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October 30
Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs - 1986
October 30, 2001 - Unions representing workers at Northwest Airlines and other Minnesota carriers called on Congress to pass legislation to have the federal government operate security at airports. Despite Bush administration opposition, the security operations were federalized, but Bush then took away the workers’ union rights under the guise of national security.
Labor history found here:
http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here:
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_10_30_2010
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