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Blue Bottle Nestle Workers Organize 2024-04-15 [WorkingMass]

Boston University graduate workers vote to strike starting Monday 2024-03-22 [Boston Globe]

Battle in Boston 2024-03-01 [TWU]

Workers at McLean Hospital win hard-fought first contract 2024-01-19 [AFSCME]

Teachers Illegal Strike Wave Rolls On 2024-01-14 [Labour Notes]

Bounced checks leave workers unpaid again at Roxbury nursing home 2024-01-11 [Boston25]

Boston engineering firm, W.S. Barrett and Son, fined after workers exposed to cancer-causing fumes fined after workers exposed to cancer-causing fumes 2023-12-03 [ITV]

'Women Build Boston' Convention Celebrates Union Tradeswomen 2023-10-29 [WBZ]

Women welders team up to create permanent jewelry that's Made in Mass 2023-10-16 [WCVB]

Woman set to lead MA AFL-CIO for first time 2023-09-29 [The Globe]

Ahead of October Election, Harvard Undergrad Union Campaign Faces Tight Hiring Deadline 2023-09-05 [The Crimson]

‘This is a moment for workers’: Service employees march for better pay, working conditions 2023-09-03 [Boston Globe]

Labor group challenges Starbucks’ union-busting in Northampton meeting 2023-08-16 [The Reminder]

MBTA reaches deal with largest union 2023-08-04 [Trains]

NLRB backs unionized Hadley Trader Joe’s workers in discipline dispute 2023-07-11 [MassLive]

Local UPS workers prepare for strike as negotiations hit standstill with Teamsters 2023-07-10 [WGGB/WSHM]

Trader Joe's Illegally Retaliated Against Pro-Union Workers: Federal Officials 2023-07-09 [HuffPost]

Director of Field and Organizing 2023-07-07 [MTA]

Some Logan Airport workers set to strike 2023-06-23 [7 NEWS WHDH Boston]

‘It’s about respect’: Union workers at Encore Boston Harbor vote to authorize strike 2023-06-22 [Boston 25 News]

Director of Human Resources 2023-06-19 [MTA]

Staff Counsel 2023-06-19 [MTA]

How Worker Solidarity Propelled a Union Drive at the Country’s Richest University 2023-06-13 [In These Times]

David Zaslav Gets Booed at Boston University Graduation Amid the Writers Strike 2023-05-21 [Hollywood Reporter]

Fisheries Workers, Cut for Organizing, File Labor Board Charges 2023-05-04 [Labour Notes]

Exposed: Mass General Hospital's Shocking Move to Crush Employee Unionization Efforts! 2023-04-27 [Labor Lab]

Owner of Mass. pizza chain accused of beating, exploiting undocumented workers 2023-03-17 [WCVB]

Lewis presents International Women’s Day exhibit at Chicopee Public Library 2023-03-09 [Reminder]

Massachusetts teachers unions push for the right to strike 2023-01-04 [The Globe]

The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized, and Made Labor History 2022-12-27 [Teen Vogue]

When the union comes to a cafe near you 2022-12-23 [Boston Globe via goodwordnews]

Undaunted by Fines, Massachusetts Teachers Defy Strike Ban 2022-11-17 [Labour Notes]

Malden teachers union, School Committee reach tentative deal to end strike in Massachusetts city 2022-10-25 [WCVB]

Agreement reached to end teacher strike in Haverhill; School open Friday 2022-10-25 [CBS Boston]

Teachers in two Massachusetts cities strike, this week in the war on workers 2022-10-25 [Daily Kos]

Starbucks Is Using the Police as Strikebreakers 2022-10-04 [The Progressive]

Strikers on their 60th day on Comm. Ave. 2022-09-25 [The Free Press]

Starbucks demands union strikers move on 60th day of stakeout, protest ensues 2022-09-16 [The Free Press]

Mass MoCA workers strike for one day over pay and benefits, as talks for a first contract continue 2022-08-20 [Berkshire Eagle]

Starbucks workers strike outside Boston-area stores, allege coffee giant is retaliating against unionization 2022-08-02 [WCVB]

Unionized Starbucks workers go on strike in Worcester, 'sip-ins' staged elsewhere 2022-08-01 [Telegram&Gazette]

Starbucks workers at Commonwealth Ave. in Boston plan rally on Aug. 1 after being excluded from new benefits 2022-07-31 [MassLive]

Trader Joe’s employees form union, citing concerns about health benefits, pay 2022-07-30 [Benefits Canada]

Trader Joe’s Workers Unionize In Historic Vote In MA 2022-07-29 [Huff Post]

Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts vote to unionize for the first time 2022-07-29 [Washington Post]

Group of female MBTA workers allege harassment, discrimination, report says 2022-07-28 [WCVB]

Trader Joe's workers set to vote on forming a union 2022-07-27 [CBS]

Hadley Trader Joe’s Urges Workers To Vote Against Union Ahead Of Election 2022-07-26 [Huff Post]

‘Educators will not be silenced': State teachers union responds to ruling of illegal strike in Andover 2020-09-11 [Boston.com]

‘They're going to try to do here what they did in California': A potential gig worker ballot fight is looming in Massachusetts 2021-06-23 [Boston.com]

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]