logo
Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
USA         
Utah
Act NOW!

Top stories - Utah

Postal workers union push for voting by mail in Utah campaign 2026-05-31 [FOX]

UT Postal Workers Roll Out APWU Vote-by-Mail Ad Campaign in Salt Lake City 2026-05-29 [APWU]

Postal workers are fed up with attacks on mail-in ballots. Here’s how they’re pushing back 2026-05-29 [The Tribune]

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

3-06-1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in New York City. [more]

3-06-2016 A federal judge ruled that women's soccer players could not go on strike, despite their collective bargaining agreement (which included a no-strike clause) having expired. The women were in dispute over pay discrimination. [more]

4-06-1912 Massachusetts becomes the first US state to establish a minimum wage [more]

4-06-2012 When National Football League referees failed to agree to a new contract, which included big pension cuts, the NFL locked them out and began hiring scabs to replace them. Bosses came up with a revised offer which was agreed on 26 September. [more]

6-06-1933 10,000 auto workers strike in Lansing, Michigan and paralyze the city for a month following the arrest of 9 of them, including the union president's wife forced to leave 3 children alone at home. [more]

8-06-1917 Disaster at the Spectator mine in Butte, Montana: 168 dead. [more]

9-06-1865 Helen Marot, campaigner for working women, is born. [more]

10-06-1963 Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women. [more]

11-06-1913 Police shoot at maritime workers on strike at United Fruit Co. in New Orleans, killing one. [more]

12-06-1904 Defying AFL's Samuel Gompers, 50,000 members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen walk off their jobs. [more]

16-06-1918 Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene Debs makes his famous speech against capitalism in Canton, OH, which will land him in jail. [more]

17-06-1903 In Philadelphia, "Mother Jones" organizes a demonstration of children who had been mutilated in textile factories to draw public attention to their fate. [more]

19-06-1912 The eight-hour day is adopted for Federal employees [more]

20-06-1947 President Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, but his veto is overturned by Congress three days later. [more]

20-06-1893 The American Railway Union is founded with Eugène Debs at its head. [more]

21-06-1877 Hanging in Pennsylvania of 10 miners accused of being "Molly Maguires" activists sentenced to death on the basis of an investigation carried out by a private detectives agency sponsored by a private company. [more]

23-06-1999 Workers at Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in North Carolina vote for union recognition after a 25 year struggle [more]

27-06-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World, later popularly known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago with the aim of uniting all workers in One Big Union [more]

29-06-1894 Over 125,000 workers on two dozen railroads have joined the boycott of Pullman cars [more]

30-06-1918 Socialist anf labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio [more]