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Fremont, Nebraska: The town that can’t live without migrants, but isn't sure it wants to live with them 2024-03-25 [NBC News]

NE employees union steps up legal fight, says state in contempt for ignoring remote work ruling 2024-01-05 [The Examiner]

Nebraska workers receive another wage increase because of Initiative 433 2024-01-03 [Nebraska Appleseed]

Rail union says Union Pacific layoffs of over 1,000 track maintenance workers jeopardizes safety 2023-12-03 [Panhandle Post]

Group presses petition seeking paid sick leave for all Nebraska workers 2023-06-23 [Nebraska Examiner]

Nebraska Amazon workers still unpaid 2022-09-29 [McCook Gazette]

Rail union that rejected deal signs new tentative agreement 2022-09-28 [NBC]

Workers at Shopko warehouse in Sarpy are getting laid off — without promised severance pay 2019-04-15 [Omaha World Herald]

Inside look at Kellog's strike overnight 2021-10-22 [KMTV]

Kellogg's workers win big raise at Cheez-It plant 2022-03-31 [MLive]

After Spate of Strikes, Big Raises for Omaha Kellogg Workers 2022-03-31 [USNews]

BNSF railroad looking to block 17,000 workers from striking 2022-01-20 [1011Now]

Nebraska employers raising wages to attract more workers 2021-10-31 [NBC]

Kellogg Cereal-Worker Strike Continues as Trades Union Returns 2021-10-19 [Bloomberg]

Fed up by pandemic, U.S. food workers launch rare strikes 2021-10-09 [Indiana Gazette]

'We all quit': Local Burger King sign goes viral 2021-07-13 [KLKN]

Nebraska advances virus protections for meatpacking workers 2021-05-07 [NBC]

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Nebraska AFL-CIO Rallies with Meatpacking Workers in Lincoln 2021-04-17 [Workplace Fairness]

It's safe: Latino groups combat vaccine fears among Nebraska's essential workers 2021-03-06 [NBC]

Bloody Masks and Fevers on Shift: Immigrant Workers Face Abuse in NE Meatpacking Plant 2020-11-24 [ACLU]

Lawsuit Alleges Worker Danger: Poultry Plant Workers Union Points to USDA Line Speed Waivers as COVID-19 Risk 2020-07-29 [Progressive Farmer]

State, prison workers union reach agreement on pay to resolve staffing problems 2019-12-28 [Omaha World-Herald]

Online retailer Hayneedle lays off more than 200 workers in Omaha 2019-05-04 [BH News Service ]

Prison workers disappointed by arbiter wage and labor decisions 2019-03-03 [Neighbor]

Union workers volunteer, providing free electrical repairs for elderly 2018-10-28 [KETV]

Report: Unions Key to Reducing Income Inequality 2018-09-11 [PNS]

ICE raid targeting employers and more than 100 workers rocks a small Nebraska town 2018-08-11 [Wash Post]

Prison and security workers vote to create new union 2018-07-20 [Omaha.com]

Prison workers voice worries about morale, turnover 2017-10-22 [Seattle Times]

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]