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VOLKSWAGEN WORKERS IN CHATTANOOGA WILL VOTE IN THEIR UNION ELECTION ON APRIL 17–19 2024-03-25 [UAW]

President Biden: Tennessee Volkswagen workers 'should have a voice' amid union election filing 2024-03-19 [Tennessean]

US Volkswagen workers file for union election 2024-03-19 [IndustriALL]

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Have Filed for a Union Election 2024-03-19 [Jacobin]

Volkswagen workers file for union election to join United Auto Workers 2024-03-19 [The Guardian]

Volkswagen Workers File for Union Election to Join UAW 2024-03-19 [UAW]

Volkswagen workers in TN vote to join United Auto Workers union 2024-03-18 [UPI]

VW Workers Seek Union Vote at Tennessee Plant for Third Time; UAW Says It Has 70 Percent Cards 2024-03-18 [New York Times]

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/feb/25/uaw-president-comes-to-chattanooga-as-union-files/ 2024-02-25 [The Times-Free Press]

Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them 2024-02-17 [Am Prospect]

Volkswagen on factory unionization efforts: 'Neutral doesn't mean silent' 2024-02-16 [Axios]

UAW says majority of workers at Tennessee VW plant signed union cards 2024-02-08 [The Hill]

UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins 2024-02-06 [Bloomberg]

2,000 VW employees sign union authorization cards 2024-01-20 [3 News]

UAW President To Meet With VW Workers, Hits Stellantis For Temp Layoffs 2024-01-17 [Forbes]

High Court to Hear Starbucks Case Over Fired Union Workers 2024-01-13 [Bloomberg]

‘We don’t have a say’: workers join push to unionize flagship Volkswagen plant 2024-01-11 [The Guardian]

Whether it takes 3 or 20 votes, VW Chattanooga needs a union 2023-12-17 [Chattanooga Times Free Press]

Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards 2023-12-10 [Labour Notes]

UAW says over 1,000 workers at VW plant in Tennessee have signed cards seeking union representation 2023-12-08 [barchart]

Starbucks asks justices to unify labor injunction standards For more info 2023-10-05 [Law360]

UAW strike: Spring Hill GM autoworkers awaiting call to join walk outs 2023-09-29 [The Tennessean]

Gen Z workers start new trend: 'rage applying' 2023-06-23 [NewsChannel5 WTVF Nashville]

Workers forced to clean up TVA coal ash spill without personal protection settle with company 2023-05-24 [KY Lantern]

WATCH: Memphis Sanitation Workers reach 5-Year contract deal with pay raises For more info 2023-04-26 [FOX 13]

Memphis sanitation workers sign 5-year contract with salary increase 2023-04-23 [WREG]

'It's becoming crippling:' The number of school counselors, social workers, dropping in TN For more info 2023-04-15 [ABC]

AFL-CIO statement on the expulsion of representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson from the Tenessee House of Re[resentatives 2023-04-12 [AFL-CIO]

Memphis Starbucks union member: Workers remain scared but want to fight for their rights For more info 2023-03-29 [CNBC]

Dozens of workers reject union at big Nissan TN plant 2023-03-17 [Tennessean]

National Nurses United statement on Tyre Nicholls death and police practices 2023-02-01 [National Nurses United]

Comtrak settles misclassification lawsuit with drivers 2022-12-21 [Land Line]

Alcoa Starbucks workers strike amid growing support for unions nationally 2022-09-09 [WBIR]

Starbucks loses appeal, will rehire 7 fired Memphis workers 2022-09-08 [AP]

Federal judge says Starbucks must reinstate fired workers 2022-08-18 [AP]

Workers upset over abrupt closing of Nashville restaurant 2022-08-30 [WKRN]

Starbucks ordered to reinstate US workers fired amid union campaign 2022-08-20 [Guardian]

Starbucks must reinstate fired workers, federal judge rules 2022-08-19 [AP]

Starbucks ordered to reinstate fired Memphis staff 2022-08-19 [BBC]

Federal judge orders Starbucks to rehire seven Memphis baristas fired after talking to the media about labor organizing 2022-08-18 [Washington Post]

TN AFL-CIO Hosting “Pass the PRO Act” Rally at Senator Hagerty and Senator Blackburn's Nashville Offices 2021-07-19 [TN Tribune]

Starbucks Workers Unionize Store Where ‘Memphis Seven' Were Fired 2022-06-08 [Verve Times]

Fired Memphis Starbucks Worker: “I Know That I Was Retaliated Against” 2022-02-10 [Eater]

Kroger, grocery union calling for government to recognize workers as temporary ‘first responders' 2020-04-16 [Wate]

Trash piling on streets, sanitation workers' union calls city council for help 2022-07-09 [Action News 5]

This Labor Day, Remember That Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Was for Workers' Rights 2017-09-04 [Common Dreams]

Tennessee Approves 19 Percent Decrease in Workers' Comp Rates 2018-11-09 [Insurance Jrnl]

Gig workers will soon lose unemployment eligibility and experts say it's a mistake 2021-05-29 [NewsChannel 5 Nashville]

How Memphis Gave Up on Dr. King's Dream 2018-03-30 [NYTimes]

Lawmakers Call for House to Investigate XPO After Memphis Workers' Miscarriages 2018-12-05 [NYTimes]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]