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‘It’s a terrible situation’: MS river workers react to long-standing maritime act waived 2026-06-11 [WLBT]

MS employers open to hiring formerly incarcerated workers, study finds 2026-04-26 [WLOX]

Poultry Workers in Mississippi Ratify a First Contract 2026-02-02 [UFCW]

‘Almost Like Home’ brings Christmas dinner – and community – to Starkville’s essential workers 2025-12-29 [Dispatch]

MS AT&T workers among 17,000 on strike for 'unfair labor practices' 2024-08-18 [WAPT]

Jackson Starbucks Workers First In State To Unionize 2024-06-24 [MS Free Press]

Workers form Mississippi’s first unionized Starbucks 2024-06-20 [WJTV]

Jackson Starbucks files for unionization for better work conditions 2024-06-06 [WLBT]

Unions rally for Brandon Presley ahead of governor’s race 2023-10-29 [Today]

Maximus Call Center Workers Warn of Strike During Open Enrollment 2023-09-08 [CWA]

America’s Corporate Tragedy. A boy has died in a poultry processing plant, and a hashtag is no response 2023-07-23 [Atlantic]

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare 2023-01-25 [NPR]

Farms settle suits on using immigrants over Black US workers 2023-01-07 [AP]

Company fires 2,700 workers while they were sleeping days before Thanksgiving 2022-11-27 [Guardian]

One dead after three workers fall into MS grain storage bin 2022-10-15 [WREG]

Jackson Mississippi, Struggle For Safe Water & Labor With Robert Shaffer, Pres Mississippi AFL-CIO For more info 2022-09-08 [LVP]

MS ICU nurse: ‘I don't have any strength left' as Covid cases surge among unvaccinated patients For more info 2021-08-12 [NBC]

MS ICU Nurse: ‘We Need Help' As Covid Cases Surge For more info 2021-08-12 [MSNBC]

Investigation recovers $285K for Morton plant workers 2022-07-05 [WJTV]

Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public 2021-06-28 [Politico]

As Mask Mandates Lift, Retail Workers Again Feel Vulnerable 2021-03-31 [NYTimes]

MS Food Processing Company Is Looking For Workers After ICE Raids 2019-08-13 [NPR]

ICE Mississippi Raid That Saw 680 Workers Arrested Took Place On First Day Of School, Causing Chaos For Children 2019-08-09 [Newsweek]

MS Immigration Raids Net Hundreds Of Workers 2019-08-08 [NPR]

Thousands of airline food workers vote to authorize a strike 2019-06-24 [WCBI]

Activist and labor organizer from 1963 lunch-counter protest photo dies at 84 2019-01-12 [NBC]

CWA: Federal contractor underpaying workers at 11 call centers nationwide because of misclassification 2018-02-03 [USNews]

Mississippi shipyard union members vote to extend contract 2017-11-29 [AP]

UAW Alleges Nissan Surveils Workers at Plant Where Union Failed 2017-09-30 [Newsmax]

*Nissan, you made us mad*: Union promises to fight defeat 2017-08-07 [Guardian]

UAW accuses Nissan of scare tactics in big loss in organizing drive 2017-08-06 [NY Times]

Nissan workers reject UAW in crucial vote 2017-08-05 [USAToday]

Nissan workers in the South reject UAW, two to one 2017-08-05 [NY Times]

Bernie Sanders and DNC chair Tom Perez attack Nissan for anti-union campaign 2017-08-04 [Wash Post]

Workers at Nissan plant casting ballots on union 2017-08-04 [Wash Post]

Nissan attacked for one of 'nastiest anti-union campaigns' in modern US history 2017-08-02 [The Guardian]

Nissan workers deserve a voice 2017-08-03 [USA Today]

Bernie Sanders: Nissan dispute could go down as most vicious anti-union crusade in decades 2017-08-03 [The Guardian]

NLRB lodges charge at Nissan ahead of union vote 2017-08-02 [USAToday]

Auto Workers' Union Rolls the Dice at Nissan's Canton Plant 2017-08-02 [Reuters]

Racially Charged Nissan Vote Is a Test for U.A.W. in the South 2017-08-02 [NYTimes]

Nissan workers hope for historic win in 14-year fight to unionize 2017-07-24 [Guardian]

UAW: U.S. Nissan workers would vote for union right now 2017-07-21 [Reuters]

U.A.W. Says Nissan Workers Seek a Union Vote 2017-07-13 [NYTimes]

U.A.W. Says Nissan Workers Seek a Union Vote in Mississippi 2017-07-12 [NYT]

Nissan accused of wrongly blocking union activity at plant 2017-03-06 [Washington Post]

Bernie Sanders backs unionization campaign as Democrats draft populist agenda 2017-03-06 [Washington Post]

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]