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The Mystery of What Happened to Plutonium Scandal Whistleblower Karen Silkwood 2026-05-21 [Distractify]

Community backs striking workers at Oklahoma City Starbucks 2025-12-21 [The Free Press]

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]

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]

'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 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

3-06-1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in New York City. [more]

3-06-2016 A federal judge ruled that women's soccer players could not go on strike, despite their collective bargaining agreement (which included a no-strike clause) having expired. The women were in dispute over pay discrimination. [more]

4-06-1912 Massachusetts becomes the first US state to establish a minimum wage [more]

4-06-2012 When National Football League referees failed to agree to a new contract, which included big pension cuts, the NFL locked them out and began hiring scabs to replace them. Bosses came up with a revised offer which was agreed on 26 September. [more]

6-06-1933 10,000 auto workers strike in Lansing, Michigan and paralyze the city for a month following the arrest of 9 of them, including the union president's wife forced to leave 3 children alone at home. [more]

8-06-1917 Disaster at the Spectator mine in Butte, Montana: 168 dead. [more]

9-06-1865 Helen Marot, campaigner for working women, is born. [more]

10-06-1963 Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women. [more]

11-06-1913 Police shoot at maritime workers on strike at United Fruit Co. in New Orleans, killing one. [more]

12-06-1904 Defying AFL's Samuel Gompers, 50,000 members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen walk off their jobs. [more]

16-06-1918 Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene Debs makes his famous speech against capitalism in Canton, OH, which will land him in jail. [more]

17-06-1903 In Philadelphia, "Mother Jones" organizes a demonstration of children who had been mutilated in textile factories to draw public attention to their fate. [more]

19-06-1912 The eight-hour day is adopted for Federal employees [more]

20-06-1947 President Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, but his veto is overturned by Congress three days later. [more]

20-06-1893 The American Railway Union is founded with Eugène Debs at its head. [more]

21-06-1877 Hanging in Pennsylvania of 10 miners accused of being "Molly Maguires" activists sentenced to death on the basis of an investigation carried out by a private detectives agency sponsored by a private company. [more]

23-06-1999 Workers at Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in North Carolina vote for union recognition after a 25 year struggle [more]

27-06-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World, later popularly known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago with the aim of uniting all workers in One Big Union [more]

29-06-1894 Over 125,000 workers on two dozen railroads have joined the boycott of Pullman cars [more]

30-06-1918 Socialist anf labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio [more]