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Sept. 17, 1963
A Southern Pacific train loaded with sugar beets strikes a makeshift bus filled with 60 migrant workers near Salinas, Calif., killing 32. The driver said the bus was so crowded he couldn›t see the train coming. 

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Sept. 17, 2024 | STRIKES | […] Many of the 33,000 workers who went on strike last week after rejecting the company’s four-year contract offer said [the] sense of shared prosperity has all but evaporated in the past two decades. Company managers, focused on financial performance, won costly concessions from the union including ending traditional pensions and wage increases that have not kept pace with inflation. At the same time, the Puget Sound region experienced a tech boom that has sent housing costs skyrocketing. Reeling from the blows, bitter Boeing employees say they have been left behind even as executives claimed huge pay packages. The Washington Post
 
 
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