4-16-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1947 in 2:00 500-600 workers killed

[Omaha Steve]

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/april-16-1429159626/



April 16, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1947.

The day dawned unseasonably cool in Texas City, TX, a port city forty miles south of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico.

2:00 minute audio at link.

[sadoldgirl]

1. And 68 years later on the

same date Congress agreed to vote on the TPP on fast track.

How many people will suffer from that agreement in the
future?!

[WillTwain]

2. We do not need the NLRB.

Sarcasm.

[justhanginon]

3. How terribly sad. In 1947 I would have been just 11 years old.

I wonder how many of the men and women who lost their lives that day had children around that age who would never see their parent or parents again. And yet, even today, we have elected officials who would prefer that we get rid of just the type of regulations that could prevent another disaster like this from occurring. All in the name of more and more profit. Greed versus lives.

Thanks for posting. I was not aware of the details of this event although the name Texas City did have a familiar ring to it.