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On this day, 28 August 1968 in Chicago, Black bus drivers in the city went on wildcat strike against their racist union, the Amalgamated Transit Workers. While 80% of drivers were Black, the union leadership was white, and did not heed the concerns of Black workers. White scab drivers kept services running in wealthier areas. In this article about the Democratic National Convention protests the same day is a short history of the strike: https://libcom.org/history/chicago-1968 More info as well in our podcast about the strike wave at the time: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/22/e8-the-vietnam-war-strike-wave/

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