On this day in Labor History

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

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

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