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Waffle House workers begin strike over pay and working conditions, union says 2025-10-14 [WRDW]

Boeing Starts Union ‘Education Sessions’ as Labor Movement Stirs 2024-10-08 [Bloomberg]

Midlands Starbucks workers unionize, joining other SC stores after national hiccups 2024-06-19 [The State]

Newberry Starbucks workers file for union elections, one of 18 in massive day of filing 2024-06-06 [WISTV]

AFL-CIO's president and secretary-treasurer condemn supreme court's disenfranchisement of black voters in South Carolina 2024-05-29 [AFL-CIO]

Labour union asks federal regulators to oversee South Carolina workplace safety program 2023-12-08 [OHS Canada]

Pelham road starbucks workers file petition to leave workers union due to unmet needs For more info 2023-10-19 [Greenville News]

Waffle House worker says she had to go to the ER after working 17-hour shifts 2023-07-17 [Daily Dot]

WAFFLE HOUSE WORKERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ON STRIKE OVER SECURITY ISSUES 2023-07-10 [Black Enterprise]

Workers at this SC Waffle House are on strike. Here’s which one and why 2023-07-09 [The State]

87% of Service Workers in the US South were Injured on the Job Last Year 2023-04-07 [Newsclick]

Union alleges neglect in South Carolina safety inspections 2023-04-06 [OHS Canada]

Dozens of customer service employees gathered in Columbia to protest what they say are unsafe working conditions 2023-04-05 [WLTX]

Union Wins Labor Board Ruling in Port Dispute 2022-12-24 [MBT]

Boeing's switch to ‘smart machine' inspectors draws heat from union 2019-04-21 [Post and Courier]

Union has ‘serious concerns' about ex-SC Gov. Nikki Haley joining Boeing's board 2019-03-04 [Post and Courier]

Letter carriers' annual food drive is May 14 2022-05-07 [Newberry Observer]

Union Vote at Boeing Plant Tests Labor's Sway Under Trump 2017-02-14 [NYTimes]

Lawmakers from both coasts battling over Boeing's North Charleston union vote 2018-10-02 [Post and Courier]

Record financial performance gives Boeing's SC non-union workers a big payout 2019-02-15 [Post and Courier]

Poor People's Campaign leaders honor striking Charleston hospital workers of 1969 2019-03-24 [Post and Courier]

Starbucks unions have reached SC. Could national wave shift organized labor in the state? 2022-06-05 [The State]

US Dept. of Labor recovers $624,000 after restaurants gets accused of shortchanging workers 2022-05-11 [WIS]

Emergency service workers push for mental health leave 2021-07-24 [WLTX]

Retail workers in South Carolina get paid -38.80% [sic] less than other workers, survey shows 2021-04-25 [WBTW]

S.C. worker uses 3D printing to make face shields for healthcare workers 2021-03-31 [WRDW]

SC first responders push for COVID-19 compensation 2021-01-15 [WLTX]

Laid off or fired while quarantined for coronavirus, these SC workers sued 2020-08-17 [Post and Courier]

SC union organization calls for more protections for SC workers, says workers should not be 'offered up' as 'sacrificial lambs for the all mighty dollar' 2020-04-30 [FOX]

Claims that Boeing SC unlawfully fired workers over union support move closer to trial 2020-04-11 [Post and Courier]

South Carolina again has lowest percentage of workers joining labor unions 2020-01-25 [Post and Courier]

Boeing 737 Max crashes put spotlight on manufacturing practices 2019-12-23 [Post and Courier]

Federal labor board overturns Boeing SC union bid 2019-09-10 [Post and Courier]

Union workers protest AT&T during contract negotiations 2019-08-27 [WSPA]

Congress Turns Up Heat on Boeing for Firing SC IAM Members 2019-05-24 [IAM]

Where does SC teacher labor movement go after 10,000 person march? 2019-05-05 [Post and Courier]

'It's because we were union members': Boeing fires workers who organized 2019-05-03 [The Guardian]

All Out SC teacher protest: 10,000 in 'largest gathering of teachers in history of SC' 2019-05-02 [Greenville News]

South Carolina teachers flex their activist muscles after decades of labor losses 2019-04-29 [Post & Courier]

Machinists say Boeing fired workers over union membership 2018-12-23 [The State]

Bernie Sanders accuses Boeing of harassing, firing North Charleston workers 2018-12-20 [Post and Courier]

More legal Mexican farm workers are coming to SC than ever. But few are protecting them 2018-10-19 [Post and Courier]

Labor union claims improper surveillance of Boeing workers in North Charleston 2018-10-17 [Post and Courier]

Underpaid SC workers want cut of $177M surplus. GOP Governor snubbed after saying no 2018-10-16 [The State]

Letter: Boeing workers used their right to vote 2018-08-03 [Post and Courier]

Boeing asks for review of North Charleston union vote, setting up potential landmark ruling 2018-06-29 [Post and Courier]

Boeing won't recognize union win at North Charleston site as it appeals vote 2018-06-19 [Post and Courier]

Union presence could benefit all workers at Boeing North Charleston campus, experts say 2018-06-03 [Post and Courier]

Workers to vote on micro union at Boeing South Carolina plant 2018-05-31 [Reuters]

Boeing technicians in South Carolina to vote on unionization 2018-05-22 [Reuters]

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]