After years of intensive lobbying by the labor movement, a comprehensive national safety law is enacted as President Nixon signs the Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970, creating the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) - 1970
More
than 15,000 United Steel Workers members at 16 Goodyear Tire &
Rubber plants end an 86-day strike, ratify three-year contract - 2006
Today in #LaborHistory: Dec 29 -via- 'Rip's Roster'
1845 -- Texas enters the Union
1890 -- U.S. Army massacres 200 Oglala Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee
1891 -- Edison awarded a patent for radio.
1989 -- Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
1845 -- Texas enters the Union
1890 -- U.S. Army massacres 200 Oglala Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee
1891 -- Edison awarded a patent for radio.
1989 -- Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
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