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Labor union, community groups send open letter to Hyundai asking for meeting over Ascension plans 2026-04-02 [The Advocate (Baton Rouge LA)]

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

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]