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Union wants UC to create a legal aid fund to help graduate student workers with visa issues 2026-01-13 [The Times]

Unions representing 40k academic, research UC employees announce strike vote 2026-01-13 [The Daily Bruin]

Farm workers remember racist border patrol raid in Kern County 2026-01-07 [United Farmworkers]

OC judge to resign as part of plea deal for workers comp fraud 2026-01-10 [LAist]

Urban Ore workers ratify first union contract months after ending strike 2026-01-09 [Berkeleyside]

University of California graduate workers demand immigration legal fund as visa fears mount 2026-01-09 [Face2Face]

These California cities just raised minimum wages. Where can workers earn more? 2026-01-05 [Sacramento Bee]

New Worker Protections Taking Effect in California on January 1, 2026 2025-12-31 [Labor.CA]

United Farm Workers has unionized eight farms under 2023 CA law. Here’s where 2025-12-29 [The Bee]

AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Drivers In San Francisco & The Tech Billionaires Control Of The City For more info 2025-12-26 [LVP]

LACMA Workers Have Voted to Unionize 2025-12-22 [Surface]

IBT Amazon DCK6 SF Workers Speak Out Against Bezos Union Busting & Worker Conditions For more info 2025-12-21 [LVP]

Beverly Hills approves labor agreement with police union 2025-12-18 [Beverly Press & Park Labrea News]

AI, Writers, Follow the Money & The Rip-off Of Writers With NWU Edward Hasbrouck For more info 2025-12-18 [LVP]

ILWU STATEMENT OF POLICY: THE ILWU VERSUS FASCISM For more info 2025-12-17 [ILWU]

SF DCK6 Amazon Workers & N. Ca Teamsters Rally In San Francisco For A Union Contract & Against Bezos Union Busting For more info 2025-12-17 [LVP]

AI, Labor & The Commodification of Education For Profits & Control For more info 2025-12-16 [LVP]

California Teamsters Demand Fair Elections & Demand That CA AG Rob Bonta Close Down Unilect For more info 2025-12-14 [LVP]

Murder At SFGH: UCSF UPTE CWA Workers & Supporters Rally After UPTE CWA Member Alberto Rangel Is Killed For more info 2025-12-13 [LVP]

West Contra Costa Unified teachers end strike with TA 2025-12-12 [Fox2]

“I Asked For A Voice On The Job, Not A Target On My Back” - LEGO ‘Tears Down’ Unionization Effort At California Disney Store 2025-12-10 [WNY Labor Today]

UTR West Contra Costa Unified School Teachers Striking & Fighting For Smaller Class Rooms & Living Wages For more info 2025-12-09 [LVP]

Teachers union returns to bargaining table as West Contra Costa Unified strike continues 2025-12-07 [CBS]

IBT 2010 UC Rank & File Run In Elections & Challenge Officials, UC & UniLect Services For more info 2025-12-05 [LVP]

Teachers in West Contra Costa Unified go on strike 2025-12-04 [NBC Bay Area]

Italian USB Union Report To US Workers On Italy General Strike Against Militarization & For Palestine For more info 2025-11-30 [LVP]

Labour leader pleads not guilty to misdemeanor over immigration protest 2025-11-27 [The Star]

CA court tosses Wonderful Company lawsuit over farmworker unionization law 2025-11-27 [CAL Matters]

Teamsters, The Fight To Organize Amazon, AI, & the Struggle Against Fascism in the IBT For more info 2025-11-26 [LVP]

Hundreds of airline catering workers protest near LAX amid Thanksgiving travel rush 2025-11-26 [ABC]

Kill Tariffs Not Workers! Teamsters & ILWU Members Protest Tariffs & Trade War At The Port Of Oakland For more info 2025-11-25 [LVP]

UC Service Workers Strike, Saying Wages Aren’t Enough to Afford Cost of Living 2025-11-20 [KQED]

What this Fascist Moment Demands of Labor Unions 2025-11-20 [The Sentinel]

Robber Barrons, The Union Pacifica & Norfolk Southern Rail Merger Unions, Communities & The Public For more info 2025-11-19 [LVP]

We Can't Survive! AFSCME 3299 UCSF Parnassus Strikers Speak Out During Strike Against Union Busting For more info 2025-11-18 [LVP]

The AFL-CIO & Venezuela, A History Of Subversion & Counter-Revolution For more info 2025-11-16 [LEPAIO]

County employee unions host Strike School 2025-11-14 [Vacaville Reporter]

California dialysis caregivers authorize strike over unfair labour practices 2025-11-10 [UNI Global Union]

86,000 University of California workers to strike statewide Nov. 17-18 2025-11-08 [East Bay Times]

California nurses celebrate the passage of Proposition 50 2025-11-07 [National Nurses United]

The Racist Frame-up Of Laborers At Dennis Herrera's SF PUC For more info 2025-10-31 [LVP]

Former UCLA Labor Center director, workers’ rights advocate Kent Wong dies at 69 2025-10-31 [The Daily Bruin]

SJSU Professor Sang Hea Gil, CFA/SEIU & The Fight Against Zionism & Defense Of Public Education For more info 2025-10-29 [LVP]

Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize 2025-10-04 [Associated Press]

TDU Inviting IBT Pres Sean O'Brien To Convention For Endorsement For more info 2025-10-27 [LVP]

Governor Gavin Newsom Proclaims, Saturday, October 25, 2025, as Larry Itliong Day, Says, “…We Honor The Immense Contributions Of Larry Itliong And The Manongs Whose Hard-Fought Battles Helped Advance Farmworkers’ Rights” 2025-10-26 [The Sierra Sun Time]

Farm worker movement marks Larry D. Itliong Day 2025-10-26 [The Daily Kos]

SF Unionists Call For Gen Strike To Stop Raids, Jailing Of Migrants As Trump Sends ICE To Bay Area For more info 2025-10-23 [LVP]

The Call For A General Strike By Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson & LA Roofers Local 36 BM Cliff Smith On Fascism For more info 2025-10-20 [LVP]

Five-day strike by 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente ends 2025-10-20 [AP]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-01-1966 From 8:02 a.m., a public transport strike spread across New York. After 12 days, the strikers will get a 15% wage increase and other benefits. [more]

2-01-1920 Thousands of US labor activists are arrested in the 'Palmer Raids' during the first Red Scare. [more]

3-01-1917 Trial of labour organizer Tom Mooney begins in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing. He was framed & serves 22 years. [more]

4-01-1965 Start of victorious 28-day strike by 8000 New York City social workers over better conditions for welfare recipients. [more]

4-01-1966 Transport Workers Union of America leader Mike Quill arrested for violating an anti-strike court injunction in 4-day old 35000-member strike. [more]

6-01-1916 8,000 workers strike the Youngstown steel mills. The next day, they are joined by their families. The guards fired bullets and tear gas canisters at the crowd. 3 strikers die and 25 are injured. [more]

7-01-1920 Five elected members of the New York state assembly belonging to the Socialist Party are refused their seats. [more]

7-01-1939 Tom Mooney of the IWW, after 22 years in prison, is found not guilty of murder. [more]

7-01-1892 100 dead and 150 injured in the explosion at No. 11 mine near Krebs, Oklahoma, when an untrained new hire handles dynamite. [more]

8-01-1811 A slave revolt takes place on the Louisiana sugar plantations. 300 to 500 slaves march on New Orleans, burning the fields in the process. After 2 days, the military crushed the protest. [more]

9-01-1939 1,700 tenant farm families are blocking the Missouri highway after being evicted from their homes so landowners do not have to share government aid with them. [more]

10-01-1860 Collapse of a Pemberton factory in Lawrence, Massachussetts. 900 workers, mostly Irish, trapped in the rubble. More than 100 dead, more injured. [more]

11-01-1912 The 'Bread and Roses' strike began in Lynn Massachusetts. The strike was begun and led by mainly immigrant women. [more]

11-01-1937 Police beat and arrest UAW members during the great sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan [more]

13-01-1874 Mounted police from the NYPD violently attack a demonstration of unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park. [more]

14-01-2003 General Electric decides to transfer $ 400 / year from the employer's share of health insurance contributions to each employee. 14,000 of them go on strike for 2 days in protest. [more]

15-01-1929 Birth of civil rights activist and labor movement supporter Martin Luther King, Jr [more]

17-01-1915 The song 'Solidarity Forever' by Ralph Chaplin is first sung, on a hunger march through Chicago organised by Lucy Parsons. [more]

19-01-1915 20 strikers in Roosevelt, New Jersey, are killed when security guards open fire at an agricultural chemicals factory. They had stopped a train to look for scabs. [more]

19-01-1920 In Hawaii 3,000 members of the Philippine Federation of Labour strike at Ohao plantations. Joined later by members of the Japanese Federation of Labour, their number rose to 8,300. [more]

19-01-1973 In Yuba City, California, a labour contractor, Juan V. Corona, was found guilty of the murder of 25 migrant farm workers between 1970 and 1971. [more]

19-01-2000 Charleston, SC. 600 police officers disperse a demonstration of dockers whose collective agreement is called into question. 5 of them will be arrested on pretexts; the start of the campaign for the liberation of the Charleston 5. [more]

22-01-1969 Black workers at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit march on the autoworkers' union with a list of grievances. The workers had formed ELRUM - the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement - and they called a strike the next day. [more]

23-01-1913 Joe Hill's song 'Mr. Block', extolling the virtues of industrial unionism, is first published in the IWW's newpaper. [more]

27-01-1850 Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, is born. [more]

29-01-1834 Federal troops are used to break a strike for the first time in America, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal [more]

31-01-1938 12,000 pecan shellers, most of them Hispanic women, strike for higher wages and civil rights in San Antonio, Texas. [more]

31-01-1919 The Collar Laundry Union was formed in New York, the first women's union in US history, led by Kate Mullany. Over the next few years the women increase their wages from $2 to $14 a week. [more]