Today in labor history Nov 13 Unionist Karen Silkwood dies in a suspicious car crash

[Omaha Steve]

November 13

259 miners died in the underground Cherry Mine fire. As a result of the disaster, Illinois established stricter safety regulations and in 1911, the basis for the state’s Workers Compensation Act was passed - 1909

A Western Federation of Miners strike is crushed by the militia in Butte, Mont. - 1914

GM workers’ post-war strike for higher wages closes 96 plants - 1945

November 13, 1974 - Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood was killed during investigation of a Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in Oklahoma. Her car went off the road when she was on her way to deliver documents to a New York Times reporter.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. The lives that were sacrificed so we could have unions, and the benefits they

have given us...
Unions must be preserved.