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The Teamsters applaud Senator Ruben Gallego for his support and letter to Kroger regarding the unjust termination of its contract with Ruan Transportation 2025-07-30 [Teamsters FB]

As Arizona swelters, workplace heat protections remain sparse with no state law and OSHA proposal likely stalled 2025-07-04 [Cronkite News]

Arizona ICE agents posed as city workers to trick their way into illegal immigrant’s home, neighbors claim: ‘Should be a crime’ 2025-06-01 [NYPost]

Trulieve marijuana cultivation workers in Arizona make labor history 2025-05-10 [MJBizDaily]

AZ's air conditioning relief at risk: Federal program workers fired: RFK Jr.'s 10,000 layoffs at HHS included administrators of program for low-income residents 2025-04-06 [NBC 12]

AGs sue over ‘reckless and illegal’ mass firings of probationary federal workers: AZ AG Mayes joined a coalition of 20 AGs seeking reinstatement of probationary workers 2025-03-08 [AZ Mirror]

United Express Carrier Mesa Air Flight Attendants Begin Federally Mediated Negotiations, Work to End Tiers in Aviation 2024-10-23 [AFA-CWA]

Protest held near Sky Harbor after employee claims she was fired for speaking out on work issues, getting involved with union 2024-10-10 [NBC]

Tucson Starbucks baristas file petition for union election 2024-07-04 [KVOA]

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]

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

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]

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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

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

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]

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]