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Louisiana Starbucks Workers: ‘No Contract, No Coffee!’ 2026-01-16 [The Progressive]

Factory boss gives workers $240 million in bonuses after $1.7B sale of family company 2025-12-26 [Local 12]

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]

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]

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]

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

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]