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Today in labor history, July 30, 1983: Copper miners in Arizona begin what will be a nearly three-year-long strike against the Phelps Dodge Corporation. Thousands of miners walked off the job and within days, the workers were subject to unlawful arrests, firings, evictions, and undercover surveillance. When injunctions banned union men from picketing, their wives and daughters took their place on the line.
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“Welcome to Poland U.S.A.” - so, so cool to see that people really were paying attention to the workers strikes in...
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