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SEIU1021 & IFPTE21 City Workers Rally At SF Gen Against Mayor Lurie's Union Busting Layoffs & Prop D For more info 2026-04-16 [LVP]

Teachers to strike in Santa Fe Springs 2026-04-16 [MynewsLA.com]

LAUSD strike averted at last moment, schools stay opoen 2026-04-14 [Los Angeles Times]

The AI Bubble, Capitalism, The Mechanic & The Luddites With Jathan Sadowski For more info 2026-04-14 [LVP]

STRIKE! SEIU99 Leaders Fight 4 Education Workers, Kids & Community At LAUSD & The Class Struggle For more info 2026-04-14 [LVP]

CA Federation of Labor Unions Withdraws Endorsement of Rep. Eric Swalwell in California Governor’s Race 2026-04-13 [CA Fed Labor]

UTLA reaches tentative agreement with LAUSD 2026-04-12 [EdSource]

Fight brewing as controversial bill to let California state workers stay remote advances 2026-04-10 [NYPost]

Workers Demand FIFA Remove ICE From World Cup Amid Strike Threat 2026-04-08 [TeleSUR]

LA Teachers Strike: 68,000 Education Workers in 3 Unions Set to Walk 2026-04-08 [Counterpunch]

Los Angeles Stadium workers urge FIFA to bar ICE from World Cup 2026-04-07 [Al Jazeera]

SoFi Stadium workers urge FIFA to bar ICE from World Cup, threaten strike 2026-04-07 [Reuters]

No More ' Protective Orders' To Silence Apple Whistleblower Ashley Gjovik & Other Workers-Stop Profiting By Spying On Genitals! For more info 2026-04-05 [LVP]

Meta's Bay Area layoffs affect roughly 200 workers as company pours billions into AI infrastructure 2026-04-04 [FOX]

94% of Little Lake School District Teachers vote to authorize strike 2026-04-04 [MyNewsLA.com]

Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands 2026-04-03 [Labor Notes]

Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands 2026-04-03 [Labour Notes]

Farmworkers Day brings attention to Filipino labor leader who began Delano grape strike 2026-04-01 [CBS]

APPLE Bosses & Lawyers Panic As OSHA Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik's Trial & Judgement Hearing Gets Close For more info 2026-03-31 [LVP]

At SF No Kings Day Support For May 1 Gen Strike & Against War On Iran & Palestine For more info 2026-03-31 [LVP]

California CTA Teachers, Actor & Nurse Speak Out For Single Payer At California State Rally For more info 2026-03-23 [LVP]

Women leading farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez 2026-03-22 [Salon]

United Auto Workers units finalize agreements with UC, avoid strike 2026-03-22 [Daily Bruin]

CBS workers in SF walk off the job as Bari Weiss eliminates national news radio 2026-03-22 [48hills]

California's Gov. Newsom supports move to rename César Chavez Day over alleged sexual abuse 2026-03-20 [CP]

2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals strike over use of AI 2026-03-18 [AP]

Striking Writers Guild Staffers Picket Outside Building Where Union Is Negotiating With Studios 2026-03-17 [The Hollywood Reporter]

Healthcare, Capitalism, Labor & Single Payer With CTA Delegate Mark Norberg For more info 2026-03-16 [LVP]

Dublin teachers and district reach tentative agreement after 4 days of striking 2026-03-15 [ABC 7]

Teachers from Natomas, Twin Rivers march across Tower Bridge as strikes continue 2026-03-15 [ABC10]

UAW 4811 UCSF Mission Bay Members & Supporters Protests Union Busting Tacitcs By UC Bosses & Regents For more info 2026-03-13 [LVP]

What San Francisco Educators Won on Their Strike 2026-03-12 [Jacobin]

San Francisco Drivers Fight Waymo, Brazilian Labor Leaders Mobilize Workers, Donna Weng Friedman Honors Women in Music For more info 2026-03-11 [LVP]

Dublin teachers strike continues for second day 2026-03-10 [KRON]

Natomas Unified teachers go on historic strike 2026-03-10 [KCRA]

CA Teamsters, AI, Union Democracy & Workers Power For more info 2026-03-10 [LVP]

Capitalism & Class Struggle In Black Atlanta With Gus Wood For more info 2026-03-08 [LVP]

UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood Protested by UCSF UPTE CWA Workers For Lack Of Safety On The Job For more info 2026-03-06 [LVP]

Twin Rivers teachers go on strike in Sacramento County, schools to stay open 2026-03-05 [KCRA]

Uber Drivers, Teamsters Speak Out On Waymos, AI & Robots In San Francisco For more info 2026-03-04 [LVP]

No Waymos On The Road! IBT, SEIU 1021 & Drivers Rally At SF City Hall For more info 2026-03-03 [LVP]

After 4-Week Strike, Kaiser Permanente Workers Score Tentative Win on Staffing & Pay 2026-02-26 [MedCity News]

AHS Highland Hosp SEIU CIR Interns/Residents & SEIU 1021 Workers Protest ICE & Fight For A Contract For more info 2026-02-25 [LVP]

NACL Letter Carriers Rally At Harry Bridges Plaza In SF To Demand Living Wages & A Contract For more info 2026-02-24 [LVP]

Behind the Writers Guild’s Internal Revolt 2026-02-21 [The Hollywood Reporter]

IBT Pres Sean O'Brien Says There Are 'No Cameras At UPS' For more info 2026-02-20 [LVP]

IBT 2010 CSUSF Strikers & Unionists Speak Out About Attacks On Labor & CSU Union Busting For more info 2026-02-19 [LVP]

Pay Our Wage Increase! IBT 2010 Teamsters CSUSF Strike Rally & Solidarity With Other CSU Unions For more info 2026-02-18 [LVP]

Week 4: Kaiser says 40% of striking workers are back at work 2026-02-16 [OCRegister]

Kaiser strike hits fourth week as 31,000 workers demand higher pay and better staffing 2026-02-16 [Cal Matters]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]