Today in 1966 “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap announces he is 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.
• Biden: ‘Union workers are the best’ • Women speak up about harassment in trucking • Apple store in Maryland third to launch union drive • Not everything sucks. Organized labor is rising • Amazon urged to fight on after Staten Island push fails • Starbucks win an election in Baltimore, two in Metro DC • What unions are doing to protect American democracy • Women truckers challenge industry to end harassment, violence on the job • Frontline workers excluded from employer pandemic windfalls. No wonder so many are forming unions. • A new vision for the Motion Picture Division
