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
• Biden: ‘Union workers are the best’ • Women speak up about harassment in trucking • Apple store in Maryland third to launch union drive • Not everything sucks. Organized labor is rising • Amazon urged to fight on after Staten Island push fails • Starbucks win an election in Baltimore, two in Metro DC • What unions are doing to protect American democracy • Women truckers challenge industry to end harassment, violence on the job • Frontline workers excluded from employer pandemic windfalls. No wonder so many are forming unions.