logo
Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
USA         
Georgia
Act NOW!

Top news - Georgia

Some Georgia workers would find it harder to become union members under a new bill 2024-03-21 [CP]

Southern Industrial Chemicals exposed workers of Atlanta to chemical, struck-by hazards 2024-03-09 [US DOL]

Former Georgia election workers awarded $148M in civil suit against Giuliani 2024-02-23 [USAToday]

Anheuser-Busch workers ready to strike 2024-02-12 [FOX]

Senate passes bill that threatens incentives for companies whose workers seek to unionize 2024-02-10 [The Morning News]

In possible test of federal labor law, Georgia could make it harder for some workers to join unions 2024-02-09 [ABC]

The Georgia Senate panel is advancing a bill that would make the state even less hospitable to union workers – WABE 2024-02-04 [Georgia Law News]

Longtime Georgia starbucks worker fired 2 days after store files for union vote For more info 2023-10-05 [TastingTable]

The cost of the Big Lie: Giuliani ordered to pay damages to Georgia election workers For more info 2023-09-04 [MSNBC]

Judge rules Giuliani liable for defaming Georgia election workers 2023-08-30 [AP]

Election Workers Named as Victims in Georgia Trump Indictment 2023-08-20 [MSNBC]

Union win - US tyre workers approve USW contract 2023-08-16 [IndustriALL]

Sanitation service rally held in Atlanta, union workers demand better wages 2023-07-23 [Atlanta News First]

Unionized Georgia Starbucks workers grapple with Starbucks over contract impasse, while other battles continue 2023-07-21 [Atlanta Civic Circle]

Hundreds of local film industry workers, on and off camera, gather as actors’ strike continues For more info 2023-07-18 [WSB-TV]

Georgia UPS workers prepare for strike, demand better wages and conditions 2023-07-10 [Atlanta News First]

Two Georgia election workers cleared of wrongdoing in 2020 elections 2023-06-23 [The Guardian]

GA’s child care workers are among the lowest paid in the nation 2023-06-18 [Rough Draft Atlanta]

Starbucks workers say company won’t let them hang up pride decorations 2023-06-15 [WSB TV]

Pro-union Delta workers rally for change outside Atlanta airport 2023-05-26 [ANF]

Union Win at Bus Company Electrifies Georgia 2023-05-16 [Labour Notes]

Steelworkers win union election at Blue Bird, electric bus maker in Fort Valley, Ga 2023-05-14 [New York Times]

GA election workers honored for defending democracy; Trump continues baseless attacks For more info 2023-01-07 [MCNBC]

Warehouse workers in Atlanta accuse Amazon of unfair labor practices 2022-10-20 [Yahoo]

Tucker Brewing Co Terminated Workers for Asking About Pay 2022-09-29 [Food Manufacturing]

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms 2022-09-27 [AP]

After week 1 of school year, Chatham County teachers already feeling the effects of staff shortage 2022-08-15 [WJCL]

Atlanta EMS Unionize to Push Back against Understaffing 2022-07-31 [Payday Report]

MARTA to seek court action to end bus driver ‘sick-out' 2019-01-29 [AJC]

Calhoun school system designates teachers as ‘essential workers' 2020-08-28 [GA Health News]

Atlanta Apple store workers say ‘intimidation' has made a fair union vote impossible 2022-05-28 [Verge]

“Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?” Powerful January 6 testimony from Georgia poll workers reveals a serious — and ongoing — threat to democracy 2022-06-22 [Vox]

More than 100 years ago, black domestic workers in Georgia rose up for better pay. Now they're getting out the vote for Stacey Abrams 2018-11-06 [NYTimes]

Unions allege severe violations of workers' rights at eyewear giant Luxottica 2021-07-16 [UNI Global Union]

Brenau students help farm workers, children in south Georgia 2022-07-05 [Brenau]

Election workers describe racist threats after Trump attacks 2022-06-22 [NewsNation]

Atlanta's Apple store union vote is postponed not cancelled, says organizers 2022-06-05 [Apple Insider]

Workers exposed to hazardous substance in Best Buy warehouse in GA 2022-06-04 [Telegraph]

Apple Atlanta Workers Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week, Claiming Intimidation 2022-05-27 [Bloomberg]

Apple allegedly intimidates retail workers into canceling union vote 2022-05-28 [Cult of Mac]

Atlanta Apple store workers reportedly withdraw request for union vote scheduled just days away, citing alleged intimidation 2022-05-29 [Business Insider]

Apple Store Showdown: Inside the Battle for Union Representation 2022-06-02 [NYTimes]

Apple union push faces setback as Atlanta organizers withdraw vote bid, citing alleged intimidation, rising Covid cases 2022-06-01 [CNBC]

Campaign Workers for Democratic Party of Georgia Secure Teamster Contract 2022-05-28 [Teamsters]

Viewpoint: Abolish the H-2A Program! 2022-04-22 [Labor Notes]

Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize 2022-04-22 [NPR]

Workers at Atlanta Apple store file to hold first U.S. union election 2022-04-21 [Reuters]

Workers at Apple Retail Store in Atlanta First in US to File for Union Election 2022-04-21 [CWA]

Apple geniuses in Atlanta beat New York to the punch, file petition to unionize 2022-04-21 [The Register]

Apple store workers in Atlanta file for first union election 2022-04-21 [Canada.com]

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]