Today in labor history, October 19, 1980: After twenty years of virulent anti-unionism, the J.P. Stevens & Co. finally signs its first-ever contract with the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union. The collective bargaining agreement covered more than 3,000 workers in ten plants in the Carolinas and Alabama.
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By happy coincidence, the Greensboro IWW Branch will be showing the film Norma Rae this evening. Organize the South!
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