US Labor History
1960-1969
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
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
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
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
1965
- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee formed
- California Grape Workers' Strike
1966
- New York City Transportation Strike
1967
- Copper Strike begins
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
1969
- Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike
- Black Lung compensation bill passes in West Virginia after mass demonstrations by UMWA
members