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July 15, 2025

Today in 1959

 Half-million steelworkers began what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. The strike occurred over management's demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management's ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery which would result in reduced hours or numbers of employees. The strike's affects persuaded President Eisenhower to invoke the back-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld the law. The union eventually retained the contract clause and won minimal wage increases. The strike led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in U.S. history, which replaced the domestic steel industry in the long run. 
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Hoffa: House Transportation Committee’s Bill Will Boost Safety, Good-Paying Jobs
Posted On: Jun 10, 2021
June 10, 2021 | INFRASTRUCTURE | In a statement released today on the passage of the $547 billion INVEST in America Act by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, President Jim Hoffa said, “For too long, elected officials have only talked about infrastructure investment but done little about it… This legislation is an elixir for our faltering transportation networks. Not only would it provide a safe and more environmentally-friendly way for people to commute or conduct their daily business, it would also allow greater and easier access. It would also train and provide good-paying jobs to workers using new technologies that will improve our way of life. Further, when it comes to the trucking and rail industries, the INVEST Act brings our members some much-needed change… Teamsters
 
 
Teamsters Local 355
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