September 11 --
Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia end a 10-week strike after winning an 8-hour
day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned
stores, where they had been forced to shop. (Remember the song, "Sixteen
Tons," by coal miner’s son Merle Travis, in which there’s this line: "I
owe my soul to the company store.") - 1897
More
than 3,000 people died when suicide highjackers crashed planes into the
World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Among
the dead in New York were 634 union members, the majority of them New
York City firefighters and police on the scene when the towers fell -
2001
Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life Norma
Rae of the movies, dies at age 68. She worked at a J.P. Stevens textile
plant in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., when low pay and poor working conditions
led her to become a union activist - 2009
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