Her husband of 46 years, Julius Johnson, a retired administrative law judge for the Department of Labor, died last year.
Murray Gartner, one of the nation's top specialists in labor law, died on Saturday, June 25, of a massive aneurism, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.
John Gaherin, who in 1967 became management's first labor negotiator, died of Parkinson's disease on Cape Cod at the age of 85.
It's often assumed that the U.S. labor movement died a natural death, that it was made obsolete by globalization and technological change.
Ilona Karmel Zucker, a Holocaust survivor who based much of her writing on her experiences in Nazi labor camps, died on Nov. 30 in Cambridge, Mass.
G. Douglas Pugh, who started his career as a campaigner for civil rights and then ascended through the ranks of New York State government to hold major posts in labor relations, died on Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla., where he had a seasonal home.
Gustaw Herling, whose memoir, "A World Apart," was one of the first and among the most powerful and enduring accounts of life and death in the Soviet network of prisons and labor camps, died on Tuesday in Naples, Italy, the Polish Embassy in Rome said.
James Callaghan, the elder statesman of the British Labor Party whose three years as prime minister were marked by the infamous "Winter of Discontent" and tumultuous battles with the country's powerful labor unions, died at home in East Sussex, England, on Saturday, the eve of his 93rd birthday, a family spokeswoman told reporters.
Growing ever more unstable, he begins to see his own privileged class as cannibals, dining on the immigrant wretches who labor and die in the mills and meatpacking plants in order to provide the fine houses and expensive clothes that our narrator enumerates so lovingly.
The high rate of infection has resulted in an estimated 5.8% of the farm labor force dying of the disease.
But, in the midst of the family's Purim celebration, Shira's older sister goes into labor and dies during childbirth.
