Monday, June 24, 2013

Today in Labor History

June 24  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.2013.06.24history-nestor

Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the Int’l Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880

Seventeen workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971

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