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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]

The Oklahoma Teachers' Strike Is a Mutiny Against Austerity 2018-04-07 [Common Dreams]

US DOL recovers $348K in overtime for workers at 7 Oklahoma City Fuzzy's Taco Shops 2022-04-21 [US DOL]

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]

First Starbucks in OK unionizes 2022-06-02 [KOCO]

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]

OK teacher walkout continues 2018-04-07 [AFL-CIO]

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

Oklahoma Teamsters are refusing to cross teacher picket lines to work on renovations on the capitol. Everything is shutting down 2018-04-07 [@InternetEh]

'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]

The War on Teachers Comes to Oklahoma 2018-04-02 [Education Week]

Oklahoma teachers work up to 6 jobs. Now they are fed up and ready to walk out 2018-03-31 [CNN]

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

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]