Today in 1930 A 17-year-old Jimmy Hoffa leads his co-workers at a Kroger warehouse in Clinton, Ind., in a successful job action: by refusing to unload a shipment of perishable strawberries, they forced the company to give in to their demands.
• The ‘trashman’ who became an influencer • Unions get a little love • Crown of the contenders • The struggle to organize warehouse workers • Why Big Tech shouldn’t be scared of unions • The movement to end at-will employment just got serious • Union calls foul play as Amazon unionization vote fails • Teamsters Local 117 partners to vaccinate 500 working families • Newslight submits offer to buy Baltimore Sun parent company • The most obvious and brilliant idea to revive organized labor, fast • Minimum wage would be $44 if it grew as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985