While the recent removal of a homeless group s encampment on Sconondoa Street in Oneida, New York drew the ire of some area residents, Mayor Rick Rossi assures the public it was done because that encampment had become "a public safety issue, not only for neighboring citizens, but for the people and animals in the encampment as well."
Jeremy Brecher's history of the 1934 strike of dock workers and the San Francisco general strike it sparked, against casual hiring methods on the docks, which was bitterly opposed by employers, the state and the unions.