BC Fed. of Labour condemns sexual harassment

After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts - 1978

Take This Job and Shove It, by Johnny Paycheck, is listed by Billboard magazine as the most popular song in the U.S. - 1978

The Federal minimum wage rises to $2.65 an hour - 1978

Eight female bank tellers in Willmar, Minn. begin the first strike against a bank in U.S. history. At issue: they were paid little more than half what male tellers were paid. The strike ended in moral victory but economic defeat two years later - 1977

United Mine Workers begin what is to become a 110-day national coal strike - 1977

Boot Shoe Workers' Union merged with Retail Clerks International Union - 1977

Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand people worked on building the pipeline, history's largest privately-financed construction project – 1977

Philadelphia’s longest transit strike ends after 44 days. A key issue in the fight was the hiring and use of part-timers - 1977

Legal secretary Iris Rivera fired for refusing to make coffee; secretaries across Chicago protest - 1977

5,000 union construction workers in Oahu, Hawaii march to City Hall in protest of a proposed construction moratorium by the City Council - 1976

More than 1 million Canadian workers demonstrate against wage controls - 1976