The seventh session for 2025 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor will be on 1946 Hawaiian Sugar Strike. This session with take place on Saturday November 8th at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT. This month’s class will work with the Asian American Friendship Congress to present this often forgotten but vitally important episode in labor history.
In 1946, 76,000 workers went on a 79 day strike against the “Big 5” Sugar monopolies of Hawaii. This strike, led by International Longshore and Warehouse Union under Harry Bridges, not only improved the working conditions of that plantation laborers, but transformed Hawaii from a semi-feudal society to a modern one.
The 1946 Hawaiian Sugar Strike was a heroic, class-conscious offensive by multi-ethnic plantation workers who shattered the monopolist sugar barons’ weapon of racial division. It was a major strike which successfully confronted feudalistic exploitation through disciplined, mass solidarity. Its triumph not only won tangible gains but proved the might of industrial unionism in confronting monopoly.
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