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From East Palestine To Working Class Power With Steelworker & Labor Musician Mike Stout For more info 2024-04-06 [LVP]

East Palestine Norfolk Southern Derailment & Rail Labor For more info 2024-03-29 [LVP]

Carnegie Mellon academic workers meet to improve conditions, raise wages 2024-03-25 [Tartan]

‘If I don’t talk no one’s going to know’: Stories of pain from East Palestine move coalition members to action 2024-03-25 [Pittsburgh Union Progress]

‘Solidarity is a verb’: Pittsburgh IBEW local rallies to side of striking newspaper workers 2024-03-25 [IBEW]

‘They come out and do great’: Roundtable discussion addresses barriers, seeks solutions to help women enter the workforce 2024-03-16 [Union Progress]

A Philly Sex Shop Fired Its Workers When They Started a Union 2024-02-13 [Jacobin]

East Palestine Wreck & Lessons With Striking Pitttsburgh Post Gazette Reporter Steve Mellon For more info 2024-02-03 [LVP]

Union workers laid off, allege unfair labor practices 2024-01-19 [Latrobe Bulletin]

Susquehanna Valley Starbucks joins the workers union 2024-01-06 [NBC]

Philly workers got organized in 2023. Look back on this year’s strikes, walkouts, and union campaigns. 2023-12-30 [The Inquirer]

Workers’ Comp: What Are My Rights After a Work Injury? 2023-12-23 [AFSCME Council 13]

Thousands of Starbucks workers walk off the job in 'Red Cup Rebellion,' union says 2023-11-16 [CBS]

SEPTA union workers ratify 1-year contract with wage, pension increases 2023-11-12 [CBS]

USW ‘Women of Steel’ lend support at Pitt staff, grad student union rally 2023-11-05 [The Times]

32BJ SEIU cleaners in Philadelphia secure historic post-pandemic contract 2023-10-12 [UNI]

RAs at University of Pennsylvania vote to organize with OPEIU 2023-09-29 [New York Times]

Pittsburgh Union Progress: interning at a strike newspaper taught me about labor rights and journalism 2023-08-23 [Teen Vogue]

Philly Dunkin’ workers want to unionize 2023-08-05 [Phila Inquirer]

Pennsylvania state employee unions begin voting on proposed contracts 2023-07-30 [WPSU]

Striking Pittsburgh news workers picnic and press on 2023-07-22 [Pittsburgh union Progress]

Union Workers take Strike to Trucking Business 2023-07-22 [Erie News Now]

PA locomotive-manufacturing workers are striking for greener jobs 2023-07-18 [Grist]

York County child welfare and aging workers authorize strike. Staffing is a major concern For more info 2023-07-17 [York Daily Record]

US workers strike for green jobs 2023-07-10 [IndustriALL]

Union workers rally at Wabtec headquarters during labor strike For more info 2023-07-07 [WTAE]

UPS Contract Struggle At Crossroads, Union Democracy & Workers Power With Philly IBT623 Pres Richard Hooker For more info 2023-07-04 [LVP]

The Steelworkers share a solidarity feast to fuel long-striking news workers 2023-06-30 [Pittsburgh Union Progress]

Wabtec Workers Walk Out for Grievance Strikes and Green Locomotives 2023-06-28 [Labour Notes]

Highmark lays off more than 100 workers 2023-06-23 [KDKA CBS News Pittsburgh]

Scaffold Firm Workers Win Nod for $4.5 Million Wage Lawsuit Deal 2023-06-16 [Bloomberg]

We must correct the misclassification of workers in Pennsylvania 2023-05-22 [Penn Live]

Coalition of unions files an antitrust complaint UPMC healthcare system, accusing it of using market power to suppress wages and worsen working conditions 2023-05-18 [New York Times]

So you want to go on strike? Philadelphia’s union council is teaching workers how 2023-05-15 [The Inquirer]

The Battle At UPS Against Part Time Work, Teamsters & Amazon With Philly IBT 623 Pres Richard Hooker For more info 2023-04-30 [LVP]

Hundreds of Penn graduate student workers rally for union recognition at campus demonstration 2023-04-27 [Daily Pennsylvanian]

Govs. Josh Shapiro and Phil Murphy announce interstate partnership to protect workers from misclassification 2023-04-15 [Phila Inquirer]

IBEW Local 98 recruiting female electricians 2023-02-24 [The Voice]

PA Democrats Aim at Cracking Down on ‘Worker Misclassification’ 2023-02-12 [WDIY]

Mars Wrigley fined after workers fall into vat of chocolate 2023-02-12 [AP]

Temple University cuts tuition and health benefits for striking graduate students 2023-02-11 [NPR]

Temple University responds to striking student workers by cutting benefits, sending them a bill 2023-02-11 [FOX]

The first newspaper strike of the digital age stretches into a new year 2023-01-26 [The Nieman Lab]

PHL int'l airport food service union workers on strike For more info 2023-01-15 [CBS]

Starbucks United Workers wear their support — and their wit 2023-01-15 [Pttsbrg Union Progress]

Starbucks workers rally in Market Square 2022-12-11 [CBS]

‘No Contract, No Matisse’: Philadelphia Museum of Art workers win first contract after strike 2022-11-17 [Labor Notes]

Philadelphia Home Depot workers vote against unionizing, as organizers file union-busting complaint 2022-11-06 [WHYY]

During Philadelphia Museum of Art Strike, Jewish Union Members Helped Lead Charge 2022-10-20 [Jewish Exponent]

As strike by mailing, print, distribution, and advertising departments at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters 12th day, newsroom staff strike in support - but a substantial minority of reporters scab 2022-10-19 [Pittsburgh City Paper]

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]