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Supermajority of Volkswagen Workers in Chattanooga Vote to Authorize Strike for Job Security and a Fair Contract 2025-10-30 [UAW]

Volkswagen workers in Tennessee vote to authorize strike 2025-10-30 [Reuters]

VOLKSWAGEN WORKERS IN CHATTANOOGA TO VOTE ON STRIKE AUTHORIZATION 2025-10-24 [UAW]

City employees protest outside Memphis City Hall over unmet labor agreements 2025-10-22 [The Local]

Volkswagen Workers Gear Up for a Potential Strike 2025-10-19 [Jacobin]

UAW says it has received ‘overwhelming’ response to strike pledge cards in Chattanooga 2025-09-28 [The Times Free Press]

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]

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]