Today in Labor History Oct 9 Smith Barney a tentative sexual harassment settlement (never finalized)

[Omaha Steve]

October 9


October 9, 1874 - Mary Heaton Vorse was born in New York. She became a muckraking labor journalist and wrote eyewitness accounts of many important labor battles of her day. Her most famous novel, "Strike!" was made into a film in the summer of 2007.

United Hebrew Trades is organized in New York by shirtmaker Morris Hillquit and others. Hillquit would later would become leader of the Socialist Party - 1888

Retail stock brokerage Smith Barney reaches a tentative sexual harassment settlement with a group of female employees. The suit charged, among other things, that branch managers asked female workers to remove their tops in exchange for money and one office featured a "boom boom room" where women workers were encouraged to "entertain clients." The settlement was never finalized: a U.S. District Court Judge refused to approve the deal because it failed to adequately redress the plaintiff's grievances - 1997

3,300 sanitation workers working for private haulers in Chicago win a 9-day strike featuring a 28 percent wage increase over 5 years - 2003

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_10_09_2010