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On this day in Labor History

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June 23, 2021

The Trump-majority Supreme Court votes to overturn a landmark 1975 California law that gave union organizers the right to meet with agricultural workers on company property before and after work and during lunch, no more than 30 days a year. The California Supreme Court upheld the law the year after it was passed. 2021

June 16, 2021

Twenty drag queen performers at Spokane’s Globe Bar and Kitchen walk off the job in a protest over wages and conditions. In fact there weren’t any wages: performers’ only income was whatever tips they were able to collect. 2021

June 9, 2021

Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones is sentenced to 28 months in jail for corruption. He pleaded guilty a year earlier to embezzling more than $1 million over a nine-year period. “I failed the UAW. I let my union down,” he told the federal sentencing judge in Detroit. 2021

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