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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]

TSA Shutters Baltimore Airport Security Checkpoint Over ‘Excessive Callouts' 2019-01-20 [Huff Post]

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]

Opinion: State's Essential Workers Deserve More Protections on the Job 2021-02-15 [MD Matters]

Many Workers in Md. Don't Have the Right to Form a Union. That Needs to Change 2021-05-20 [MD Matters]

Judge Schedules Hearing that Could Further Extend Unemployment Benefits, Franchot and Workers Decry Hogan's Moves 2021-07-07 [MD Matters]

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

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]