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Making History and Breaking Barriers: The Women of White Pass 2025-02-08 [SMART]

Recently unionized home care workers in Alaska approve first contracts 2024-11-27 [SEIU775]

Recently unionized home care workers in Alaska approve first contracts 2024-11-27 [APR]

Anchorage journalists win union election, first in Alaska 2024-11-06 [CWA]

Anchorage Daily News newsroom planning to form union 2024-09-11 [Alaska Public Media]

Labor Contract on the Horizon for UA System Grad Student Employee Union 2024-06-26 [Alaska Business]

Interview with Rebecca Owens, flight attendant at Alaska Airlines and proud trade unionist 2024-04-20 [LabourStart Podcasts]

US Supreme Court rejects Alaska's bid to let state workers avoid union dues 2024-01-16 [Reuters]

Case at Supreme Court to test public employee right to not pay union membership dues 2024-01-05 [Must Read]

Skagway rail workers sign agreement with White Pass, averting possible strike 2023-07-29 [KTOO]

Union representing Skagway railroad workers authorizes strike 2023-07-12 [AL News Source]

Alaska seafood processing jobs draw workers from around the world through temporary work visa program 2023-07-07 [KDLG 670AM]

Massive Mat-Su union rally urges fair working contracts 2023-05-05 [ANS]

Teamsters Local 959 Alascom workers reach agreement with AT & T on new contract, avoid strike 2022-08-02 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

‘We Believe in Ferries': Alaskan Ferry Workers Walk Off the Job 2019-08-02 [Labor Notes]

Update: Wrangell prepares for municipal workers' strike 2017-06-20 [KSTK]

Alaska has nation's highest rate of workplace deaths 2019-04-30 [KTVA]

Seafood workers trade freedom for a paycheck this summer on closed campus 2020-09-02 [KFSK]

Already under siege, labor unions face a new threat from Alaska 2019-10-11 [NYT]

Already Under Siege, Labor Unions Face a New Threat From Alaska Governor 2019-10-09 [NYTimes]

Alaska labor deal reached to end 10-day ferry strike 2019-08-03 [Reuters]

Alaskan ferry workers end two-week long strike 2019-08-03 [KING5]

Union workers strike AMHS vessels 2019-07-26 [Cordova Times]

Alaska ferry workers go on strike for first time in 42 years: 'We have tried and tried to work with the state' 2019-07-25 [USAToday]

Ferry workers' union rejects contract terms, threaten Wednesday strike 2019-07-24 [KTUU]

Ferries risk shutdown over strike threat 2019-07-24 [KRBD]

Faculty union fears loss of accreditation if financial exigency is declared 2019-07-10 [KTUU]

Healing the Helpers: Why Workplace Wellness for Child Protection Workers Matters 2019-05-04 [KTUU]

Alaska Labor Union Sues To Block Privatization Of Hospital 2019-04-20 [KFQD]

Labor union sues to block privatization of hospital 2019-04-18 [WATE]

Union head: Dunleavy budget rips apart the fabric of Alaska 2019-02-27 [KTVA]

AK AFL-CIO says budget cuts would be a savage attack on Alaska's jobs 2019-02-27 [KTUC]

Alaska Airlines union workers picket for better wages 2018-09-11 [KTOO Public Media]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]