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US Postal Service workers rally in front of Des Moines' main post office, demand fair contracts 2025-02-17 [KCCI]

UI graduate student union demands increased pay during Wednesday protest 2025-01-30 [The Daily]

Iowa Northern Railway Workers Join Teamsters 2025-01-14 [Teamsters]

Report: Iowa construction workers missing out on $100 million a year 2025-01-13 [MSN]

NTSB E. Palestine Derailment Report Left Out Braking Issues Implicating Norfolk Southern Crimes For more info 2024-08-26 [LVP]

Iowa teamsters defeat union-busting bill 2024-04-27 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

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]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]