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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]

The Radical Teachers' Movement Comes to Baltimore 2019-06-08 [The Nation]

Apple ready to bargain with its first U.S. store to unionize: source 2022-06-25 [Saltwire]

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]