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DoorDash, Uber Eats deprived workers of $550M in tips in NYC, Mamdani administration alleges 2026-01-14 [NYPost]

Statement of Solidarity: Strike by 15,000 NYSNA Members in New York City 2026-01-14 [CWA]

New York City Nurses Have Launched Their Biggest-Ever Strike 2026-01-14 [Jacobin]

Fifteen Thousand New York City Nurses Strike 2026-01-14 [Labour Notes]

Zohran Mamdani stands with 15,000 striking NYC nurses on picket line 2026-01-13 [MEAWW News]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will join NYC 15,000 nurses on strike 2026-01-12 [PIX11]

Hospitals Force Nearly 15,000 NYSNA Nurses Out on Largest Nurse Strike in New York City History 2026-01-12 [NYSNA]

Nearly 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike at Major New York City Hospitals 2026-01-12 [The Times]

NYC nurses' union, citing faltering contract talks, announce Monday strike 2026-01-12 [Gothamist]

Nearly 16,000 NYC nurses to strike on Monday unless hospitals agree to workplace violence protections, health benefits and safe staffing 2026-01-11 [New York State Nurses Association]

Nurses strike in NYC looms as major hospitals, union face midnight deadline to reach deal to 2026-01-11 [CBS]

'They're ready for us to walk': Nurses at top NYC hospitals prep for historic strike 2026-01-11 [Politico]

Union members vote to strike against Parker Lord in Erie 2026-01-11 [YourErie]

Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes 2026-01-10 [The Guardian]

NYSNA Strike Notice ‘Rescinded At Some’ New York Hospitals, But 16,000 Nurses ‘Still Eye’ January 12th Strike - Union To Hold Daily Press Briefing Today Ahead Of Monday Deadline 2026-01-09 [WNY Labor Today]

Employees of Tel Aviv bakery spinoff in NYC call for Jewish Israeli owners to cut Israeli ties 2026-01-09 [The Post]

The New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council’s 2025 Year-In-Review 2026-01-07 [WNY Labor Today]

New York Nurses’ Union Threatens Strike over Safety, Wages 2026-01-05 [WorkersCompensation.com]

Last acts: Outgoing Mayor Adams vetoes 19 bills protecting street vendors, workers, and affordable housing 2026-01-02 [Politics NY]

Some sanitation workers are working 12 hour shifts as New York City works to salt and plow 2025-12-27 [AccuWeather]

Kickstarter's Labor Triumph: Striking a Balance in Tech 2025-12-27 [Open Tools]

Mamdani Appoints Pro-Labor Lawyer To Run Worker Protection Agency 2025-12-24 [Streets Blog NYC]

The 2005 New York City Transit Strike: A Lasting Scar 2025-12-21 [Jacobin]

Amazon Workers at DBK1 in Queens Become Latest to Join Teamsters 2025-12-13 [NYC CLC]

Walk the Line with Striking CAMBA IT Workers! 2025-12-10 [NYC CLC, AFL-CIO]

Amazon Workers at DBK1 in Queens Become Latest to Join Teamsters 2025-12-09 [Teamsters]

Two-Dozen New Yorker Staffers Crash Netflix Doc Screening to Protest “Union-Busting” at Condé 2025-12-05 [The Hollywood Reporter]

Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark NYC Labor Law Settlement 2025-12-02 [New York Times]

Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses 2025-12-02 [Gothamist]

IT Workers at CAMBA, Inc. are (STILL) On Strike - Join the Picket Line! 2025-11-23 [NYC CLC, AFL-CIO]

LCLAA Responds to DHS’s Proposed Public Charge Rule and Its Impact on Immigrant Communities For more info 2025-11-21 [LCLAA]

Metropolitan Museum Of Art Staff Petitions The NLRB For A Union Vote 2025-11-20 [WNY Labor Today]

IT Workers at CAMBA, Inc. On Strike 2025-11-15 [NYC CLC, AFL-CIO]

Judge Declines to Pause New Health Insurance Plan for City Workers 2025-11-09 [The City]

Zohran Mamdani: New York's working class elects a movement mayor 2025-11-06 [Labor Notes]

NYC Workers' Bill of Rights 2025-10-26 [nyc.gov/dcwp]

State Attorney General James Delivers $1.4 Million To New York City Construction Workers ‘Whose Rights Were Violated’ 2025-10-26 [WNY Labor Today]

Broadway musicians reach tentative contract deal 2025-10-23 [New York Times]

State rules Town of Tonawanda Police Club engaged in 'strike,' OKs loss of union dues 2025-10-22 [The News]

Broadway actors reach contract deal, but Broadway musicians still negotiating 2025-10-19 [New York Times]

Agreement reached to avert Broadway actors' strike, union says 2025-10-19 [Reuters]

Broadway enters an anxious time as labour action threatens to roil theatres 2025-10-16 [CTV]

Broadway musicians join actors as latest union to authorize strike action amid contract negations 2025-10-14 [amNY]

Broadway musicians authorize strike if union negotiations fail 2025-10-14 [CBS]

Story of the Week: Is Broadway Going on Strike? 2025-10-12 [Theatre Mania]

Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo 2025-10-10 [The News]

Broadway actors prepare to strike, union says 2025-10-02 [Reuters]

Broadway actors prepping for strike over stalled negotiations 2025-10-01 [The Guardian]

Postal Workers Under Threat from Increasing Number of Attacks 2025-09-28 [Workers Compensation]

Kickstarter United-OPEIU 153 Workers Authorize Strike Demanding Four-Day Workweek and Minimum Salary 2025-09-27 [OPEIU 153]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-01-1966 From 8:02 a.m., a public transport strike spread across New York. After 12 days, the strikers will get a 15% wage increase and other benefits. [more]

2-01-1920 Thousands of US labor activists are arrested in the 'Palmer Raids' during the first Red Scare. [more]

3-01-1917 Trial of labour organizer Tom Mooney begins in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing. He was framed & serves 22 years. [more]

4-01-1965 Start of victorious 28-day strike by 8000 New York City social workers over better conditions for welfare recipients. [more]

4-01-1966 Transport Workers Union of America leader Mike Quill arrested for violating an anti-strike court injunction in 4-day old 35000-member strike. [more]

6-01-1916 8,000 workers strike the Youngstown steel mills. The next day, they are joined by their families. The guards fired bullets and tear gas canisters at the crowd. 3 strikers die and 25 are injured. [more]

7-01-1920 Five elected members of the New York state assembly belonging to the Socialist Party are refused their seats. [more]

7-01-1939 Tom Mooney of the IWW, after 22 years in prison, is found not guilty of murder. [more]

7-01-1892 100 dead and 150 injured in the explosion at No. 11 mine near Krebs, Oklahoma, when an untrained new hire handles dynamite. [more]

8-01-1811 A slave revolt takes place on the Louisiana sugar plantations. 300 to 500 slaves march on New Orleans, burning the fields in the process. After 2 days, the military crushed the protest. [more]

9-01-1939 1,700 tenant farm families are blocking the Missouri highway after being evicted from their homes so landowners do not have to share government aid with them. [more]

10-01-1860 Collapse of a Pemberton factory in Lawrence, Massachussetts. 900 workers, mostly Irish, trapped in the rubble. More than 100 dead, more injured. [more]

11-01-1912 The 'Bread and Roses' strike began in Lynn Massachusetts. The strike was begun and led by mainly immigrant women. [more]

11-01-1937 Police beat and arrest UAW members during the great sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan [more]

13-01-1874 Mounted police from the NYPD violently attack a demonstration of unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park. [more]

14-01-2003 General Electric decides to transfer $ 400 / year from the employer's share of health insurance contributions to each employee. 14,000 of them go on strike for 2 days in protest. [more]

15-01-1929 Birth of civil rights activist and labor movement supporter Martin Luther King, Jr [more]

17-01-1915 The song 'Solidarity Forever' by Ralph Chaplin is first sung, on a hunger march through Chicago organised by Lucy Parsons. [more]

19-01-1915 20 strikers in Roosevelt, New Jersey, are killed when security guards open fire at an agricultural chemicals factory. They had stopped a train to look for scabs. [more]

19-01-1920 In Hawaii 3,000 members of the Philippine Federation of Labour strike at Ohao plantations. Joined later by members of the Japanese Federation of Labour, their number rose to 8,300. [more]

19-01-1973 In Yuba City, California, a labour contractor, Juan V. Corona, was found guilty of the murder of 25 migrant farm workers between 1970 and 1971. [more]

19-01-2000 Charleston, SC. 600 police officers disperse a demonstration of dockers whose collective agreement is called into question. 5 of them will be arrested on pretexts; the start of the campaign for the liberation of the Charleston 5. [more]

22-01-1969 Black workers at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit march on the autoworkers' union with a list of grievances. The workers had formed ELRUM - the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement - and they called a strike the next day. [more]

23-01-1913 Joe Hill's song 'Mr. Block', extolling the virtues of industrial unionism, is first published in the IWW's newpaper. [more]

27-01-1850 Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, is born. [more]

29-01-1834 Federal troops are used to break a strike for the first time in America, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal [more]

31-01-1938 12,000 pecan shellers, most of them Hispanic women, strike for higher wages and civil rights in San Antonio, Texas. [more]

31-01-1919 The Collar Laundry Union was formed in New York, the first women's union in US history, led by Kate Mullany. Over the next few years the women increase their wages from $2 to $14 a week. [more]