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July 19, 2026

Today in 1944
Two ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny.

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Federal Labor Law Could Be Completely Upended By This Summer
Posted On: May 07, 2024
May 7, 2024 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | The country’s two richest men are quietly pressing what could be the biggest labor-law issue of the 21st century — a claim that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. And a Supreme Court case expected to be decided in the next two months could give a green light to the theories underlying this claim, throwing an enormous monkey wrench into labor relations both in workplaces that have a union and in those that don’t. “We’ve never had anything like this before in our history,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Courthouse News Service
 
 
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