Aug. 22, 1986 The Kerr-McGee Corp. agrees to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. She was a union activist who died in 1974 under suspicious circumstances on her way to talk to a reporter about safety concerns at her plutonium fuel plant in Oklahoma.
• VT Digger: VT UPS Teamsters allege violations of FMLA • Labor Day 2025: More protests than parades and picnics • U.S. Transportation Dept: disbands advisory committees • Supply Chain Brain: Struggle to unionize Amazon warehouses • Peoples World: Airline pilots outraged at one-pilot proposal • Teamsters: 6,600 Union Pacific workers ratify 5-year contract • Labor Press: Veterans, union members fight back against efforts to privatize VA • Reuters: Air Canada labor deal may reshape pay for North American Airlines • NYT: Trump promised a ‘golden age’ for industry. Then a Montana lumber plant closed down • Teamster: 50 Arena League football players, coaches score Teamster membership • Guardian: White House cancels union contracts for hundreds of thousands federal workers • Better Bad Ideas — Sean O’Brien interviews Sean O’Brien interviews union bricklayer jumped for trying to organize
General Membership Meetings
are suspended for the summer months
of June, July and August, per the
unanimous vote of members
at the May 18, 2025 meeting.
Dates for the September meetings
will be posted in August.
