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Omaha Steve

(103,297 posts) Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:56 PM Jan 2016

1-30-16 Chicago Gravediggers End 43 day Strike in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/january-30-2016-chicago-gravediggers-end-43-day-strike/

January 30, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1992. That was the day that the gravediggers of Chicago ended their forty-three day strike. The United Press International’s headline declared, “The dead will rest in peace now that Chicago-area gravediggers have reached a tentative contract.” The gravediggers were part of Service Employees International Union Local 106.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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