Today in 1959 A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees.
• One year after Janus, unions are flush • How to protect the right to organize • Pro women hockey players form a union • States with $15 min. wage laws have doubled • The man who put public-employee unions on the map • House passes bill to help workers with retirement savings • YRC Worldwide, Teamsters enter into five-year contract • Hoffa: Teens driving trucks interstate would jeopardize safety • Economists remain worried about slow-growing middle class
• One year after Janus, unions are 
