Today in History
28 February 2010
February 28, 1986 - The entire workforce of the 3M factory in Elandsfontein, South Africa, walked off their jobs to support the 450 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union who were being laid off at a 3M plant in New Jersey. The South African workers -- all of them black -- were among the hundreds of thousands of union members whose militancy helped bring down the apartheid system.
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