Today in 1945 “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap announces he's restructuring the Sunbeam Corp. and lays off 6,000 workers—half the workforce. Sunbeam later nearly collapsed after a series of scandals under Dunlap’s leadership that cost investors billions of dollars.
• Pandemic fuels union interest • Four ways Biden wants to remake labor law • The labor movement's game plan for the Biden era • Teamsters condemn arrests of Hunts Point [NY] strikers • Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle • Maryland lawmakers consider protections for transit operators, others
• Pandemic 
