Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po? boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man.
Up to 40,000 New York construction workers demonstrated in midtown Manhattan, protesting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority?s awarding of a $33 million contract to a nonunion company.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in CWA v. Beck that, in a union security agreement, a union can collect as dues from non-members only that money necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative ? 1988