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The latest union shop on Broadway? Phoenix Comics workers organize for retail representation 2024-02-06 [Capitol Hill Seattle Blog]

Concession workers vote to authorize strike at Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix 2023-09-03 [12News]

Arizona Teamsters Ready to Strike for First Contract at Republic Services 2023-07-14 [Teamsters]

‘A step in the right direction’: UA to increase minimum wage for staff, student workers in July 2023-02-05 [The Dailyu Wildcat]

The unionization of Starbucks stores is a step in the right direction 2022-08-19 [Daily Wildcat]

As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over … lives' 2020-08-18 [AZ Central]

Arizona's workers need unemployment insurance reform — now 2020-06-01 [AZ Ctr Am Progress]

AZ health care workers face ‘catastrophic' conditions amid surge in COVID cases 2020-12-31 [PBS]

Understanding workers' rights in AZ 2019-10-13 [AZ Public Media]

We Are Republican Teachers Striking in Arizona. It's Time to Raise Taxes. 2018-05-01 [NYTimes]

AZ Bd of Ed strips Little Rock teachers' union bargaining power 2019-10-13 [SW Times]

'We don't need no education': Now Arizona says teachers don't require college degrees 2022-07-14 [Salon]

Starbucks notches legal win in battle against union organizers 2022-06-10 [NPR]

Maintenance workers unionize at private Arizona prison run by CoreCivic 2022-03-26 [AzCentral]

Starbucks Worker: The entire food industry should go union 2022-03-21 [Jacobin]

Why the Mesa Starbucks Workers Union Vote Results are on Hold for Now 2022-03-19 [Phoenix New Times]

How Starbucks Workers Won in Mesa 2022-03-06 [Labour Notes]

AZ Starbucks becomes first outside New York to unionize 2022-03-02 [AP]

Workers at an Arizona Starbucks cafe win union drive 2022-02-26 [Saltwire]

Arizona Starbucks workers vote to form a union 2022-02-26 [New York Times]

NLRB rules in Arizona case that Starbucks does not have a regional HR department, dealing blow to company's union-busting approach 2022-02-24 [New York Times]

Mesa Starbucks workers face union-busting tactics as they plan to unionize 2022-01-30 [12 News]

'Voting rights affect all of us': Workers unions begin hunger strike at Arizona Capitol 2022-01-17 [AzCentral]

Starbucks Employee Union Efforts Spread to Arizona 2021-11-20 [The Street]

On this Labor Day, we're looking back at a 1917 event involving an Arizona mining town, a sheriff's 'secret court,' and a mass deportation For more info 2021-09-07 [12 News]

Navajo Nation issues vaccine mandate for tribal workers For more info 2021-08-24 [KRQE]

Tucson restaurant workers could form first union of its kind in AZ 2021-07-27 [KOLD]

AZ legislators OK ban on 'critical race theory' training for public workers 2021-05-29 [Tucson]

Group pushing for grocery store workers to get vaccine priority in Arizona 2021-02-27 [3TV/CBS 5]

Grocery workers are still on the front lines, yet lower on the list for receiving the vaccine 2021-02-17 [KOLD]

Phoenix essential workers rally for Raise the Wage Act to up minimum wage to $15 an hour 2021-02-09 [AZCentral]

UA justice coaltion & union: Celebrating a year of resilience, bravery 2020-12-20 [Tucson.com]

Calls for nationwide sickout as Arizona school district cancels reopening 2020-08-16 [The Guardian]

Unions, Safeway raise $40,000 for Navajo Nation 2020-08-07 [WHICentral]

US Foods workers in Arizona threaten to strike over COVID-19 issues 2020-07-30 [AZ Central]

Teachers union and other groups seek tax hike on wealthy for education 2020-01-13 [FOX]

Minimum wage increase puts Arizona near top; advocates say more needed 2020-01-01 [AZ Family]

Unions representing 2,000 Asarco workers vote to strike 2019-10-13 [Tucson]

Arizona Republic Journalists Overwhelmingly Vote to Unionize 2019-10-11 [Phoenix New Times]

Initiative would ask voters to raise hospital workers' pay, make other health-care changes 2019-08-26 [Tucson]

Pima County deputy association formally unionizes, gaining bargaining rights 2018-11-17 [Tucson]

Nurses at Tucson's St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospitals unionize 2018-10-20 [Tucson]

Tucson-based Asarco must pay copper bonuses, appeals court rules 2018-06-21 [Tucson]

Teachers End Walkout as Governor Signs Bill Approving Raises 2018-05-04 [NYTimes]

What teacher strikes are really about 2018-04-28 [CNN]

Arizona teacher walkout: how 3 decades of tax cuts suffocated public schools 2018-04-28 [Vox]

Teachers in Arizona, Colorado walk off the job today 2018-04-26 [NY Times]

Arizona teachers demand 20 percent raise at Capitol protest 2018-04-03 [Education Week]

Arizona teachers engage in mass protests to demand higher pay, more money for students 2018-04-03 [Arizona Republic]

3 American Airlines regional workers protest 'poverty-level' pay at Sky Harbor airport 2018-01-16 [The Republic, vias AZCentral]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]