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Some U faculty unionize in face of administrative changes 2026-01-18 [The Chronicle]

Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters, and police 2025-12-13 [AP]

Utah’s oldest gay bar plans to reopen soon, after recognizing employees’ union 2025-11-27 [The Tribune]

Oldest LGBTQ+ bar closes amid workers’ union push: ‘We feel extremely disposable’ 2025-11-09 [The Guardian]

Sundance Institute’s workers form a union — and use Robert Redford’s words to make their case 2025-10-28 [The Tribune]

‘Hold the line’: Labor groups want voters, not GOP lawmakers, to decide fate of bargaining ban 2025-08-15 [Salt Lake Tribune]

Protect Utah Workers coalition far exceeds signature gathering goal 2025-04-18 [Deseret News]

Salt Lake City packed as anti-Trump protest, General Conference happen simultaneously 2025-04-06 [KMYU]

Utah bars public workers from joining unions, collective bargaining 2025-02-16 [New York Times]

Inside Voices: Utah union bill ‘will result in significant harm’ 2025-02-08 [The Tribune]

Salt Lake City approves Utah’s first library union amidst controversy on Capitol Hill 2025-02-06 [ABC]

House passes bill to stop collective bargaining for public unions 2025-01-28 [The News-Dispatch]

Republicans take aim at teachers unions amid political clash over education 2025-01-24 [The Star]

‘No better than working at 7-Eleven’: Unions oppose bill to end collective bargaining for Utah public employees 2025-01-22 [The Register]

Park City ski patrol union secures average of $4 hourly wage bump for 200 workers. Could it be a precedent? 2025-01-15 [KUNC]

“We had no choice but to play our final and most powerful card, knowing that our strike would cause massive disruption.” 2025-01-13 [Storm Skiing]

Utah ski patrollers win in strike against biggest U.S. resort 2025-01-13 [EMS1]

Park City Strike Ends With Increase in Wages for Ski Patrollers 2025-01-10 [New York Times]

Mayor calls on Vail Resorts to end strike as Park City businesses share concerns about impacts 2025-01-07 [Fox 13]

Ski patrollers strike at Park City Mountain resort 2025-01-04 [New York Times]

Ski patrol strike for higher wages snarls the country’s largest ski resort 2025-01-02 [Fast Company]

Students stand up: Logan Labor Union 2024-10-07 [The Statesman]

New nationwide study finds Utah ranks fourth in union growth since 2013 2024-08-28 [The Daily]

For the first time since it was founded in 1870, The Salt Lake Tribune has a union 2024-07-24 [Utah Business]

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/archaeologists-unionizing-utah-wages-teamsters 2024-04-08 [Jacobin]

Bill requiring Utah public employee unions to recertify every 5 years is on the table 2024-01-29 [KUER]

Utah's union membership rates among nation's lowest 2024-01-28 [Axios]

Salt Lake City Public Library workers seek to form first library union in Utah 2023-05-05 [AFSCME]

VA employees, nationally and in Utah, are asking Congress for a wage bump 2023-03-29 [KUER]

Utah farmers hoped for a streamlined system for hiring migrant workers. It didn't happen. 2021-02-26 [Salt Lake City Tribune]

Utah announces $2,000 bonus for childcare workers 2022-07-14 [UT Biz]

Big Cartel Workers Union Becomes the First Tech Union in a 'Right-to-Work' State 2021-12-14 [OPEIU]

St. George Regional Hospital healthcare workers voice concerns with growing COVID surge 2021-08-22 [The Spectrum]

More than 1,100 Utah health care workers have contracted COVID-19 2020-08-02 [Salt Lake Tribune]

Salt Lake City teachers walk out to demand more funding, support for students 2020-02-29 [Salt Lake Trib]

SLC teachers plan walkout for increased funding 2020-02-21 [SLTrib]

Utah nurse reaches $500,000 settlement in dispute over her arrest for blocking cop from drawing blood from patient 2017-11-05 [The Salt Lake Tribune]

Thousands gather to reclaim Chinese railroad workers' place in history 2019-05-11 [NBC]

Civil rights champion Dolores Huerta discusses importance of local activism at WSU event 2018-09-26 [Standard-Examiner]

ICE raid has chilling effect on Moab workers, police chief says 2018-08-27 [Salt Lake Tribune]

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]