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Iowa Starbucks stores join national union strike 2025-12-05 [ABC]

Local 110 Wins Major Contract Gains for General Mills Workers in Cedar Rapids 2025-11-28 [RWDSU]

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]

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]

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

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

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

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

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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]

Teamsters host candidate forum in Cedar Rapids 2019-12-07 [Radio IA]

General Mills workers lock in benefits with new ratified contract: Bernie Sanders heralds union's achievement 2019-11-16 [Gazette]

Amid contract dispute, union workers picket outside homes of General Mills leaders 2019-11-05 [ABC]

A nurse was beaten unconscious. Now, more workers attacked at Iowa mental health facility 2019-06-22 [State Farmer]

Bernie Sanders joins striking McDonald*s workers in Cedar Rapids 2019-06-08 [We Are IA]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-12-1946 130,000 Oakland, USA workers go on general strike. [more]

1-12-1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. [more]

2-12-2022 President Biden and Congress employ the Railway Labor Act to force 100,000 railroad workers to accept the government's tentative agreement and prevent workers from striking. [more]

3-12-1866 The 10-hour day comes after a strike in the textiles industry in Fall River, Massachusetts. [more]

3-12-1946 Department store salespeople and demonstrators in Oakland, California call a general strike. [more]

4-12-1970 Cesar Chavez sentenced to 20 days in jail for not calling off United Farm Workers boycott of lettuce grower Bud Antle Inc. [more]

5-12-1955 The two main union federations in the USA merge to form the AFL-CIO, electing George Meany as president, [more]

6-12-1907 The worst mining disaster in American history occurs when an explosion in a Monongah mine in West Virginia kills 361 miners. [more]

7-12-1896 In Chicago, 11 activists found the National Union of Steam Engineers of America; the forerunner of International Union of Operating Engineers. [more]

8-12-1886 The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded by 26 craft unions. Samuel Gompers is elected president. [more]

8-12-1882 Birthday of Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mooney was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. [more]

8-12-2001 230 jailed teachers in Middletown Township, NJ, ordered freed after agreement to end 9day strike & enter mediation. [more]

8-12-1916 Bernice Fisher born. US civil rights activist, union organizer, original founder of Congress of Racial Equality. [more]

11-12-1951 A build-up of coal dust causes an explosion at the New Orient mine in West Frankfort, Illinois. 159 dead. 10 days earlier, new extraction techniques had been approved by state authorities. [more]

14-12-1995 Boeing machinists in the US win a pay rise and an imporved health plan after a 69 day strike. [more]

14-12-1852 American Socialist Daniel De Leon born. Trade union organiser, journalist and Marxist theoretician who died in 1914. [more]

15-12-1941 8 days after the Pearl Harbor attack, the AFL pledged not to organise any strikes in factories linked to national defence for the duration of World War II. [more]

15-12-1921 The Kansas National Guard is ordered to quell a protest by women, the "Army of the Amazons" going from mine to mine to dissuade non-strikers from taking their spouses' jobs in the Pittsburgh mines. [more]

16-12-1951 The Bagel Bakers' Union observes a strike of good faith in 34 factories in New York demanding better health and safety conditions and sick leave. [more]

16-12-1977 Eight cashiers at a bank in Willmar, Minnesota, start first strike against a bank for equal pay. They earned half the salaries of their male colleagues. [more]

19-12-1983 Greyhound bus strike ends when members of Amalgamated Transit Union ratify a contract that slashes wages & benefits by 15% [more]

19-12-1907 A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. [more]

20-12-1906 Arrival of the first group of 15 Filipino farm workers recruited by the Sugar Planters Association. By 1932, there will be more than 100,000 Filipinos working in Hawaii's plantations. [more]

20-12-2005 Thousands of New York public transport workers are going into what they think is a 48-hour strike. Declared illegal, union is fined $ 2.5 million and the president receives 10 days in prison. [more]

21-12-1916 Emma Tenayuca, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

21-12-1919 Emma Goldman is deported to Russia as part of a post-war crackdown on union and left-wing activists. [more]

23-12-1908 AFL officers are found in contempt of court for urging a labor boycott of Buck's Stove and Range Co. in St Louis. [more]

24-12-1913 Seventy three striking miners and their families die in a stampede at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan, after an unknown man enters shouting 'Fire!' [more]

25-12-1910 Bomb destroys part of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles where a bitter strike is ongoing. [more]

25-12-1904 Philip Vera Cruz, labour leader & activist in Asian American civil rights movement, is born. Co-founder of United Farm Workers' Union. [more]

26-12-1877 First national convention of the Socialist Labor Party, the first Marxist party founded in the USA. [more]

27-12-1943 President Roosevelt seizes railroads to avoid a national strike. [more]

28-12-1936 Workers occupy General Motors' body plant in Fisher, Cleveland, in an effort to win recognition of their union by GM. [more]

29-12-2006 More than 15,000 United Steel Workers members at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants end an 86-day strike, ratify three-year contract. [more]

30-12-1936 The most famous of the Depression-era "sit down" strikes in the US begins at GM's Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan. [more]

30-12-1899 In the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missiouri, US, 33 railroad clerks form Local Lodge Number 1 of the Order of the Railroad Clerks of America. [more]

31-12-1969 Rank-and-file UMWA activist Jock Yablonski is murdered along with his family by hitmen acting on the orders of union president. [more]