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.
• Unionizing UnitedHealthcare • Senate bill seeks to ban all federal labor unions • VW cuts production in Tennessee, UAW files ULPs • Steelworkers react to 25% tariff on steel and aluminum • Teamsters drivers in CA ratify first contract with US Foods • O’Brien on Trump’s economic agenda: ‘They made a lot of promises’ • Teamsters-supported Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed as labor secretary • Teamsters HRDC memorialize events of “Bloody Sunday”:
