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Starbucks workers, supporters join national picket for union contract 2025-10-02 [KOSU]

OK state superintendent who ordered schools to teach the Bible resigns to lead anti-teachers-union group 2025-09-27 [NBC]

Okla City Apple store workers win union contract with tech giant 2024-09-07 [OK City Free Press]

Nonprofit foundation fighting starbucks workers union in OKC For more info 2023-10-21 [Oklahoma City Free Press]

OKC starbucks worker files for decertification of union For more info 2023-10-21 [Oklahoma City Free Press]

Starbucks workers seek union representation in midwest city 2023-10-05 [Oklahoma City Free Press]

Lawmakers double pay for poll workers 2023-09-18 [Enid News&Eagle]

This is one of the worst states for workers according to study 2023-09-03 [OK City Free Press]

Starbucks union workers strike over banned Pride decorations 2023-06-26 [KGOU]

An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform 2023-03-01 [Wired]

Housing is unaffordable for OK’s low-wage workers 2023-01-15 [OK Policy]

OKC Apple workers prep for contract talks after union vote win 2022-11-07 [The Free Press]

Starbucks’ Decision to End COVID Protections Endangers Me and Other Baristas 2022-10-29 [Progressive]

Apple store in Oklahoma City becomes second to organize 2022-10-17 [New York Times]

Oklahoma City Apple store becomes second in U.S. to vote to unionize 2022-10-16 [Wash Post]

Apple Workers In Oklahoma City Win Union Election To Join CWA 2022-10-16 [NASDAQ]

Apple workers vote for unionizing second U.S. store 2022-10-15 [Canada.com]

Apple Workers Vote for Union at Oklahoma Store in Second Organizing Win 2022-10-15 [WSJrnl]

GOP Senator Lankford targets NEA's charter 2022-09-26 [OK City Sentinel]

Apple Store unionization movement continues in Oklahoma City; prepared for union-busting tactics 2022-09-02 [9to5Mac]

Latest Lawsuit Over Driver Misclassification Shows The Issue Isn't Going Away 2018-08-03 [Go By Truck]

Starbucks is threatening trans employees' healthcare, union says 2022-06-14 [Vice]

Norman, OK: Local Starbucks employees aim to unionize amid nation-wide efforts 2022-03-21 [OU Daily]

Oklahoma City Public Charter School Plans to Defy Mask Ban 2021-08-16 [USNews]

Union Pushing Keystone XL Faces Racial Discrimination Suit 2021-01-20 [NPR]

We Talked To 18 Teachers In Oklahoma Calling It Quits (HBO) 2018-06-08 [VICE News]

Oklahoma Teachers End Nearly Two-Week Walkout That Shut Schools 2018-04-13 [USNews]

Oklahoma Teachers End Walkout After Winning Raises and Additional Funding 2018-04-13 [NYTimes]

The Teachers Strike Is At a Crossroads 2018-04-12 [Jacobin]

'Our feet are gross': Oklahoma teachers on gruelling 110-mile march for better funding 2018-04-09 [The Guardian]

Oklahoma teachers ride wave of support in march to capital: *It's for the kids* 2018-04-07 [Guardian]

'We've Had Enough': Tens of Thousands Oklahoma Teachers Strike for the 2nd Day 2018-04-04 [TeleSUR]

Scenes from a red-state rebellion 2018-04-03 [Vox]

Teachers are walking out in multiple states. Blame GOP economics of govt starvation 2018-04-03 [Wash Post]

Oklahoma teachers prepare to walk out as furor over school funding spreads across the country 2018-04-02 [Washington Post]

Facing low pay and big classes, Oklahoma teachers threaten to walk out 2018-03-31 [Washington Post]

Why Oklahoma teachers will walk out Monday 2018-03-30 [PBS]

Oklahoma teachers may be next to engage in a statewide walkout 2018-03-20 [NY Times]

Teachers plan for strike following big union win in West Virginia 2018-03-10 [Salon]

OK teachers planning statewide strike 2018-03-09 [MSN]

OK teachers to lawmakers: Raise pay by April 1 or we shut schools 2018-03-08 [Reuters]

5 Workers Are Missing After An Explosion At Drilling Rig 2018-01-23 [NPR]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]