Polish Solidarity union founder Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize - 1983

Insurance Workers International Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers International Union - 1983

Phelps-Dodge copper miners in Morenci and Clifton Ariz. are confronted by tanks, helicopters, 426 state troopers and 325 National Guardsmen brought in to walk strikebreakers through picketlines in what was to become a failed three-year fight by the Steelworkers and other unions - 1983