A group of about 80 tech contractors working for Google in Pittsburgh vote to join the Steelworkers in the hope of bargaining improved wages and benefits. Although working alongside full Google employees, the HCL Technologies subcontractors receive only a few of the normal Google perks. Google’s temporary, vendor and contract workers outnumber the company’s full-time employees. 2019

A Labor Day poll by the Gallup Organization find that 65 percent of Americans approve of unions, the public’s highest rating since 2003. Support for unions had been rising since hitting its lowest point of 48 percent in 2009. The highest approval ratings ever were in 1953 and 1957: 75 percent. 2020

Baxter Leach, a union activist who helped organize the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, dies in the city at age 79. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Memphis while there to support the strikers. 2019