AANHPI History Calendar

· Sierra Nevada, California

Chinese Railroad Workers Strike

resistance

Some 3,000 Chinese workers building the Central Pacific's transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada walked off the job demanding higher pay and shorter hours-among the largest labor actions of the era. (Shares Jun 24 with the 1982 Chinatown garment strike.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • labor
Event type
  • labor action

Sources

  • pbs.org pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-chinese-workers-strike
  • mocanyc.org mocanyc.org/collections/stories/railroad-chinese-labor-strike-june-24th-1867

Also on June 24

resistance

New York Chinatown Garment Workers Strike

Up to 20,000 mostly Chinese immigrant women garment workers rallied and struck in New York's Chinatown, forcing employers to sign the ILGWU contract in the largest strike in Chinatown's history. (Shares Jun 24 with the 1867 Chinese railroad strike.)