Today in labor history. August 10 The Air Line Pilots Association is founded at a meeting in Chicago attended by 24 activists from across the country - 1931 Hundreds of Transport Workers Union members descend on a New York City courthouse, offering their own money to bail out their president, Mike Quill, and four other union leaders arrested while making their way through Grand Central Station to union headquarters after picketing the IRT offices in lower Manhattan - 1935 President Roosevelt signs amendments to the 1935 Social Security Act, broadening the program to include dependents and survivors benefits - 1939 Construction on the St. Lawrence Seaway begins. Ultimately 22,000 workers spent five years building the 2,342-mile route from the Atlantic to the northernmost part of the Great Lakes - 1954 I.W. Abel, president of the United Steel Workers of America from 1965 to 1977, dies at age 79 - 1987 President Barack Obama signs a $26 billion bill designed to protect 300,000 teachers, police and others from layoffs spurred by budgetary crises in states hard-hit by the Great Recession - 2010
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:00:22 +0000
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