Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016. 47-2152 Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems. Includes sprinklerfitters.
A contemporary hunger strike in Poland. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food.
1 American Labor on the Rise. 2  Protest Against Police Brutality. 3  The Haymarket Bombing. 4  Labor Unionists and Anarchists Blamed. 5  Trial and Executions of the Anarchists. 6  The Haymarket Case Was Reviewed. 7  Haymarket Riot a Setback for American Labor. It was never officially determined who threw the bomb in Haymarket Square, but that didn't matter at the time. Critics of the American labor movement pounced on the incident, using it to discredit unions by linking them to radicals and violent anarchists.