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Stitched in struggle: The forgotten era of Black garment workers in N.O. 2026-06-22 [Verite]

New Orleans nurse prepared for five-day strike against LCMC’s surface bargaining 2026-04-29 [NNU]

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

3-06-1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in New York City. [more]

3-06-2016 A federal judge ruled that women's soccer players could not go on strike, despite their collective bargaining agreement (which included a no-strike clause) having expired. The women were in dispute over pay discrimination. [more]

4-06-1912 Massachusetts becomes the first US state to establish a minimum wage [more]

4-06-2012 When National Football League referees failed to agree to a new contract, which included big pension cuts, the NFL locked them out and began hiring scabs to replace them. Bosses came up with a revised offer which was agreed on 26 September. [more]

6-06-1933 10,000 auto workers strike in Lansing, Michigan and paralyze the city for a month following the arrest of 9 of them, including the union president's wife forced to leave 3 children alone at home. [more]

8-06-1917 Disaster at the Spectator mine in Butte, Montana: 168 dead. [more]

9-06-1865 Helen Marot, campaigner for working women, is born. [more]

10-06-1963 Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women. [more]

11-06-1913 Police shoot at maritime workers on strike at United Fruit Co. in New Orleans, killing one. [more]

12-06-1904 Defying AFL's Samuel Gompers, 50,000 members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen walk off their jobs. [more]

16-06-1918 Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene Debs makes his famous speech against capitalism in Canton, OH, which will land him in jail. [more]

17-06-1903 In Philadelphia, "Mother Jones" organizes a demonstration of children who had been mutilated in textile factories to draw public attention to their fate. [more]

19-06-1912 The eight-hour day is adopted for Federal employees [more]

20-06-1947 President Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, but his veto is overturned by Congress three days later. [more]

20-06-1893 The American Railway Union is founded with Eugène Debs at its head. [more]

21-06-1877 Hanging in Pennsylvania of 10 miners accused of being "Molly Maguires" activists sentenced to death on the basis of an investigation carried out by a private detectives agency sponsored by a private company. [more]

23-06-1999 Workers at Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in North Carolina vote for union recognition after a 25 year struggle [more]

27-06-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World, later popularly known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago with the aim of uniting all workers in One Big Union [more]

29-06-1894 Over 125,000 workers on two dozen railroads have joined the boycott of Pullman cars [more]

30-06-1918 Socialist anf labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio [more]