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Judge: Distillery undermined workers’ vote on unionization 2024-04-14 [NW AR Democrat Gazette]

DOL RECOVERS NEARLY $100K IN WAGES, DAMAGES FOR 31 MISCLASSIFIED OK CONSTRUCTION WORKERS 2024-03-28 [US DOL]

Amazon violated workers’ rights at crucial Kentucky air hub, labor regulators allege 2024-03-15 [Washington Post]

Bill Eliminating Work Break Rights Rings Alarm Bells 2024-03-04 [Newsweek]

Auto Workers Threaten to Strike Again at Ford's Huge KY Truck Plant in Local Contract Dispute 2024-02-17 [USNews]

Trader Joe's disputes union's eelection win, files another appeal 2024-02-10 [Huffpost]

Teamsters union responds after UPS announces layoffs at Louisville facility 2023-12-30 [WHAS / ABC]

Over 1,100 DHL Express workers start strike 2023-12-09 [FOX]

Inside an alleged Amazon union-busting campaign in Kentucky: 'They want to scare us' 2023-12-08 [ABC]

‘We can’t trust them’: workers decry alleged union busting at Amazon air hub 2023-11-29 [The Guardian]

2nd worker trapped under collapsed Kentucky coal prep plant has died, governor says 2023-11-05 [AP]

Officials identify two workers — one killed, one still missing — after Kentucky coal plant collapse 2023-11-05 [NBC]

Child as young as 11 operated forklift at kentucky distribution center, authorities say 2023-10-21 [NBC]

Auto Workers Escalate: Surprise Strike at Massive Kentucky Ford Truck Plant 2023-10-13 [Labor Notes]

UAW Strike Expands To Kentucky As Ford Workers In Louisville Walk Out 2023-10-13 [MTN]

OPINION: UPS and Teamsters negotiations matter to us all. UPS is subsidized with public dollars. 2023-07-10 [Courier Journal]

Workers union voices concern over Murray State University's lack of transparency 2023-06-03 [WPSD]

10-year-olds, hundreds of minors found working at McDonald's in KY, other states 2023-05-05 [Courier Jrnl]

UPS union negotiating contract for thousands of Louisville workers 2023-04-26 [LPM]

Univ KY undergraduate student workers march for better wages For more info 2023-04-15 [WKYT]

Trader Joe’s Workers In Kentucky Form Union 2023-01-26 [HuffPost]

Workers at Louisville Trader Joe's seek to form union For more info 2022-12-21 [WDRB]

Amazon workers in Northern Kentucky trying to gain support to unionize 2022-12-11 [WLWT]

Louisville, KY, transit workers authorize possible strike 2022-10-23 [News Advocate]

Heine Brothers’ Coffee workers file charges against company for anti-union ‘retaliation’ 2022-07-26 [WAVE]

Heine Brothers workers to hold union vote after alleging unfair labor practices For more info 2022-07-26 [WLKY]

Heine Brothers' workers file for election in effort to get union recognized 2022-07-26 [WDRB]

Heine Brothers' workers union files charges over Highlands shop closure 2022-07-25 [Courier Jrnl]

‘We're human beings too.' Lexington sanitation workers call for fair pay scale at rally 2019-04-06 [Lexington Herald-Leader]

‘Move ‘em out' trucks arrive at Capitol for lawmakers who voted for pension bill 2018-10-06 [Lexington Herald-Leader]

Teachers, public employees rally at State Capitol with U Hauls; dominent theme: ‘Remember in November' 2018-10-08 [No KY Tribune]

‘Don't quit. Organize': Workers in North Carolina, Maryland and Kentucky bid to become unionized as criticism of retail monolith grows 2022-07-13 [Guardian]

Republican-controlled legislature in Kentucky passes ‘right to work' measure 2017-01-08 [Washington Post]

KY AFL-CIO: KY GOP To Come After Worker's Compensation 2017-10-24 [Union Edge]

Here's What You Need To Know About RTW 2017-01-06 [WFPL]

State to Move Ahead With Overhaul of Workers' Comp System 2018-04-09 [Insurance Jrnl]

Kentucky's main pension fund for state workers was already frail. It just got weaker 2018-11-09 [Lexington Herald-Leader]

Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Labor Unions' Challenge to State Right-To-Work Law 2018-11-28 [Natl Law Rev]

Why Workers Everywhere Should Be Scared by Kentucky's Assault on Unions 2017-01-06 [The Nation]

KY American Water says strike won't cause service interruptions 2022-02-12 [WTVQ]

Campbellsville Amazon workers could be unionizing For more info 2022-07-09 [WHAS]

Amazon Union Targets Kentucky Warehouse in Bid for a Drive 2022-07-09 [Bloomberg]

Apple Store Workers in KY Announce Organizing Campaign 2022-05-26 [Bloomberg]

Workers epic response to boss' savage note banning employees from talking about pay 2022-04-11 [NZ Herald]

Heine Brothers' employees make push to form union For more info 2022-04-09 [WDRB]

Ky. bill slashing unemployment passes Senate committee 2022-03-02 [WFPL]

Injured Kentucky Candle Factory Workers File Suit Against Company 2021-12-18 [Insurance Jrnl]

Tornado fails to budge the union 'Rock of Labor' 2021-12-17 [Daily Kos]

Kentucky tornado: Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say 2021-12-14 [NBC]

Heaven Hill Distillery reaches 5-year contract with union workers after weekslong strike 2021-10-30 [Courier-Journal]

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]