Collage of images from the Phelps-Dodge strike. Includes images of strikers with bullhorns, picket lines, police in riot gear, tear gas.

Today in #LaborHistory 7/1/1983: #Copper miners #strike against #PhelpsDodge in #Arizona. Gov crushed it with state #police & #NationalGuards. Scabs voted to decertify #union. Profits increased 15x. 1 of most effective #unionbusting campaigns since WWII, along with 1981 #Reagan #PACTCO mass-firing.