October 09 --
United Hebrew Trades is organized in New
York by shirtmaker Morris Hillquit and others. Hillquit would later
would become leader of the Socialist Party - 1888
Retail stock brokerage Smith Barney
reaches a tentative sexual harassment settlement with a group of female
employees. The suit charged, among other things, that branch managers
asked female workers to remove their tops in exchange for money and 
one
office featured a "boom boom room" where women workers were encouraged
to "entertain clients." The settlement was never finalized: a U.S.
District Court judge refused to approve the deal because it failed to
adequately redress the plaintiff's grievances - 1997
one
office featured a "boom boom room" where women workers were encouraged
to "entertain clients." The settlement was never finalized: a U.S.
District Court judge refused to approve the deal because it failed to
adequately redress the plaintiff's grievances - 1997(Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace: Nearly every American woman will, at some point during her working life, be sexually harassed, according to Raymond F. Gregory, a lawyer specializing in employment and discrimination law. Unwelcome and Unlawful provides up-to-date information for those victims as well as for those suffering same-sex harassment and for male victims of sexual harassment. The author analyzes sexual harassment from the perspective of existing federal law and describes the legal rights that may be asserted by victims of harassment to obtain either injunctive or monetary relief.)
An estimated 3,300 sanitation workers
working for private haulers in Chicago win a 9-day strike featuring a
28-percent wage increase over five years - 2003
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