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.
• Robert Reich: Why the PRO Act is critical • New Hampshire House votes against “right to work” • A simple solution to the labor shortage: Raise wages • Workers are gaining leverage over employers right before our eyes • Lewis Hine, photographer of the American working class • Corporations are co-opting mindfulness to avoid meeting workers’ needs • Amazon fired him. Now he’s trying to organize 5,000 workers in NY • Increase in wages to $15 an hour brings flood of workers to US businesses
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