Today in labor history May 10 Judge frees United Airlines from responsibility for pensions!

May 10

Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah – 1869

May 10, 1876 - The Centennial Exposition, a display of America’s achievements in industry, science, agriculture and the arts, opened in Philadelphia. This paean to progress stood in sharp contrast to the shantytown just outside its gates, where the unemployed and homeless had yet to benefit from the industrial capitalism. Seven years earlier, on May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven into the track at Promontory Point, Utah, connecting the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads and creating the transcontinental railway system.

U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union - 1898

A federal bankruptcy judge frees United Airlines from responsibility for pensions covering 120,000 employees - 2005

Labor history found here: http://www.biglabor.com/history.php & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_05_10_2009

Just got home a little while ago...worked a 10pm-6am shift last night (these 10-6's are MURDER).

:patriot:

My shifts are 7:30 - 3:30 Sun-Thu with a paid lunch. Then there is overtime too.