Today in 1919 The Great Steel Strike began as roughly 350,000 to 400,000 steelworkers walked off the job across multiple states to demand union recognition, an eight-hour workday, and better wages from the U.S. Steel Corporation.
• Teamsters restructure Freight Division • Target workers are joining the union wave • What’s your rate of inflation? • Emboldened labor movement seeks to expand on successes • The new labor movement is young, worker-led, and winning • Letter carriers union conducts annual food drive, Stamp Out Hunger May 14 • UPS surpasses Fedex for top spot of world’s largest transportation companies • Labor board says Starbucks unlawfully fired 7 for union efforts. • Inflation explained: The real reason prices are going up –