More than 40 construction firms, including Balfour Beatty and Sir Robert McAlpine, had been funding the confidential database, which recorded workers' trade union activities and conduct at work.
The company still bears the scars from a 2006 undercover operation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which secretly recorded workers stomping and throwing turkeys so violently that it prompted an investigation by the United States Department of Agriculture.
The 1890s recorded workers from the South West, places such as Gloucester and Devon, by the 1900s people came from North Wales, the lead mining area of Anglesey and the depressed slate-quarrying villages of Bethesda, Ffestiniog and Dinorwig.
The hidden camera worn by an employee at a Butterball turkey farm in North Carolina recorded workers stomping and kicking birds, throwing them by their necks into metal cages, and beating them with metal bars.
He records the workers on videotape, he said, to acknowledge their contribution to the fraternity.
And they point to the benefits, solid wages and clear record of worker safety at the plant.
The labor department subpoenaed Forever 21 for records on workers' wages and hours, then sued in federal court to get the company to comply.
In January 2009, court records show, workers at the nursing home reported that at times Ms. Lundquist "became jealous of her roommate, who she perceived sometimes got extra attention".
Coal mining in the United States, Mr. Goodell argues, is a greedy, dirty business with an appalling record on worker safety and environmental pollution.
