May
| May 1 |
International Labor Day |
| May 1, 1830 |
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones born. |
| May 1, 1973 |
Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 2-708 strikes against Kerr-McGee
mines in Grants, New Mexico. |
| May 1, 2001 |
Sixty civilian commando pilot instructors strike against Lockheed-Martin
in Albuquerque. |
| May 3, 1919 |
Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist, born. |
| May 4, 1886 |
Haymarket Riot in Chicago. During rally for 8-hour day, a bomb
killed several police and the tragedy was used as an excuse to try
several labor leaders on murder charges and destroy the 8-hour day
movement. |
| May 5 |
Cinco de Mayo |
| May 9, 1972 |
Four thousand garment workers (mostly Hispanic women) at Farah
Manufacturing Company in El Paso strike for the right to be represented
by a union. |
| May 11, 1791 |
First U.S. building trades strike. |
| May 13, 1893 |
Western Federation of Miners organized. |
| May 14, 1996 |
UFCW Local 7 in Colorado strike. King Soopers-Safeway responds
by locking out 4,000 workers. |
| May 17, 1954 |
U.S. Supreme Court outlaws discrimination in public schools. |
| May 20, 1926 |
Railway Labor Act becomes law, provides for bargaining and prohibits
discrimination against union members. |
| May 21, 1946 |
Nationwide coal strike leads federal government to take over mines. |
| May 22, 1998 |
Han Young maquiladora workers in Mexico strike for an independent
union. |
| May 23, 1838 |
4,000 Cherokees die in the "Trail of Tears" forced removal. |
| May 24, 1948 |
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 96 is chartered in
El Paso, Texas. |
| May 31, 1921 |
Two Italian union activists, Sacco and Vanzetti, were framed on murder charges. |
| May 31, 1971 |
United Telegraph Workers Local 16 takes part in nationwide strike against Western Union. |
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