Labor Day is always the first Monday in September. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

"All labor has dignity." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

Since tailors with adequate training and experience were hard to find, the business owner complied with the tailors' demands. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

40% of Florida's teachers went on strike over funding for classrooms and salaries. That's over 27,000 educators! #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

Baseball players went on strike from 1994-1995, causing the ‘94 World Series to be canceled. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

ACWA merged with International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in 1995 to create Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. UNITE then merged with Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union in 2004 to create UNITE HERE. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The women organized and fought back against wage cuts and 13-hour work days. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The Delano Grape Strike is known for revolutionizing the farm labor movement in the U.S. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

Settlers went on strike over being barred from voting due to not being of English descent. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The formerly enslaved Black women went on strike for fair wages and better working conditions after writing a letter to the mayor with their demands. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

This was the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The Wagner Act is also known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO represents more than half a million union members across more than 600 union locals. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The program offered temporary work permits to 5 million workers in 24 states. The program was terminated at the end of 1964. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The term first appeared in Henry's book "Cabbages and Kings." #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The organization fought to organize women into trade unions and lobby for women's suffrage. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

Athletes organized for better player salaries. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

1,300 Black workers went on strike after two sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death on the job by their garbage truck. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

The FLSA ensures youth can work safely without jeopardizing their educational opportunities. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation

Labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, played a crucial role in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. #BiteSizeLaborHistory #UnionEducation