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Forcing the Boss to Bargain—Even When They Don't Have To 2026-02-17 [Labour Notes]

Thousands of state workers might need to find new doctors, NC officials fear 2025-09-27 [WRAL]

Greenville residents take part in nationwide ‘Workers over Billionaires’ protest 2025-09-02 [WITN]

Raleigh Sanitation workers call for better working conditions 2025-07-31 [WRAL]

Amazon labor organizers challenge union election loss, alleging employer coercion 2025-05-10 [Newsline]

Garner, North Caroline Amazonian Organizing Drive Faces Police and Massive Union Busting For more info 2025-02-24 [LVP]

Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse 2025-02-16 [NPR]

Amazon North Carolina workers reject union, handing retailer win in labor fight 2025-02-16 [Reuters]

Amazon workers at Garner warehouse overwhelmingly vote against unionization 2025-02-16 [WRAL]

Amazon workers in North Carolina vote against joining union 2025-02-16 [AP]

Nelson Johnson, Labor Leader Wounded in the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, Dies at 81 2025-02-16 [New York Times]

Amazon warehouse workers reject union bid in North Carolina 2025-02-16 [Bloomberg]

Amazon Faces Union Vote at North Carolina Warehouse 2025-02-12 [Inc. / Reuters]

Amazon workers in Garner rally for union 2025-02-09 [ABC]

‘Fighting Goliath’: Amazon workers to hold union election at North Carolina warehouse 2025-01-23 [The Guardian]

NC Amazon workers to hold union election following NLRB approval 2025-01-14 [Chronicle]

Amazon Workers File for Union Election at Giant RDU1 Facility in Garner 2025-01-02 [Durham Dispatch]

Workers at two more NC Starbucks vote to unionize, including another in Triangle 2024-12-30 [MSN]

Workers at two more NC Starbucks vote to unionize, including another in Triangle 2024-12-29 [News&Observer]

In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight 2024-12-06 [Labour Notes]

Charlotte airport workers strike as busy Thanksgiving travel week begins 2024-11-26 [WYFF / AP]

Nurse vollunteers deployed to Asheville to support Hurricane Helene recovery 2024-11-13 [National Nurses United]

North Carolina RN's celebrate Josh Stein election win 2024-11-06 [National Nurses United]

Man accused of threatening FEMA workers in western North Carolina speaks out 2024-10-16 [FOX]

Amazon Union Effort in North Carolina Is Latest Attempt to Organize the South 2024-09-30 [truthout]

Migrant farm worker deaths show cost of the 'American Dream' For more info 2024-09-02 [BBC]

North Carolina AT&T workers share why they're striking 2024-08-22 [Blue RidgePR]

How Workers Are Revolutionizing the South 2024-05-27 [Counterpoint]

United Auto Workers reaches deal with Daimler Truck, averting potential strike of more than 7,000 workers 2024-05-01 [CBS news]

UAW workers file four ULPs against Daimler Truck on eve of potential strike 2024-04-26 [The Commercial Carrier]

7,000 UAW members at Daimler Truck to strike on April 26 if contract is not reached 2024-04-26 [New York Times]

'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]

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]

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]

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]

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]