Today in 1963 A Southern Pacific train loaded with sugar beets strikes a makeshift bus filled with 60 migrant workers near Salinas, Calif., killing 32. The driver said the bus was so crowded he couldn›t see the train coming.
• US Foods drivers in Delaware vote to join Local 355 • Alabama’s coal miners are striking for their lives • We need labor lawyers on the bench • What the rich don’t want to admit about the poor • Why oil worker unions back clean energy • The Amazon that customers don’t see • 5 big upcoming Supreme Court decisions • It used to be that labor strikes were big national news • Unions take PROAct campaign to Amazon, Sen. Mark Warner • Amazon, sued repeatedly for lost wages, avoids paying workers for long waits and walks • The roots of today’s white-collar union wave are deeper than you think • Where to celebrate Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Maryland
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