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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]

AT&T Louisiana union workers OK strike if negotiations aren't reached 2019-07-21 [Greater Baton Rouge Biz Report]

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]

Dollar General Workers Are Fed Up 2022-06-02 [Jacobin]

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]

Families of boat workers clinging to hope 2021-04-17 [Tulsa World]

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]

LA Largest Employer Rakes In Billions While Failing to Protect Workers 2020-11-23 [Big Easy Mag]

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]

Superdome renovation project sees surge in positive coronavirus tests among workers 2020-06-17 [ESPN]

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]

Teamsters planning strike authorization vote in UPS negotiations 2018-05-12 [LA Biz 1st]

Louisiana GOP Proposes Pension Reform Bill: Would raise retirement age and add defined contribution element to state pension plans 2018-04-04 [AI-CIO]

Teacher handcuffed after speaking out about pay at Vermillion schools meeting 2018-01-09 [CBS]

How New Orleans hospitality workers are organizing their industry: Organized labor seeks a foothold in the city's most important economic driver 2017-12-12 [Gambit]

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

Service industry workers rally Sept. 16 for better wages, fair scheduling 2017-09-17 [Gambit]

AFSCME Strong Works at Louisiana State Penitentiary 2017-04-20 [AFSCME]

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]