May 18, 1979 Oklahoma jury finds for the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood, orders Kerr-McGee Nuclear Co. to pay $505,000 in actual damages, $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination.
~ DC Labor
• Order free at-home Covid-19 tests here • Republic Services Teamsters approve TA, end strike • Union battle vs. corporate power isn’t a fair fight • America’s new class war: Organized Labor is back • CEMEX drivers protest lack of respect for organizing rights • Thieves are looting freight trains filled with UPS, FedEx, Amazon pkgs • Workers got fed up. Bosses got scared. This is how the Big Quit happened. • TA reached, workers end 10-day strike against grocery chain • Maryland tax deadline extended to July 15
