Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Not available on kolektiva.social.
kolektiva.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Kolektiva is an anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!

Administered by:

Server stats:

3.8K
active users

kolektiva.social: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.6

Public
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 6, 1978: President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to quash the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA had been on strike since December 1977, but rejected a tentative contract agreement in early March, 1978. Carter invoked the national emergency provision of Taft-Hartley and ordered strikers back to work. They ignored the order and the government did little to enforce it. By late March, they reached a settlement. Taft-Hartley was enacted in the wake of the strike wave of 1945-1946 and was designed to prevent solidarity strikes and General Strikes. The last General Strike in U.S. history (Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA) occurred just prior to Taft-Hartley.

On the first day of the general strike, crowds gather in the streets, blocking traffic in downtown Oakland. By Unknown - Oakland Museum of Californiahttp://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oakland_1946_General_Strikehttp://vm133.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/xtf/search?rmode=irle4&metacollection=irle4&sort=localuid&startDoc=21, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61220975
#workingclass#LaborHistory#strike
Public
Tim W RESISTS

@MHowell @MikeDunnAuthor I, for one, have no plan to respect the law if the so-called President doesn't.

MikeDunnAuthor

@tim @MHowell
No one should ever avoid a general strike, just because of this shitty law, even though that's what the unions have done for nearly 80 years. But to be successful, a general strike requires good organizing. Much harder to pull off as a wild cat. So, stay organizing now!

Mar 07, 2025, 01:33 AM·Public·Mastodon for Android
0boosts·2favorites
ExploreLive feeds
About