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.

June 19 – Film Screening _Bisbee ’17_ | Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies

My time in Bisbee #Arizona is near anend but you can find me next month at the University of Mainz in Germany as a visiting fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational Studies! One of the events is a screening of #Bisbee17; another is a lecture abt #phelpsdodge so excited! #momprof #wiedersehen

Good morning archives! #amworking #pennstate #union #phelpsdodge #momprof