Today in 1919 The Great Steel Strike began as roughly 350,000 to 400,000 steelworkers walked off the job across multiple states to demand union recognition, an eight-hour workday, and better wages from the U.S. Steel Corporation.
• Port employers ask NLRB to force dockworkers to bargain • 2nd Apple Store union secures contract • How humanoid robots will disrupt global labor • National Symphony Orchestra strikes the Kennedy Center • Amazon warehouse workers continue to make history • 7 corporations doing the most to undermine democracy worldwide • Charted: How American tech workers feel about joining a union • Kroger/Albertsons merger threatens to intensify price gouging • Boeing union members angry they lost their traditional pension plan • Teamster locals, defying ‘neutrality’ of national leadership, endorse Harris
