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'We want to get paid': Durham sanitation workers ask City Council for higher wages 2024-03-19 [WRAL]

In 1959, NC banned public workers from bargaining contracts — what it means for teachers today 2024-03-04 [WUNC]

Durham School workers claim victory, push for more at emergency meeting 2024-01-28 [WRAL]

Workers call for better conditions to labor in the oppressive heat 2023-07-30 [ABC]

Asheville Food & Beverage United to form a new labor union 2023-07-18 [WFAE]

AFGE Wins Union Election as National Park Service Workers Reject Efforts to Decertify Their Union 2023-07-17 [AFGE]

Duke grad student workers cleared for union elections For more info 2023-07-13 [WRAL]

N.C. RED CROSS WORKERS UNANIMOUSLY VOTE TO JOIN TEAMSTERS 2023-04-11 [Teamsters]

Duke University graduate student workers push for recognition of union 2023-03-01 [Pulse]

Future imperfect: North Carolina's labor groups try to move beyond sordid past 2023-02-24 [The News and Record]

Duke University Graduate Students May Soon Join the Higher Ed Unionization Wave 2023-02-18 [Jacobin]

The Secret Plan to Sabotage Teachers and Make Money 2022-10-11 [Diane Ravitch]

‘Duke Works Because We Do': Duke Graduate Students Union calls on Duke to provide more support amid pandemic 2021-05-05 [The Chronicle]

A ‘Liberal Sweatshop' Is Quashing Its Workers' Efforts To Unionize 2019-08-26 [Huff Post]

Here are the ‘oppressive' working conditions at the farms that supply Whole Foods, report shows 2019-10-11 [MarketWatch]

Durham McDonald's workers strike after COVID-19 case. ‘We can't survive on $7.25.' 2020-12-11 [News&Observer]

‘Not me. Us.': Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders calls for action at Rock Hill rally 2019-09-22 [WBTV]

The State Is Trying to Destroy the State's Only Farmworkers Union 2017-11-17 [ACLU]

A Raise To $11 An Hour? That's Still Not Enough, Union Says At Airport Protests 2020-02-15 [Forbes]

Socialist-themed Vegan Meat Company's Anti-Union Speeches Are Being Scrubbed from the Internet 2020-08-29 [Vice]

Solar's rise lifted these blue-collar workers. Now they're worried about Trump 2017-06-06 [Washington Poat]

Costs per Workers' Compensation Claim Have Remained Steady since 2009, WCRI Study Indicates 2017-05-24 [WCRI]

Deep South Baristas Strike Starbucks 2022-05-29 [Labour Notes]

Starbucks store in Boone reportedly first in NC to unionize 2022-05-01 [WCNC]

HCA's Mission Hospital penalized $30,000 for failing to protect nurses and other health care workers from Covid-19 2022-03-24 [National Nurses United]

Thirty-One Days Inside the First North Carolina Starbucks to Organize for a Union 2022-03-17 [Indy Week]

Worker lost arm from injury at U.S. mail facility in NC Labor Dept says 2022-03-15 [CBS]

NC seeing more workers unionize For more info 2022-03-11 [CBS]

Raises for in-home care workers included in state budget turn out to be just a recommendation 2022-03-05 [NC Policy Watch]

Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting 2022-02-19 [Wash Post]

'I wouldn't bring my dog in here':Mission Hospital nurses protest poor condition due to staff shortages 2021-10-21 [Citizen-Times]

US Department of Labor recovers $33K in back wages for five workers after investigation revealed Apex company violated federal wage laws 2021-12-28 [U. S. DOL]

Judge blocks NC law provision aimed at farm workers' union 2021-09-17 [WRAL]

Healthcare workers in Cleveland Co. carry signs, chant in protest of COVID-19 vaccination mandate 2021-08-09 [WBTV]

Mission Hospital RN's announce tentative pact with HCA, nurses to vote on proposed settlement today and Friday 2021-07-02 [National Nurses United]

Health care workers feel strain of caring for others during pandemic 2021-05-28 [WSOC-TV]

Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers, Struggle For A Union and The Fight Against Systemic Racism With Saladin Muhammed For more info 2021-02-15 [LVP]

Farm Labor Organizing Committee sees hope after class-action win in North Carolina 2021-02-08 [Cleveland Scene]

McDonald's workers strike over low wages, lack of COVID-19 protections 2020-12-19 [Facing South]

SEIU 521 Child Welfare Worker Wren Bradley On Defending The 2020 Vote In North Carolina For more info 2020-11-03 [LVP]

Caravan of educators, parents, cafeteria workers protest in front of Republican US senator's office 2020-08-09 [WRAL]

Durham essential workers paint 'Black Lives Matter' at downtown intersection 2020-07-20 [WRAL]

Environment Revealed: Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants in US being kept quiet 2020-07-05 [The Guardian]

NC to Test All Nursing Home Residents, Workers 2020-07-02 [Insurance Jrnl]

NC nurses stand on the brink of a historic labor victory 2020-06-10 [Facing South]

Unions, advocates call for worker protections at meat processing plants 2020-05-09 [WRAL]

FLAG program provides meals for frontline workers 2020-04-27 [ABC]

Workers, advocates push lawmakers to increase minimum wage to $15 in NC 2020-02-16 [WWAY]

Duke grad workers demand a fair contract 2020-02-10 [Chronicle]

Livingstone College in Salisbury late on paying cafeteria workers 2019-12-31 [WSOC]

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]