Ratification of a new labor agreement at Titan Tire of Natchez, Miss. ends
the longest strike in the history of the U.S. tire industry, which began May
1, 1998 at the company's Des Moines, Iowa, plant ? 2001
Delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United (NNU) in
Phoenix, Ariz. unanimously endorse the creation of the largest union and
professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history. The
150,000-member union is the product of merger of three groups - 2009
African American delegates meet in Washington, D.C., to form the Colored National Labor Union as a branch of the all-white National Labor Union created three years earlier.