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Sesame Street writers avert strike with tentative contract agreement that gives historic jurisdiction and minimum rates for animated and social media content, AI protections, and improvements to residuals 2024-04-21 [Washington Post]

NYC CLC and UFT Host Labor Women's Power Breakfast 2024-04-13 [AFL-CIO]

‘Thrilled and excited’: Uptown Barnes & Noble workers join nationwide retail union 2024-03-15 [amNY]

Retail workers want employers to improve safety on the job 2024-03-05 [Times]

Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Owner Charged With Stealing $20,000 in Worker Wages 2024-03-22 [Eater New York]

Carpenters seek women to pursue career in field 2024-03-24 [Mid-Hudson]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Nitehawk Cinema Workers in New York Join Union Despite Union-Busting Campaign 2024-03-23 [AFL]

NYC Home Attendants Rally At City Hall Demanding End to 24-Hour Workday 2024-03-21 [Harlem World]

A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims − testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women’s fight to remake labor laws 2024-03-20 [The Chronicle]

BARNES & NOBLE WORKERS AT THE UPPER WEST SIDE MANHATTAN STORE VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY TO JOIN THE RWDSU 2024-03-16 [AFL-CIO / CLC]

Union Gives a Close Look at the Historic Amazon Labor Union Win 2024-03-10 [Jacobin]

Head of Transport Workers Union criticizes NYC congestion pricing plan 2024-03-09 [CBS]

Academic Student Workers at The New School Initiate Strike 2024-03-09 [Violin Channel]

Getting food delivered in New York is simple. For the workers who do it, getting paid is not 2024-03-06 [AP]

Dartmouth men's basketball players vote to form a union 2024-03-05 [The New York Times]

Worker-owned co-ops continue to expand in Western N.Y. 2024-03-03 [Spectrum]

Finally, Buffalo Starbucks Is Going to Bargain With Its Unionized Workers 2024-02-29 [Eater]

REI SoHo workers unionized in 2022, but still don’t have a contract. This play tells their story 2024-02-20 [Fast Company]

Contract faculty wrest neutrality from New York University 2024-02-17 [Labor Notes]

Absent Union Representation, NYC Nail Salon Workers Are Organizing Themselves 2024-02-14 [Truthout]

The Battle At Amazon JFK8 For A Workers Rights, A Union & Democracy For more info 2024-02-13 [WW]

Judge orders Starbucks to reinstate high-profile union organizer 2024-02-08 [ABC]

NLRB Says Trader Joe’s Closed E. 14th St. Wine Shop To Quash Union Drive 2024-02-02 [Our Town]

IBT 808 Sec.Treas Chris Silvera on 'confederate' Being Invited By IBT Pres. Sean O'Brien To IBT HQ For more info 2024-01-29 [LVP]

NYC Trader Joe’s Wine Shop may have to reopen due to union-busting complaint 2024-01-29 [PIX11]

Farm worker labor rights on the line in New York 2024-01-26 [UFW]

Journalists at New York Daily News walk off the job in one-day strike action 2024-01-26 [New York Times]

Documentary uncovers the difficult battle to unionize at Amazon 2024-01-23 [The Guardian]

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Look Set to Win a Union 2024-01-20 [Jacobin]

The United Auto Workers Are Unionizing Rooftop Solar 2024-01-11 [Focus]

Exposé into Goodyear Tire bladder cancer cases 2024-01-11 [The Safety Mag]

Transit Riders Say “Thank YOU!” To Workers 2024-01-07 [PCAC]

EmPower Solar lays off 40 percent of workforce; UAW claims retaliation for organizing drive 2024-01-06 [The Guardian]

NYC’s Minimum Wage Jumps to $16 an Hour—But Not for Many Tipped Workers 2024-01-05 [City Limits]

N.Y. farm workers are being denied their rights 2024-01-03 [UFW]

NY rings in the new year with a pay bump for minimum-wage workers 2024-01-02 [NBC]

The Empire State rings in the new year with a pay bump for minimum-wage workers 2024-01-01 [AP]

32BJ building workers and Realty Advisory Board reach tentative contract agreement, narrowly avoid strike 2023-12-30 [BrooklynPaper]

URMC workers union holds vote on tentative contract agreement 2023-12-30 [Rochester First]

Workers at Hex and Co., the 'board game cafe' chain, unionize 2023-12-27 [New York Times]

NYC ambulance workers sound sirens over $15 congestion toll: ‘It’s a slap in the face’ 2023-12-24 [NYPost]

Services Employee International Union votes to go on strike Jan. 1 2023-12-17 [News12]

Some Amazon workers at Queens warehouse walk off the job 2023-12-10 [ABC]

This Union Organizer Is Hoping to Expand Socialists’ Electoral Stronghold in Queens 2023-12-10 [Jacobin]

Amazon broke federal labor law by calling Staten Island union organizers ‘thugs,' interrogating workers 2023-12-03 [CNBC]

Amazon broke federal labor law by calling Staten Island union organizers ‘thugs,’ interrogating workers 2023-12-03 [CNBC]

Labor, Democratic Rights, Zionism & The Attack The UAW 2325 With UAW 2325 Member Mimi Rosenberg For more info 2023-12-01 [LVP]

Elmwood Taco & Subs workers allege union busting 2023-11-22 [The News]

Keep Robotaxis Off Our Streets 2023-11-17 [Teamsters]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Brooklyn Museum Workers Ratify First Union Contract 2023-11-14 [AFL-CIO]

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]