Today in 1959 A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees.
• The great escape • Rediscovering the power of the unions • Here’s why Gen Z is unionizing • A new regime at the Teamsters • A tax break for union dues • 30 things President Biden has done to help workers • They call her ‘Bus Driver’ and she calls them family • Study: Unionized construction offers better health, safety outcomes • The comic book industry’s next page-turner: union organizing • Judge orders Google to hand over their anti-union campaign documents • 7 legal reasons why every construction worker should join a union • Near strike by Hollywood crews could be sign of things to come • Seven on the strike line: Teamsters calling for better working conditions • HR advice to employers: Employers better off learning to work with unions
