Today in 1919 Seattle General Strike begins. The city was run by a General Strike Committee for six days as tens of thousands of union members stopped work in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen.
• 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
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