Sept. 17, 1963 A Southern Pacific train loaded with sugar beets strikes a makeshift bus filled with 60 migrant workers near Salinas, Calif., killing 32. The driver said the bus was so crowded he couldn›t see the train coming.
• The hidden costs of being an American worker • NLRB revises $13M calculations in Warrior Met strike • 1,200 at Teamsters Women’s Conference in Seattle • Workers plan to renovate Home Depot with a union • Yes, you can wear union gear to work. The NLRB says so • Rail workers have yet to vote; many remain skeptical • Deal averting railroad strike has potential to fall apart • After 64-day strike, Boston Starbucks workers declare victory • While fighting workers, railroads made $10B+ in stock buybacks • ‘No regard for the law’: Starbucks to deny union workers new paid leave benefits
