March 18

Wal-Mart agrees to pay a record $11 million to settle a civil immigration case for using illegal immigrants to do overnight cleaning at stores in 21 states – 2005

Also on this date: Police evict retail clerks occupying N.Y. Woolworth’s in fight for 40-hour week. The Post Office’s first mass work stoppage in 195 years began in Brooklyn and Manhattan and spread to 210,000 of the nation’s 750,000 postal employees. The Los Angeles City Council passes the first living wage ordinance in California. As the Great Recession continues, Pres. Obama signs a $17.6 billion job-creation measure a day after it is passed by Congress.

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