bay View Massacre. wuwm.com/arts-culture/2025-0… #localhistory #laborhistory #solidarity #union #1u

Where are the victims of the Bay View Massacre buried?

The Bay View Massacre was a pivotal moment in Wisconsin's labor and political history, but not much is known about the victims. In this "Bubbler Talk" we explore who they were and where they're...

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#onthisday 1934 three policemen and five office employees of the Horlick Malted Milk Corp. were injured when a crowd of #strike sympathizers stormed a motorcade of scabs entering the plant's main gate. Emerging from a crowd of 500 striking employees, the rioters overpowered...
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police escorts, shattered windshields and windows, and pelted officers with rocks. Police blamed Communist influence for the incident, and former Communist congressional candidate John Sekat was arrested in the incident. Employees of the plant were demanding wage increases and...
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recognition of the Racine County #Workers Committee as their collective bargaining agent. #history #laborhistory #localhistory #organizedlabor #solidarity #1u #union #laborunion #labor #organize
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A humorous item from "The Pavement Trail" (1946), a collection of the best original writings appearing in "The Daily Picket" bulletin published five times weekly for the @UAW Local 248 strikers at the Allis-Chalmers plant in West Allis. #history #laborhistory #solidarity #union
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#onthisday 1953 #Milwaukee brewery #workers began a 10-week #strike, demanding contracts comparable to those of East and West coast workers. The strike was won when Blatz Brewery accepted their demands, but Blatz was ousted from the Brewers Association for "unethical" business...
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methods as a result. The following year Schlitz president Erwin C. Uihlein told guests at Schlitz' annual Christmas party that "Irreparable harm was done to the #Milwaukee brewery industry during the 76-day #strike of 1953, and unemployed brewery workers must endure 'continued...
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suffering' before the prestige of Milwaukee beer is re-established on the world market." Read more: milwaukeejournalsentinel-wi.… #history #laborhistory #localhistory #milwaukee #mke #union #solidarity #organizedlabor #1u

out on strike

It was only a matter of time before it came to a, um, head.In the 1950

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