Local 22 Tobacco Strike
Channel: Union of Southern Service Workers
Date: 2023-06-17

On this day in Southern Labor History: On June 17, 1943, United Tobacco Workers Local 22 in Winston-Salem, NC started a sit-down strike against the R.J. Reynold company that was part of  a multiracial working-class coalition of unionists and civil rights activists fighting not only for the rights of working people, but also for the rights of Black people.

The sit-down strike and actions that would occur after, primarily organized and led by Black women who processed the Tobacco, were instrumental in winning the workers better conditions and wages.

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