Today in 1930 A 17-year-old Jimmy Hoffa leads his co-workers at a Kroger warehouse in Clinton, Ind., in a successful job action: by refusing to unload a shipment of perishable strawberries, they forced the company to give in to their demands.
• Senate passes new Nafta, but much work remains • Getting the real facts: 10 journalism brands to follow • Improving federal law for pregnant workers • WNBA and players reach tentative 8-year labor deal • Steelworkers sue EPA to save anti-chemical disaster rule • State legislative staff in DE first in nation to seek to unionize • Why everyone should care who the new postmaster general is • FedEx mounts big-money push to counter unionization by US workers • One astounding chart shows why economic inequality has increased • House to vote on sweeping labor law reform by mid-February
• Senate passes new Nafta, but 
