- Home
- Introductory Essay
- Lives of the Sanitation Workers
- The Strike Begins
- Negotiations, Vigils, and Sandwiches
- The Macing March
- A Community Awakens
- A Nation Awakens
- Dr. King Arrives In Memphis
- Terrible Thursday
- The Men March, The Guards Watch
- I've Been To The Mountain Top
- Lorraine Motel
- Mourning
- Victory for Local 1733
- Impact on the South, 1968-1970
- Remembering Memphis
- Resources
- Credits/Contact
Victory for Local 1733
As mass meetings continued in Memphis, local merchants and Federal officials increased the pressure on Mayor Loeb and other city officials to settle the strike. Finally on April 16, city and union officials formalized a strike settlement. An agreement was adopted by city council by a vote of 12 to 1 and Mayor Loeb signed it. The agreement included fifteen cents per hour wage increase, dues check off, memorandum of understanding, promotion and an end to racial discrimination.
For a time, AFSCME 1733 became the largest single union in the city with 6000 members. Bill Lucy commented later that the strike went beyond Memphis, and a "new kind of respect and a new kind of recognition" for sanitation workers developed across the country.