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St. John’s Faculty, Students ‘Rally After The University Ends Union Recognition’ 2026-02-28 [WNY Labor Today]

Largest nurses strike in New York City history ends as holdout workers ratify contract 2026-02-23 [ABC]

Last group of striking NYC nurses reach tentative deal 2026-02-20 [New York Times]

Why Nurses Are Still on Strike at New York Presbyterian 2026-02-18 [Labour Notes]

2 Strikes in 3 Years: N.Y.C. Nurses Awaken as a Major Labor Voice 2026-02-17 [The Times]

Workers strike at manufacturing plant in Wayne County 2026-02-17 [WHAM]

Union workers strike at Garlock Sealing Technologies in Palmyra 2026-02-16 [Rochester Biz Jrnl]

Nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai to start returning to work Saturday morning 2026-02-15 [ABC]

At NYC’s Richest Hospital, 4,200 Nurses Are Still on Strike 2026-02-15 [Jacobin]

Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike 2026-02-14 [TRNN]

Nurse Strike’s Focus Moves to Manhattan’s Richest Hospital Complex as Contracts Settle Elsewhere 2026-02-14 [Labour Notes]

Screening of “Partners” Shares Inside Story of the Starbucks Union Fight 2026-02-14 [Yellowscene]

10,000 New York State Nurses Association Members Win Strike in NYC; 5,000 More Press On, Entering Week Five 2026-02-11 [CWA]

New York City nurses reach tentative contract at Montefiore and Mt. Sinai; nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia still out 2026-02-09 [New York Times]

Nurses’ Union, Mount Sinai and Montefiore Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike 2026-02-09 [The City]

You Can Support New York City Nurses On Strike By Donating To The NYSNA Hardship Fund 2026-02-07 [WNY Labor Today]

NYC nurses strike reaches day 24 as union criticizes hospital proposals 2026-02-05 [AOL]

Striking New York Nurses Brave Subzero Cold 2026-02-05 [Labour Notes]

Donate $50 or more to the NYSNA Strike Hardship Fund, get a red hat! 2026-02-05 [NYSNA]

Help Us Build Our New Worker Training Center! 2026-01-31 [Amazon Labor Union]

NYC Zohran Mamdani Announces Worker Protections For Delivery Workers 2026-01-31 [Forbes]

Uber Eats and other delivery apps to fork over millions of dollars to dissed NYC workers 2026-01-31 [NYPost]

Striking New York City nurses hold day of action to protest ICE 2026-01-30 [ABC]

Negotiations continue as NYC nurses strike heads toward fourth week 2026-01-30 [Spectrum]

Global agreement with H&M paves way for workers’ landmark contract in New York 2026-01-30 [UNI Global Union]

Nurses strike enters third week as bargaining continues 2026-01-28 [Spectrum]

NYC home care workers eagerly await Mamdani’s expansion of child care 2026-01-26 [Gothamist]

NYC nurses clear hurdle with some hospitals on health benefits, union says 2026-01-26 [Spectrum]

Jacobi Hospital nurses march to show support for NYSNA union strike 2026-01-24 [News12]

Mamdani joined nurses on the picket line, rather than shaming and scolding them as past mayors have done 2026-01-24 [New York Times]

Nurses strike over patient care, demand hospitals bar ICE 2026-01-23 [La Lucha]

Staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Vote to Unionize 2026-01-23 [UAW]

NYSNA Nurses Citywide to Head Back to the Bargaining Table on Thursday, Jan. 22 2026-01-22 [NYS Nurses Assn]

Commissioner of Consumer and Worker Protection to Visit Strike Line and Meet with Unlawfully Terminated NYSNA Nurses 2026-01-23 [NYS Nurses Assn]

New York City nurses strike enters second week as Mamdani, Sanders lend support 2026-01-23 [The Guardian]

Patients, families join striking NYC nurses for candlelight vigil 2026-01-23 [CBS]

ALAA Statement on CAMBA, Inc’s Retaliatory Elimination of IT Department on Strike 2026-01-23 [ALAA]

Bernie Sanders and Mayor Mamdani Join Picket Line as NYC Nurses’ Strike Drags On 2026-01-21 [Our Town]

How the push to unionize at Breads Bakery became a debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2026-01-21 [Forward]

Buffalo mayor to ban city workers, police from helping ICE with ‘civil immigration enforcement’ 2026-01-19 [WIVB]

JFK airport workers scramble for last remaining MetroCards to get AirTrain discount 2026-01-19 [Gothamist]

Rikers officers, captains warn solitary ban puts workers at risk 2026-01-18 [The Chief]

Delivery workers hear promise of ‘new era’ as Mamdani targets app companies 2026-01-18 [The Chief]

Labor reporter talks nurses' strike, union issues in city 2026-01-18 [NY1]

Two sides talk on Day 5 of nurses’ strike, but end is not yet in sight 2026-01-17 [PIX 11]

Nurses describe escalating tension as NYC strike continues 2026-01-17 [Politico]

NYC Labor Stands with Striking NYSNA Nurses! 2026-01-17 [NYC CLC]

NYC nurses restart contract talks with another major hospital system on 5th day of strike 2026-01-16 [Wash Post]

Nurses Describe Fear on the Job as Bitter Strike Enters Fifth Day 2026-01-17 [The Times]

Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize 2026-01-17 [The Times]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]