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24 April 1980: Sabuk miners win strike
On this day, 24 April 1980, coalminers in Sabuk, South Korea, won all 11 of their demands from employers and authorities after a four-day insurrectio…
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23 April 1938: Jamaicans demand minimum wage
On this day, 23 April 1938, Robert Rumble's Poor Man's Improvement and Land Settlement Association sent a petition to the governor in Jamaica demandi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
22 April 1944: Thompsons cafeteria sit-in
On this day, 22 April 1944, 200 young Black people, mostly students at Howard University, held a sit-in demonstration at Thompson's, a segregated res…
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21 April 1894: US miners strike
On this day, 21 April 1894, a nationwide strike of coal miners in the US against pay cuts began. Despite the United Mine Workers union having only 20…
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20 April 1914: Ludlow massacre
On this day, 20 April 1914, the Ludlow massacre took place when US troops opened fire with machine guns on a camp of striking miners and their famili…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
19 April 1968: Valdagno textile strike
On this day, 19 April 1968, while 6,000 textile workers were on strike against redundancies in Valdagno, northern Italy, scabs were sneaked into the …
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18 April 1945: Turin general strike
On this day, 18 April 1945, workers in Turin, Italy, walked out on strike in protest at Nazi German occupation. Workers and resistance fighters distr…
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17 April 2016: Kuwait oil workers strike
On 17 April 2016 thousands of oil workers in Kuwait walked out on strike against government plans for privatisation of parts of the oil industry, and…
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16 April 1970: Chrysler workers strike
On this day, 16 April 1970, a white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a Black worker.
When the worker complained Chrysler w…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
15 April 1916: Domestic Workers Union
On this day, 15 April 1916, the newspaper of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers …
3 months, 4 weeks ago