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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]

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]

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]

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

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]