Today in 1946 Hollywood's "Battle of the Mirrors" took place as picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions and competing IATSE union members used large reflectors to blind each other's camera crews during an outdoor film shoot.
• 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