Today in labor history September 22

[Omaha Steve]

September 22

Emancipation Proclamation - 1862

Great Steel Strike begins; 350,000 workers demand union recognition. They call off the strike, their goal unmet, the following Jan. 8 - 1919

U.S. Steel announces it will cut the wages of 220,000 workers by 10 percent - 1931

Some 400,000 coal miners strike for higher wages in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and Ohio - 1935

OSHA reaches its largest ever settlement agreement, $21 million, with BP Products North America following an explosion at BP’s Texas City, TX plant earlier in the year that killed 15 and injured 170 - 2005

Eleven Domino’s employees in Pensacola, Fla. form the nation’s first union of pizza delivery drivers - 2006

San Francisco hotel workers end a two-year contract fight, ratify a new five-year pact with their employers - 2006