Local story for me on how bad the Labor Unions fight was with Police doing the bidding of the companies in 1910. Bethlehem Steel had a strike, 9,000 workers co

Local story for me on how bad the Labor Unions fight was with Police doing the bidding of the companies in 1910. Bethlehem Steel had a strike, 9,000 workers complaining about the 12 hour work days and the unsafe work conditions. A policeman shot and killed union striker Joseph Szambo while he was drinking a beer and his wife gave birth to their child a few hours later. This caused Congress to get involved and to actually make Bethlehem Steel change their practices and the Labor Union won. http://bethlehem.thelehighvalleypress.com/2012/09/12/bethlehem-labor-martyr-remembered http://bethlehem.thelehighvalleypress.com/2012/09/12/bethleh... Now fast forward to the 1980s and Bethlehem Steel wasted millions in tax dollars on building a huge corporate office and didn't redo their old steel works and had to go out of business. People like to blame the Union but it was Corporate waste of resources that was the demise of the company. https://www.mcall.com/opinion/white/mc-bw-bethlehem-steel-plant-20150622-column.html https://www.mcall.com/opinion/white/mc-bw-bethlehem-steel-pl...