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July 15, 2025

Today in 1959

 Half-million steelworkers began what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. The strike occurred over management's demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management's ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery which would result in reduced hours or numbers of employees. The strike's affects persuaded President Eisenhower to invoke the back-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld the law. The union eventually retained the contract clause and won minimal wage increases. The strike led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in U.S. history, which replaced the domestic steel industry in the long run. 
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2018 Spring Golf Outing
Updated On: Jun 27, 2018

Congratulations to Shawn McCoy, Chris Mauer, Lance Miller, and Jason Swartzendruber (UPS/Baltimore), above, for their First Place win in the Local's bi-annual golf event held Saturday, June 23rd, at the Queenstown Harbor Golf Course in Queenstown, Md.

Teams teed off at 8:30 a.m. in a modified shotgun start format, finishing the 18-hole course in just over six hours. The morning's steamy drizzle gave way to sunny skies as golfers completed the course.

Second Place: (left) Pete Williams, Andrew Brown, Michael Lynch, Travis Charette (UPS/Hunt Valley) 

Third Place: (left, below) Tom Neff, Bob Willians, Craig Wilkerson, Tim Wojtek (UPS/Quad Ave.)

Long Drive: (below) Craig Wilkerson (UPS/Quad Ave.)

Close to Pin: (bottom) Charlton Plummer (Piedmont Airlines)

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