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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]

SFUSD teachers strike ends after 4 days with TA 2026-02-15 [KQED]

3,000 Kaiser pharmacy, lab workers will end their strike this week 2026-02-15 [OCRegister]

San Francisco Teachers Win Fully Funded Health Care, Wage Increases After 4-Day Strike 2026-02-15 [NationalToday]

SF Ghirardelli workers hold Valentine's Day strike outside iconic chocolate and ice cream shop 2026-02-15 [ABC]

SF Mission High UESF Educators Celebrate Strike Victory With Students, Parents & Supporters For more info 2026-02-15 [LVP]

Kaiser pharmacy workers end 3-day strike 2026-02-14 [NBC]

Striking UESF Teachers Demand SFUSD Maria Su & School Board Provide Living Wages & End Understaffing For more info 2026-02-13 [LVP]

AI, Labor & The Future Of LA & The World Part 1 For more info 2026-02-13 [LVP]

San Francisco teachers reach tentative contract 2026-02-13 [AP]

Number of the Week: Teacher strike votes are rising 2026-02-13 [EdSource]

Natomas teachers vote to authorize strike for first time in district history 2026-02-13 [Sacramento Bee]

Taco Bell Workers Go On Strike Over Alleged Racial Abuse by Manager 2026-02-12 [Complex]

Striking SF UESF Members Want Living Wages & Healthcare For Their Families To Help Their Students For more info 2026-02-11 [LVP]

Thousands Of Striking UESF Teachers, Students & Families Rally At SF City Hall For Living Wages For more info 2026-02-11 [LVP]

Pharmacy and Lab Workers Join Kaiser Permanente Strike as Nurses Enter Third Week 2026-02-10 [Pasadena Now / FB]

Classes cancelled; SF teachers on strike 2026-02-09 [KTVU]

San Francisco teachers begin first strike in nearly 50 years 2026-02-09 [The Guardian]

Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks With Actors, Writers 2026-02-09 [New York Times]

6,500 teachers and paraprofessionals in San Francisco strike after a year of bargaining for an affordable wage contract 2026-02-09 [AP]

Kaiser pharmacy workers to join nurses on strike 2026-02-09 [Downey Patriot]

Chatbots, AI, Healthcare, Profiteering & Patients With NUHW Kaiser LCSW Ilana Marcucci-Morris For more info 2026-02-04 [LVP]

Kaiser Permanente strike enters 5th day as 31,000 health care workers walk out 2026-01-31 [FOX]

Writers Guild of America’s staff union authorizes strike, weeks before major negotiations 2026-01-31 [The Times]

LAUSD teachers union members authorize strike, ratcheting up pressure on contract talks 2026-01-31 [The Times]

San Francisco teachers union moves closer to a historic strike, first in more than 50 years 2026-01-29 [KQED]

We Remember Minneapolis VA AFGE Nurse Alex Pretti! ! SF VA Workers & Community Commemorate Nurse Alex Pretti For more info 2026-01-28 [LVP]

Kaiser Oakland UNAC/UHCP Healthcare Workers Strike For Staffing & Wages & Against Union Busting For more info 2026-01-28 [LVP]

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers launch open-ended strike 2026-01-26 [LATimes]

Thousands of Kaiser workers walk out as labor dispute escalates 2026-01-26 [SFChronicle]

California bus drivers at Zum transportation fit for first contract 2026-01-26 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

Support For General Strike By SF Amazon Teamster At Labor Community Rally For more info 2026-01-26 [LVP]

28,000 Kaiser health workers are set to strike 2026-01-26 [LAist]

Kaiser Permanente braces for potential strike by 2,800 health care workers in Northern California 2026-01-24 [FOX]

2028 Olympics could bring big wins for Los Angeles labor unions 2026-01-23 [The Star]

2028 Olympics could bring big wins for Los Angeles labor unions 2026-01-23 [AP]

The Container Store, Major retailer announces store closures in California 2026-01-22 [KTLA 5 ]

Costa Mesa to Require Staffed Self-Checkout Stands 2026-01-22 [Voice of OC]

Immigration agents clash with Anaheim auto shop workers 2026-01-22 [CBS News Los Angeles]

Officials join voices, ask Disney to investigate restaurant group for alleged workers rights’ violations 2026-01-20 [The Weekly]

31,000 Kaiser Nurses Plan to Strike Across California and Hawaii, From SF to San Diego 2026-01-17 [Nurse.org]

Unions push for levy tied to salary inequity 2026-01-16 [Magzter]

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]