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Workers at another Wichita Starbucks file to join union 2024-01-19 [KSN]

General Motors idles auto plant, sending 2,000 workers home 2023-09-20 [NBC]

'It was a great first step': New Kansas law increases protection for healthcare workers For more info 2023-08-24 [KSHB ]

Machinists Ratify Contract at Airplane Parts Supplier, But Expose Rift with Union Leadership 2023-07-09 [Labour Notes]

Machinists Ratify Contract at Airplane Parts Supplier, But Expose Rift with Union Leadership 2023-07-09 [Labour Notes]

Spirit AeroSystems to halt work at Wichita plant as union votes to strike 2023-06-23 [Reuters]

As winter weather shuts down services in Kansas, state workers will get paid days off 2022-12-22 [CJOnline]

AMERICAN RED CROSS WORKERS IN KANSAS JOIN TEAMSTERS 2022-12-21 [Teamsters]

Ascension 'disappointed' that St. Francis nurses vote to join union 2022-11-13 [Wichita Biz Jrnl]

Kansas Chipotle Workers Latest to Launch Union Drive 2022-10-21 [Labor Notes]

Goodyear workers reach tentative agreement in contract negotiations 2022-07-31 [WIBW]

‘We Want to See Our Families': Frito-Lay Workers Strike Over 84-Hour Weeks, Meager Raises 2021-07-12 [Workday MN]

If Kansas essential workers get hazard pay raise, ‘that would be huge' 2021-04-10 [Wichita Eagle]

Money wasn't the only cause for the Frito-Lay Strike 2021-07-11 [WIBW]

Kansas nurses call for action to protect health workers against workplace violence 2022-06-06 [Kansas Reflector]

Google Fiber Workers Vote to Unionizeiber-union/ 2022-03-25 [Wired]

'Strike over': Union Local 218 members approve Frito-Lay's latest contract offer, bringing Topeka strike to an end 2021-07-30 [Topeka Capital-Jrnl]

Frito-Lay workers end 20-day strike in Kansas with contract that guarantees one day off per week 2021-07-26 [Wash Post]

Frito-Lay Kansas worker strike ends after 20 days For more info 2021-07-25 [FOX]

Frito-Lay Workers Celebrate Successful Strike: 'We Definitely Have Leverage Right Now' 2021-07-25 [Newsweek]

Frito-Lay Kansas worker strike ends after 20 days 2021-07-25 [CTV]

Striking To End 'Suicide Shifts,' Frito-Lay Workers Ask People To Drop The Doritos 2021-07-23 [NPR]

Topeka: Why hundreds of Frito-Lay workers have been striking 2021-07-23 [CNN]

Hundreds of Frito-Lay workers on strike in Topeka, citing forced overtime and 84-hour workweeks 2021-07-18 [Wash Post]

Frito-Lay workers in Kansas demand end to 16 hour work days 2021-07-17 [IUF]

Frito-Lay workers strike in Topeka, Kan., citing forced overtime, 84-hour weeks 2021-07-15 [Washington Post]

'We Want to See Our Families': Frito-Lay Workers Strike Over 84-Hour Weeks, Meager Raises 2021-07-12 [Labour Notes]

Workers strike for higher wages and less overtime at Topeka Frito-Lay plant 2021-07-11 [KCUR ]

Community members, businesses show support for Frito-Lay workers on strike by donating food, money to pay bills 2021-07-07 [The Capital-Journal]

Union workers head to the picket line on first day of strike at Frito-Lay 2021-07-06 [WIBW]

Frito Lay union workers on strike, picketing outside plant in Topeka For more info 2021-07-05 [KSNT]

Union workers at Bradken Foundry in Atchison on strike 2021-03-24 [The News-press]

Wichita workers complained to OSHA about COVID. Will a new standard help enforcement? 2021-03-14 [Kansas]

Community college ready to train high-hazard workers during COVID-19 2020-09-27 [Hutchinson News]

Former prisoners need a labor union 2020-09-05 [Hutchinson News]

KS essential workers who contract COVID-19 can get help covering medical bills 2020-08-28 [KWCH]

Wichita union asks companies to shut down then make medical supplies to fight COVID-19 2020-03-31 [Wichita Eagle]

Union workers vote to possibly open talks with Spirit 2020-01-15 [NBC]

Boeing supplier Spirit Aero to layoff 2,800 workers in wake of 737 Max debacle 2020-01-11 [MarketWatch]

Topeka paying up to $15,000 for workers to move there 2019-12-15 [WSB-TV]

Love prevails as KS Gov. Laura Kelly restores LGBT protections for state employees 2019-01-21 [Daily Kos]

2 workers shot at elementary school in Overland Park, Kansas 2018-07-04 [MSN]

Former Waste Management worker claims he was fired as retaliation for union activities 2018-04-03 [KSHB]

Procter & Gamble Closing Plant, Affecting 280 Workers 2018-02-08 [USNews]

Fran works 6 days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless 2017-08-22 [Guardian ]

Since the Brownback tax cuts were implemented, job growth has slowed down, gross domestic product is down and public infrastructure is in disrepair 2017-06-02 [AFSCME]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]