On this day in labor history, the year was 1937.That was the day the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on the case, West Coast Hotel v. Parrish. The ruling upheld a Progressive-era Washington sta

On this day in labor history, the year was 1979.That was the day The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor partially melted down near Middleton, Pennsylvania.A combination of equipment failure and human

On this day in labor history, the year was 1941.That was the day Indiana State Police began cracking heads of picketers in front of the Richmond International Harvester plant.The Farm Equipment Work

On this day in labor history, the year was 1946.That was the day Pennsylvania State Police attacked striking UE members at the gates of Westinghouse in East Pittsburgh.200,000 UE members went on an

On this day in labor history, the year was 1947.That was the day Centralia Coal Mine #5 exploded, killing 111 miners in Centralia, ILThe explosion occurred just as the day shift was ending. Those

On this day in labor history, the year was 1989.That was the day the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil in Prince Williams Sound, off the coast of Alaska.The ship ran agrou

On this day in labor history the year was 2005.That was the day 15 workers were killed and another 170 were seriously injured in an explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas.Workers were re-

On this day in labor history, the year was 1972.That was the day the Equal Rights Amendment passed the Senate and moved to the states for ratification.It had passed the House the previous fall.Alic

On this day in labor history, the year was 1947.That was the day President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835.It is commonly referred to as the loyalty order.It required the screening of

On this day in labor history, the year was 1905.That was the day a boiler explosion destroyed the R.B. Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts.The boiler exploded as workers arrived for the d