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Global Union Leaders Fight for Worker Rights, Democracy 2024-02-16 [Solidarity Center]

UAW Members At CAP Convention Interrupted Biden To Demand A Ceasefire & Were Shouted Down & Dragged Out 2024-01-25 [LVP]

Washington Post Journalists Go on One-Day Strike, Protesting Stalled Contract Talks and Potential Layoffs 2023-12-07 [New York Times]

KPFK's Working Voices LA Interviews CWA President Claude Cummings For more info 2023-11-08 [KPFK Working Voices]

Starbucks asks u.s. supreme court to decide on a union issue 2023-10-05 [Restaurant Business]

Deputy Director Of Organizing and Field Services For more info 2023-07-31 [International Association of Fire Fighters]

Biden and Sanders meet union organizers amid labor turmoil 2023-07-19 [ABC]

Workers At Beloved D.C. Sandwich Shop Compliments Only Seek To Unionize 2023-07-19 [DCist]

Biden and Sanders meet union organizers amid labor turmoil 2023-07-18 [AP]

D. C. SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION WORKERS SECURE FIRST TEAMSTER CONTRACT 2023-07-07 [Teamsters]

InterContinental Washington D.C. forces acclaimed restaurant Moon Rabbit to close rather than see UNITE HERE organize kitchen workers 2023-05-23 [Washington Post]

Nurses commerate nurses week in lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill 2023-05-12 [National Nurses United]

Markey staff to be first in Senate to unionize 2023-03-09 [Aol]

Union Kitchen Workers Win Back Pay In National Labor Relations Board Settlement 2023-02-11 [DCist]

The SWA Meltdown, Deregulation, Worker Rights & Safety With TWU President John Samuelson For more info 2023-01-05 [LVP]

After 3 years of bargaining, DC teachers union reaches a tentative contract 2022-11-23 [Washington Post]

Lawmaker Pushes for Legislative Branch Employees to Have the Same Rights as Other Feds 2022-08-27 [Gov Exec]

Judge Rules COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement For D.C. Government Workers Is Unlawful 2022-08-27 [DCist]

American University students walk out of opening convocation in support of striking SEIU staff 2022-08-26 [Washington Post]

500 SEIU members strike American University over wages as administration offers two-tier wage system 2022-08-23 [WTOP]

Lululemon workers to vote this month on unionizing D.C. store 2022-08-10 [Bloomberg]

DC Lululemon Store Workers Initiate Unionization Process 2022-07-27 [Gear Junkie]

Fires Near White House—AFL-CIO Offices Ablaze—As Riots Continue In D.C. 2020-06-01 [Forbes]

D.C. Labor chorus: ‘The musical arm of the resistance' 2019-01-21 [Wash Post]

D.C.'s only unionized charter school filed another federal labor complaint — this time as its campus is shutting down 2019-03-10 [Wash Post]

Labor Department: Metro union had ‘alternate, secret' policies for election eligibility 2017-01-19 [Washington Post]

Metro union decries transit officials' ‘lazy' response to recent rise in assaults on bus drivers 2017-09-16 [Wash Post]

Airline CEOs tell Congress we don't need masks on planes, get factchecked by Flight Attendant Union President 2021-12-18 [Forbes]

Federal workers spill on life in Trump's Washington 2018-03-31 [Politico]

Nation's largest union, Columbia chef team up to feed airport workers during shutdown 2019-01-13 [The State]

The House will allow staffers to unionize. Here's how it will work. 2022-05-10 [Vox]

We're all in the same boat: Furloughed federal workers flock to Amer Univ for a day of classes and distraction 2019-01-09 [Wash Post]

D.C. files restraining order against teachers' union to stop teachers from discussing a strike 2021-02-02 [Washington Post]

D.C. police union head stole $180,000 of officers' dues, nearly emptying account 2017-03-10 [Washington Post]

With strike threat looming, Metro's largest union lays out demands in letter to elected officials 2018-07-19 [The Post]

D.C. schools and teachers struggle to reach contract after 3 years; teachers blame working conditions 2022-07-09 [Washington Post]

Tentative contract reached in three-day DC Circulator strike 2022-05-05 [Washington Post]

Drivers union votes to strike DC Circulator bus system 2022-04-30 [Washington Post]

The AFL-CIO In South Africa and Jabu Ndlovu With Trade Union Organnizer David Hemson For more info 2022-04-19 [LEPAIO]

Congressional Workers Union Announce Union Drive, With Speaker Pelosi's Blessing 2022-02-05 [Teen Vogue]

Employees at civic tech company Nava PBC request voluntary recognition of their wall-to-wall union with OPEIU Tech Workers Union Local 1010 2022-02-04 [OPEIU]

ILWU President Willie Adams meets with President Biden to discuss supply chain issues 2021-11-09 [ILWU]

Politico's journalists are seeking union recognition from new owners 2021-10-29 [New York Times]

D.C. Mayor Orders City Workers, Teachers to Get Vaccinated or Undergo Testing 2021-08-15 [Daily Beast]

Staff at the Democratic National Committee unionize 2021-08-03 [New York Times]

Free LaborFest Thursday concert by DC Musicians 2021-05-28 [Metro Wash AFL-CIO]

Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union, dies in car crash 2021-04-05 [Washington Post]

Helping hospitality workers 2021-02-17 [Metro Wash AFL-CIO]

Almost 1,600 Postal Workers in DC Region Tested Positive for COVID-19; 7 Have Died 2021-02-06 [NBC]

DC Child Care Workers Ask Officials Not to Push Back Their COVID-19 Vaccinations 2021-01-25 [NBC]

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]