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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]

Raided Plant Owners ‘Willfully' Used Undocumented Workers 2019-08-10 [Huff Post]

‘Breaking Point': Restaurant Workers Push Back Amid Unemployment Benefit Crackdown 2021-05-29 [MS Free Press]

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]

Undocumented workers find it hard to access worker's comp 2019-03-04 [Gillette News Record]

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 Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers 2019-08-09 [ME Public]

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

1-12-1946 130,000 Oakland, USA workers go on general strike. [more]

1-12-1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. [more]

2-12-2022 President Biden and Congress employ the Railway Labor Act to force 100,000 railroad workers to accept the government's tentative agreement and prevent workers from striking. [more]

3-12-1866 The 10-hour day comes after a strike in the textiles industry in Fall River, Massachusetts. [more]

3-12-1946 Department store salespeople and demonstrators in Oakland, California call a general strike. [more]

4-12-1970 Cesar Chavez sentenced to 20 days in jail for not calling off United Farm Workers boycott of lettuce grower Bud Antle Inc. [more]

5-12-1955 The two main union federations in the USA merge to form the AFL-CIO, electing George Meany as president, [more]

6-12-1907 The worst mining disaster in American history occurs when an explosion in a Monongah mine in West Virginia kills 361 miners. [more]

7-12-1896 In Chicago, 11 activists found the National Union of Steam Engineers of America; the forerunner of International Union of Operating Engineers. [more]

8-12-1886 The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded by 26 craft unions. Samuel Gompers is elected president. [more]

8-12-1882 Birthday of Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mooney was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. [more]

8-12-2001 230 jailed teachers in Middletown Township, NJ, ordered freed after agreement to end 9day strike & enter mediation. [more]

8-12-1916 Bernice Fisher born. US civil rights activist, union organizer, original founder of Congress of Racial Equality. [more]

11-12-1951 A build-up of coal dust causes an explosion at the New Orient mine in West Frankfort, Illinois. 159 dead. 10 days earlier, new extraction techniques had been approved by state authorities. [more]

14-12-1995 Boeing machinists in the US win a pay rise and an imporved health plan after a 69 day strike. [more]

14-12-1852 American Socialist Daniel De Leon born. Trade union organiser, journalist and Marxist theoretician who died in 1914. [more]

15-12-1941 8 days after the Pearl Harbor attack, the AFL pledged not to organise any strikes in factories linked to national defence for the duration of World War II. [more]

15-12-1921 The Kansas National Guard is ordered to quell a protest by women, the "Army of the Amazons" going from mine to mine to dissuade non-strikers from taking their spouses' jobs in the Pittsburgh mines. [more]

16-12-1951 The Bagel Bakers' Union observes a strike of good faith in 34 factories in New York demanding better health and safety conditions and sick leave. [more]

16-12-1977 Eight cashiers at a bank in Willmar, Minnesota, start first strike against a bank for equal pay. They earned half the salaries of their male colleagues. [more]

19-12-1983 Greyhound bus strike ends when members of Amalgamated Transit Union ratify a contract that slashes wages & benefits by 15% [more]

19-12-1907 A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. [more]

20-12-1906 Arrival of the first group of 15 Filipino farm workers recruited by the Sugar Planters Association. By 1932, there will be more than 100,000 Filipinos working in Hawaii's plantations. [more]

20-12-2005 Thousands of New York public transport workers are going into what they think is a 48-hour strike. Declared illegal, union is fined $ 2.5 million and the president receives 10 days in prison. [more]

21-12-1916 Emma Tenayuca, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

21-12-1919 Emma Goldman is deported to Russia as part of a post-war crackdown on union and left-wing activists. [more]

23-12-1908 AFL officers are found in contempt of court for urging a labor boycott of Buck's Stove and Range Co. in St Louis. [more]

24-12-1913 Seventy three striking miners and their families die in a stampede at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan, after an unknown man enters shouting 'Fire!' [more]

25-12-1910 Bomb destroys part of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles where a bitter strike is ongoing. [more]

25-12-1904 Philip Vera Cruz, labour leader & activist in Asian American civil rights movement, is born. Co-founder of United Farm Workers' Union. [more]

26-12-1877 First national convention of the Socialist Labor Party, the first Marxist party founded in the USA. [more]

27-12-1943 President Roosevelt seizes railroads to avoid a national strike. [more]

28-12-1936 Workers occupy General Motors' body plant in Fisher, Cleveland, in an effort to win recognition of their union by GM. [more]

29-12-2006 More than 15,000 United Steel Workers members at 16 Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants end an 86-day strike, ratify three-year contract. [more]

30-12-1936 The most famous of the Depression-era "sit down" strikes in the US begins at GM's Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan. [more]

30-12-1899 In the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missiouri, US, 33 railroad clerks form Local Lodge Number 1 of the Order of the Railroad Clerks of America. [more]

31-12-1969 Rank-and-file UMWA activist Jock Yablonski is murdered along with his family by hitmen acting on the orders of union president. [more]