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FedEx Pilots Mark Four Years of Protracted Contract Negotiations 2025-05-07 [ALPA]

United Campus Workers-CWA Members Fight Against Cuts and for Higher Wages 2025-04-18 [CWA]

Factory Not Responsible After 6 Workers Died During Hurricane Helene Flooding, Tenn. State Agency Reports 2025-04-06 [People]

Memphis man recounts teenage days aiding worker’s strike during MLK’s last visit 2025-01-21 [NC Newsline]

Medical workers in Oak Ridge rally for better pay, staffing as contract talks continue 2024-10-29 [WATE]

Workers forced to stay at factory drowned during Hurricane Helene — while CEO snuck out and survived, scathing lawsuit claims 2024-10-16 [NYPost]

Vanderbilt grad students look for increased pay, better benefits with United Auto Workers 2024-10-10 [Lookout]

After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen 2024-10-07 [In These Times]

Starbucks workers at Nashville location vote to unionize 2024-09-22 [WSMV]

UAW President Shawn Fain and Hundreds of Workers Kick Off Volkswagen Contract Talks 2024-09-14 [UAW]

Why aren't workers protected? 2024-09-08 [Reddit]

A Thousand Tennessee Autoworkers Just Joined the UAW 2024-09-07 [Jacobin]

Workers at General Motors joint venture battery plant in Tennessee unionize and will get pay raise 2024-09-05 [The Gazette]

Hundreds of Nashville rideshare drivers vote to unionize, go on strike ahead of Labor Day 2024-09-01 [News From the States]

On Labor Day, celebrate pro-worker wins in Tennessee such as UAW Volkswagen union vote 2024-09-01 [The Tennessean]

Nashville Uber and Lyft drivers belonging to the Tennessee Drivers Union warn of 'ruined vacations' as they vote to strike 2024-08-30 [The Guardian]

Supreme Court backs Starbucks in fight over ‘Memphis 7’ unionizing effort 2024-06-14 [CNN]

Formerly Anti-Union VW Worker Explains Why The Hollywood Strikes Changed His Mind 2024-04-26 [Jalopnik]

Volkswagen workers defy decades of union failures by voted to join the UAW 2024-04-23 [NPR]

HMeyerson: The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War 2024-04-22 [Am Prospect]

Historic union win at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant 2024-04-22 [IndustriALL]

Tennessee Volkswagen employees vote to join United Auto Workers union 2024-04-21 [VOA]

In historic breakthrough, Volkswagan workers become the first southern autowokers to win their union 2024-04-20 [UAW]

AFL-CIO president on results of UAW vote at Volkswagans Tennessee Plant 2024-04-20 [AFL-CIO]

UAW wins big in historic union vote at Volkswagen Tennessee factory 2024-04-20 [Reuters]

Volkswagen workers vote yes to unionizing, igniting UAW's push to organize the South 2024-04-20 [NPR]

Volkswagen workers vote to unionize in major win for organised labour 2024-04-20 [BBC]

UAW ahead as first ballots counted in union vote at Volkswagen's Tennessee factory 2024-04-20 [Reuters]

Why this vote at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant is historic for the South 2024-04-18 [NPR]

Les travailleurs de VW Chattanooga prêts pour l'élection syndicale 2024-04-03 [IndustriALL]

Workers at VW Chattanooga ready to vote in union election 2024-04-03 [IndustriALL]

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]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-09-1946 26,000 sugar workers represented by the dockers union, start a 79-day strike affecting 33 of Hawaii's 34 plantations. [more]

1-09-1907 United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther born. “There is a direct relationship between breadbox & ballot box.” [more]

1-09-1881 William Z Foster born. Labour organizer, leader in Steel Strike of 1919. [more]

2-09-1921 Owners of the West Virginia mines bombard strikers from aircraft by throwing home-made devices filled with nails and shards of metal. Fortunately, they either missed their targets or did not explode. [more]

4-09-1894 12,000 garment workers in New York go on strike to denounce conditions in the workshops. [more]

4-09-1934 400,000 textile workers start largest strike at the time through most of the US East Coast over wage cuts and speed-ups. [more]

5-09-1917 The Palmer Raids: federal agents seize records & arrest 100s involved with the IWW, including Big Bill Haywood. [more]

9-09-1890 Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America created at a convention in Topeka, Kansas. [more]

10-09-1897 Nineteen unarmed immigrant miners are shot dead by a sheriff's posse in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. [more]

14-09-1970 The UAW calls a 9-week strike at General Motors in Detroit, secures a lowering of the retirement age from 65 to 56 as well as an increase in wages based on a sliding scale linked to inflation. [more]

16-09-2004 The Farm Labor Organizing Committee wins a collective agreement with Mt. Olive Pickle Company on farms in North Carolina after a five-year struggle. [more]

17-09-2011 Occupy Wall Street movement is launched with a march in New York City. [more]

17-09-1900 100,000 anthracite miners on strike in Pennsylvania. They are paid by weight but employers estimate that a ton can weigh between 2,400 and 4,000 pounds, not 2,000.. [more]

19-09-1981 More than 400,000 unionists march in Solidarity Day demo in Washington, DC, for sacked striking air traffic controllers. [more]

22-09-1919 A steel strike, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across US. [more]

22-09-2006 Domino's Pizza workers in Pensacola, Florida form the first union of pizza delivery drivers. [more]

23-09-1886 A coalition of Knights of Labor and trade unionists in Chicago launch the United Labor party, calling for an 8-hour day, government ownership of telegraph and telephone companies, and monetary and land reform. [more]

26-09-1903 The Old 97, a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, derails near Danville, Va., killing engineer Joseph “Steve” Broady and ten other railroad and postal workers. Many believe Broady had been ordered to speed to make up for lost tim [more]

27-09-1875 Textile strikers in Fall River, Massachusetts, demand bread for their malnourished children. [more]

30-09-1962 Cesar Chavez, with Dolores Huerta, co-founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later was to become the United Farm Workers of America [more]