Today in 1987 OSHA adopts a grain handling facilities standard to protect 155,000 workers at nearly 24,000 grain elevators from the risk of fire and explosion from highly combustible grain dust.
• Teamsters at Republic Services authorize a strike • Washington Senate votes to ban ‘captive audience meetings’ • US flight attendants picket at 30 major airports • California fast-food workers launch new union • Brewery strike looms at Molson Coors plant in Texas • 1,700 Disneyland employees announce plan to unionize • Journalists turn to picket lines as the news business ails • ‘Unions are laboratories of democracy’: Labor reporter on the power of Labor • Teamsters, lawmakers demand neutrality from Delta Airlines CEO • ‘If you get everything you ask for in a negotiation, you didn’t ask for enough.’ • Amazon joins companies arguing NLRB is unconstitutional • Washington State Teamsters lead the way with pro-worker bills • Anheuser-Busch Teamsters rally ahead of possible strike
