Today in 1986 The Kerr-McGee Corp. agrees to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. She was a union activist who died in 1974 under suspicious circumstances on her way to talk to a reporter about safety concerns at her plutonium fuel plant in Oklahoma.
• VT Digger: VT UPS Teamsters allege violations of FMLA • Labor Day 2025: More protests than parades and picnics • U.S. Transportation Dept: disbands advisory committees • Supply Chain Brain: Struggle to unionize Amazon warehouses • Peoples World: Airline pilots outraged at one-pilot proposal • Teamsters: 6,600 Union Pacific workers ratify 5-year contract • Labor Press: Veterans, union members fight back against efforts to privatize VA • Reuters: Air Canada labor deal may reshape pay for North American Airlines • NYT: Trump promised a ‘golden age’ for industry. Then a Montana lumber plant closed down • Teamster: 50 Arena League football players, coaches score Teamster membership • Guardian: White House cancels union contracts for hundreds of thousands federal workers • Better Bad Ideas — Sean O’Brien interviews Sean O’Brien interviews union bricklayer jumped for trying to organize
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General Membership Meetings Baltimore - Sept. 7 @ 10 am
Salisbury - Sept. 21 @ 10 am Please be present and on time.
