United States 1973

Synopsis

The Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) helped to initiate and pass the Union Shop Bill that became law in the state of Washington on 20 March 1973. A union shop agreement is a clause of a collective bargaining agreement whereby an employer hires persons without regard to their membership or nonmembership in a labor union that represents its employees, with the provision that the person hired must become a member of the union after a specified period. This union shop law for civil service employees was the first of its kind in the United States.

Timeline

• 1958: China's Mao Zedong proclaims the Great Leap Forward, a program of enforced rapid industrialization that will end a year later, a miserable failure.
• 1963: Assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November.
• 1968: Communist victories in the Tet offensive mark the turning point in the Vietnam...