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University of Iowa graduate workers call for fundraising boycott 2024-03-28 [IA Capital Dispatch]

Bill causing union decertification for employer errors sparks debate 2024-02-11 [CBS]

Starbucks sues iowa union over social-media posts on israel-hamas conflict For more info 2023-10-21 [Iowa Capital Dispatch]

Iowa city starbucks joins growing union movement For more info 2023-10-10 [KMA Land]

Union workers continue strike against Amcor 2023-08-01 [We Are IA]

Union workers on strike against Amcor in Des Moines 2023-07-31 [KCCI]

Employees at Iowa’s only unionized Starbucks ‘strike with Pride’ as part of national campaign 2023-07-03 [Little Village]

Iowa governor signs one of the most dangerous rollbacks of child labor laws in the country 2023-06-21 [EPI]

Inside a Teamster Rebellion: This Is What Union Democracy Looks Like 2023-05-15 [The Nation]

Iowa City Starbucks the first in Iowa to move to unionize 2023-04-01 [ABC]

Union workers, parents rally in Davenport against proposed child labor bills For more info 2023-03-29 [KWQC]

Parents and union workers protest Iowa child labor law changes For more info 2023-03-29 [WOWT]

'Our kids are not for sale': Union workers protest loosening of Iowa child labor laws 2023-03-01 [Gazette]

Union Workers Protest Over Bill That Would Loosen IA Child Labor Laws For more info 2023-03-01 [KCAU]

Five Flags Center Workers In Dubuque Now Unionized 2022-08-05 [Starting Line]

Union members at Eaton Corporation's Davenport facility to go on strike 2022-02-19 [OurQuadCities]

Judges send Tyson workers' virus lawsuit back to state court 2022-01-03 [AP]

Grinnell College becomes first fully unionized undergraduate school in U.S. 2022-05-03 [Teen Vogue]

Judges send Tyson workers' virus lawsuit back to state court: families of dead workers say that Tyson contributed to their deaths 2022-01-03 [NBC]

Timeline shows key dates in the John Deere strike For more info 2021-11-15 [Des Moines Register]

Striking Deere & Co. workers prepare to vote on 3rd contract 2021-11-14 [FOX]

GoFundMe page raises over $147,000 for Deere workers on strike 2021-11-07 [KWQC]

Striking John Deere workers receive truckload of food and supplies from fellow union members 2021-10-29 [Successful Farmong]

Deere contract voted down 2021-11-04 [KCRG]

John Deere, UAW reach tentative agreement pending worker vote 2021-10-31 [ABC]

Striking UAW Local 838 workers get hefty delivery from Quaker Oats, General Mills RWDSU Local 110 members 2021-10-30 [Courier]

Rally held for striking John Deere workers 2021-10-25 [KCCI]

Few hundred John Deere laborers, supporters of striking workers rally outside UAW Hall 2021-10-25 [Courier]

Thousands of John Deere workers strike over their contract 2021-10-14 [NYTimes]

With current contract expiring Friday, UAW members reject new agreement with John DeereUAW members 2021-10-10 [Des Moines Register]

Deere, UAW begin negotiations on pay, benefits for 10,100 workers, including in 7,200 in Iowa 2021-08-18 [Des Moines Register]

GOP bills raise red flags for Iowa workers 2021-02-13 [Gazette]

Unions file OSHA complaint over lack of mask mandate at Iowa State Capitol 2021-01-23 [We are IA]

Unions file OSHA complaint over lack of mask mandate at Iowa State Capitol 2021-01-23 [WQAD]

Criminal records leave Tyson workers feeling stuck at Waterloo plant 2021-01-04 [Courier]

Workers at the Tyson plant in Waterloo kept getting COVID-19. Where was their union? 2021-01-02 [WCF Courier]

Managers at Tyson plant where six workers died had COVID betting pool 2020-12-30 [Oregonian]

Meat Plant Managers Suspended After Charges of Betting on Number of COVID Cases 2020-11-22 [WorkCompCentral]

COVID CHERNOYBL In Iowa With Joe Henry with LULAC Council 307 and Iowa AFL-CIO President Charles Wishman For more info 2020-11-18 [LVP]

ACLU of Iowa, unions file complaint saying state OSHA failed to do its job, protect workers against COVID-19 2020-11-14 [Des Moines Register]

Federal complaint filed against Iowa OSHA for not protecting workers amid COVID-19 2020-11-13 [NBC]

Labor, civil rights groups: Iowa failed to protect workers 2020-11-13 [Times-Republican]

Workers picket Canadian Pacific railroad 2020-10-31 [Clinton Herald]

Univ. Iowa Hospitals and Clinics healthcare workers call on Iowa leaders to step up in fight against COVID-19 2020-10-22 [ABC]

Why voting yes in union recertification elections is voting yes for gender equality 2020-10-12 [The Register]

Iowa Beef Plant Fined Just $957 After 300 Workers Tested Positive for Virus 2020-09-26 [MBT Mag]

As many as 1,200 workers still not back at Smithfield after COVID-19 outbrea 2020-06-16 [Sioux Falls Argus Leader]

The Death March, Slavery, Meat Plant Workers & Covid-19 For more info 2020-05-13 [LVP]

Outbreak at Tyson plant infected 1,031 workers 2020-05-10 [FOX]

Union Criticizes Governor, DOC After Prison Worker Tests Positive 2020-04-13 [WHO Radio]

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]