US Labor History
1960-1969
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- 1960
- President John F. Kennedy is elected
- Civil rights sit-in begins at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro,
North Carolina
- Negro American Labor Council founded
- General Electric Strike
- Seamen's Strike
- Mother Jones , UMWA organizer, dies at age 100
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- 1962
- Presidential executive order gives federal employee's unions the
right to bargain with government
- agencies
- New York City Newspaper Strike begins
- East Coast Longshoremen's Strike
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- 1963
- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
- Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
- Congress passes Equal Pay Act prohibiting wage differentials based
on sex for workers
- covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act
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- 1964
- President Lyndon B. Johnson is reelected
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars discrimination in employment
on the basis of race, color,
- religion, sex, or national origin
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- 1965
- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee formed
- California Grape Workers' Strike
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- 1966
- New York City Transportation Strike
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- 1967
- Copper Strike begins
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- 1968
- President Richard M. Nixon is elected
- Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assasinated while
supporting a strike by Memphis,
- Tennessee, sanitation workers.
- New York City Teachers' Strikes
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- 1969
- Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike
- Black Lung compensation bill passes in West Virginia after mass
demonstrations by UMWA
- members
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