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Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union 2026-04-12 [TRNN]

Cannabis Workers in MD Continue to Join Local 27 2026-03-22 [UFCW]

2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference Jan. 15-18 • Baltimore, MD For more info 2026-01-15 [AFL-CIO]

MD union files unfair labor practice claims against the state 2025-12-25 [WTOP]

Library Admins Are Using Public Money to Hire Union Busters Against Workers 2025-10-28 [Truthout]

Olney Rally for Workers Over Billionaires #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day 2025-08-24 [Mobilize.us]

Baltimore nurses announce historic one-day strike for patient safety 2025-07-15 [National Nurses United]

Cannabis workers picket in Cumberland 2025-06-29 [Reddit]

Maryland makes no-interest loan available to former federal workers 2025-06-06 [Baltimore Banner]

IAM Union Files Injunction to Protect Right of Striking Maryland IKEA Workers to Peacefully Assemble 2025-01-11 [IAM]

'Understandably very upset about it': Union president says firefighters aren't being paid properly 2024-12-07 [WBAL]

‘Ascension Hospital…is making a mockery of the Church doctrine’: Baltimore Catholic nurses picket Bishops for fair contract 2024-11-24 [TRNN]

Workers at IKEA's Distribution Center in Perryville go on strike, potentially impacting operations 2024-11-15 [WMAR]

Heat killed a sanitation worker. Pending safety rules may have saved him 2024-08-10 [Wash Post]

Apple Store workers in Maryland win first contract 2024-08-07 [New York Times]

Heatstroke death of Baltimore worker during trash collection prompts calls for workplace safety 2024-08-07 [The Gazette]

Apple reaches its first-ever union deal with workers at a Maryland store 2024-08-06 [CBS]

Univ System of MD Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify First System-Wide Union Contract 2024-08-04 [AFSCME]

Union deal approved for thousands of MD Univ workers 2024-08-04 [WMAR]

Apple Store Employee Union Wins 10% Raises for Maryland Store Workers 2024-07-30 [Retail Touchpoints]

Union workers protest in downtown Baltimore 2024-07-28 [AFRO]

US union and Apple reach tentative labour agreement 2024-07-27 [Reuters]

MD is set to finalize its heat standard for workers later this summer 2024-07-24 [NPR]

Black women risked it all in the Crisfield strike of 1938. Maryland finally recognizes them 2024-07-16 [The Banner]

Apple Store Employees in MD Authorize Strike Amid Labor Unrest 2024-07-16 [MSN]

Glenstone museum workers form union after contentious campaign 2024-06-08 [Washington Post]

Baltimore bridge: Crew trapped on ship seven weeks after bridge collapse 2024-05-17 [RNZ]

Apple Store workers in Maryland authorize a strike 2024-05-13 [Washington Post]

Apple Store workers in Maryland vote to authorize strike 2024-05-13 [USAToday]

Apple’s Maryland store workers vote to authorize strike 2024-05-13 [CNBC]

Apple's Maryland store workers vote to authorize strike 2024-05-12 [Investing]

Workers Memorial Day honors the victims of the Key Bridge Collapse 2024-04-29 [WMAR]

From The Baltimore Ship Bridge Wreck To Norfolk Southern East Palestine Derailment & Vinyl Chloride For more info 2024-04-02 [lvpsf]

Iron Workers Union Statement on Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse 2024-03-27 [Ironworkers]

Baltimore Key bridge collapse: Six missing construction workers presumed dead as search suspended 2024-03-27 [Independent]

Unionized hospitality workers in Baltimore to march for better pay 2024-02-08 [CBS]

Apple illegally denied benefits to the first unionized store in the country, says National Labor Relations Board 2023-11-24 [The Business Insider]

UniServ Director – Allegany and Garrett Counties 2023-07-21 [Maryland State Education Association]

Justice for MD public safety workers whose timesheets were illegally changed 2023-07-20 [AFSCME]

UniServ Director -- Eastern Shore 2023-07-07 [MD State Ed Assn]

Unionized Apple store employees propose tipping, increased pay, and more paid time off 2023-05-08 [Techspot]

Apple’s first unionized workers say the company is withholding new benefits 2022-10-29 [Verge]

Apple is reportedly withholding new benefits from unionized retail workers 2022-10-13 [Yahoo]

Prince George's teachers win 6-4-3 wage increase and get more paid planning time in new contract 2022-09-27 [Washington Post]

U. of MD raises minimum wage for student workers to $15 2022-09-04 [Wash Post]

Workers at MOM's Organic Market in Hampden move to form union 2022-07-28 [FOX]

Cold Baltimore Classrooms Are ‘Inhumane,' Teachers Union Says 2018-01-05 [NYTimes]

Towson, MD - ‘People are stressed': Apple workers set to begin first in-person union election 2022-06-06 [The Guardian]

‘Never seen it like this': In a town of low-paid federal workers, the shutdown stings 2019-01-21 [Wash Post]

Federal labor board issues order in nurses' union effort at Johns Hopkins Hospital 2019-06-06 [San Diego Union-Tribune]

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]