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New Orleans nurses prepare for three-day strike for nurse retention starting November 11 2025-11-07 [National Nurses United]

Tensions flare at Baton Rouge bus agency as ex-driver raises sexual harassment allegations 2025-10-15 [The Advocate]

New Orleans nurses prepare for two-day strike against management retaliation 2025-07-11 [National Nurses United]

‘The system itself is the problem’: Hundreds rally in New Orleans against ICE raids as part of national SEIU protests 2025-07-02 [NOLA]

Hundreds protest Louisiana ICE facilities as a union targets 'detention alley' 2025-07-01 [The Advocate]

Baton Rouge bus worker strike begins, will go on 'as long as it takes,' union says 2025-03-03 [The Advocate]

The Super Bowl Is in New Orleans This Week—So Is a Major Strike 2025-02-05 [In These Times]

DOL recovers $844K in back wages, damages for 158 workers illegally deprived of overtime wages by Louisiana home care providers 2025-01-17 [DOL]

Starbucks workers in Baton Rouge join nationwide strike 2024-12-24 [WAFB]

More local school bus workers join union 2024-12-10 [WAFB]

Caddo Parish School Board wants to give teachers and workers a stipend 2024-08-04 [KTBS]

Fifth Circuit appeals court sides with Angola’s Farm Line workers 2024-07-15 [The Lens NOLA]

Tulane University faculty votes to form the school’s first union 2024-06-19 [WWL]

Standing strong, fighting for worker freedoms in LA 2024-04-06 [AFSCME]

'It feels empowering:' Louisiana Starbucks workers join union 2024-03-31 [The Acadiana Advocate]

The Retail Workers Demanding More 2024-03-08 [Mother Jones]

Vessel owner pleads guilty in plot to smuggle workers, drugs from Honduras to Louisiana 2023-12-10 [WHTM]

Threat or not? Elon Musk gets new hearing on tweet about Tesla workers’ stock amid UAW union effort 2023-07-23 [KRQE]

Louisiana facilities laying off hundreds of workers in July 2023-07-10 [Lafayette Daily Advertiser]

City workers win right to unionize in New Orleans For more info 2023-06-24 [WDSU]

LA unemployed workers could see benefits cut in half 2023-04-29 [Greater Baton Rouge Biz Report]

‘You’re a slave’: Inside Louisiana’s forced prison labor and a failed overhaul attempt 2023-01-01 [The Post]

Tulane nurses condemn Louisiana attorney-general for holding crucial hearing without New Orleans community 2022-12-03 [National Nurses United]

Dollar store workers in the South have a labor movement. Just don't call it a union 2022-09-04 [NPR]

'Save Us!' Unemployed tourism and convention workers plead for help at an ‘Empty Event' 2020-10-22 [NOLA]

Federal Prisons Agency “Put Staff in Harm's Way” of Coronavirus 2020-04-04 [Marshall Project]

Trump's plan to help blue-collar workers would be a disaster for the black working class of New Orleans 2017-08-21 [Washington Post]

LA sanitation workers strike over unfair conditions 2021-11-05 [WDSU]

New Orleans ATU 1560 Pres Valerie Jefferson Fired By RTA For Defending Worker and Human Rights For more info 2021-09-25 [LVP]

Rescuers continue search for missing workers from capsized boat in Gulf 2021-04-17 [KRQE]

All essential workers in Louisiana eligible for COVID-19 vaccine starting March 22 2021-03-19 [KNOE]

New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike For Better Wages 2021-01-12 [KET]

Louisiana business advocates hope to avoid strict crackdown on employee misclassification 2021-01-08 [Center Square]

'Censorship and union-busting': CATS employee lawsuit says they were fired for criticizing management 2021-01-02 [Advocate]

Unemployed hospitality workers plead for local help as federal relief is blocked 2020-10-22 [WLTV]

Former New Orleans airport labor union president admits embezzling $15,000 2020-10-01 [Times-Picayune]

New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike & Solidarity From Seattle and Tacoma For more info 2020-09-12 [LVP]

'They're being treated as disposable;' New Orleans sanitation workers continue strike for living wage, hazard pay 2020-06-21 [4WWL]

Board approves hazard pay for essential workers 2020-05-30 [ABC]

Work-release inmates brought in as New Orleans sanitation workers continue protest 2020-05-10 [WDSU]

Baton Rouge bus workers' union claims CATS is not providing enough safety equipment 2020-04-21 [Advocate]

Construction workers considered essential during stay-at-home order 2020-03-29 [KPLC]

Union Decries VA Response to Lynched Doll Found in Staff Area of Louisiana Facility 2019-11-11 [Gov Exec]

Statue unveiled to honor Latino workers who helped rebuild city after Katrina 2018-11-11 [WWL]

International High School of New Orleans must recognize union, court rules 2018-09-27 [NOLA]

Kennedy wants unclaimed retirement funds sent to states 2018-09-23 [Albany Times Union]

New Orleans woman among leaders in McDonald's strike against sexual harassment 2018-09-13 [The Times-Picayune]

GOP Louisiana lawmakers expand inmate labor use for construction 2018-06-10 [Albany Times Union]

Task Force Says GAME ON in Fight to Stop Misclassifying Workers 2017-10-27 [WorkersComp]

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]