September 18 --
The Teamsters for a Democratic Union
(TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention, during a period of
serious corruption in the union. Two years earlier at an IBT convention
in Las Vegas, a union reform leader who (unsuccessfully) called for
direct election of officers and a limit on officers’ salaries had been
beaten by 
thugs - 1978
thugs - 1978
Nine strikebreakers are killed in an
explosion at Giant (gold) Mine near Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest
Territories. Miner Roger Warren confessed that he planted the explosives
that caused the deaths. He recanted the confession but later confessed
once again - 1992
A 20-month illegal lockout of 2,900 Steelworkers members at Kaiser Aluminum plants in three states ends when an arbitrator orders a new contract. Kaiser was forced to fire scabs and fork over tens of millions of dollars in back pay to union members - 1999
One week after the September 11, 2001, attacks, anthrax spores are mailed by an unknown party to several news media offices and two U.S. senators. Five people exposed to the spores died, including two workers at Washington, D.C.’s USPS Brentwood facility: Thomas Morris Jr. and Joseph Curseen - 2001
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