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Paid sick leave bill passes Virginia House of Delegates 2026-02-17 [VA Mercury]

Richmond workers protest ICE as DHS proposes new detention facility in Hanover 2026-01-24 [VA Dogwood]

CWA Campus Workers in Virginia Oppose Attacks on Higher Education 2026-01-09 [CWA D9]

UVA workers town hall meeting calls for better pay for university employees 2025-09-15 [29News]

Fired Virginia VA worker keeping options open after judge’s order to reinstate federal workers: 'In big letters, it said ‘TERMINATED’ in the subject line. I thought it was a joke. I thought we got hacked' 2025-03-16 [CBS]

New Group Of Alexandria Workers Take Step Toward Collective Bargaining 2024-07-30 [Patch]

Arborists In Virginia Vote to Join IAM, Become First-Ever Residential Tree Care Workers to Unionize in U.S. 2024-07-19 [IAM]

Justice for the Workers at Warrior Met Coal 2024-06-23 [UMWA]

Arlington schools approves first teachers union contracts in 47 years 2024-06-21 [Washington Post]

Big Union Win in Virginia Schools where Bargaining Suddenly Legal 2024-06-17 [Labour Notes]

Big Union Win in Virginia Schools where Bargaining Suddenly Legal 2024-06-14 [Labor Notes]

Collective bargaining rights are spreading across Virginia 2024-05-25 [IAFF]

ATU Local 689 gets tentative agreement with Fairfax Connector, bringing a likely end to two-week strike 2024-03-06 [Washington Post]

REPORT: Alliance Mobile in Virginia Hired a Union-Buster, But Workers Won 2024-02-28 [LaborLab]

Costco’s surprising response to workers’ union win: It’s not you, it’s us 2024-01-05 [CNN]

Norfolk Costco management 'disappointed' after workers’ union vote 2024-01-05 [NewsNation]

Norfolk Costco Workers Vote to Join Teamsters Union 2024-01-03 [Retail Touch Points]

Costco workers at VA store unionize 2023-12-24 [RetailDive]

AMAZON MISCLASSIFIED DRIVER, MUST PAY UNEMPLOYMENT TAXES ON ALL SIMILAR WORKERS, VIRGINIA COURT RULES 2023-09-30 [SIA]

VA governor amends bill ending subminimum wage for disabled workers 2023-04-06 [ABC]

'Patchwork’ of ordinances makes public-sector organizing a maze 2023-01-17 [Fauquier Times]

Transit Strikers Fight Privatized Race to the Bottom 2023-01-15 [Labour Notes]

Vallejo, Richmond charter school workers form rare union with IWW 2022-07-28 [VallejoSun]

Could Democratic General Assembly repeal Va.'s right-to-work laws? 2020-01-29 [VA Biz]

A strike in Virginia will determine the future of the area's public transit 2019-12-09 [Wash Post]

Virginia's rising minimum wage: A bittersweet change for workers and small businesses 2021-06-30 [WAVY]

Roanoke Starbucks workers unanimously vote to form union 2022-07-01 [WFXR]

Why Retiring Hershey's Workers Are Trying To Establish A Union 2022-02-23 [Tasting Table]

Some Hershey's Employees Want to Unionize, Say Workplace Not So Sweet For more info 2022-02-19 [Newsweek]

Commentary: Labor, the redheaded stepchild of the new Virginia 2021-03-03 [Strikewave]

Unionized Kroger Workers Protest 2021-08-04 [WVTF]

Military barbers strike at Fort Lee, calling for higher wages 2021-08-03 [ABC]

Volvo Trucks North America and UAW agree on six-year contract, suspending Dublin strike For more info 2021-07-16 [ABC]

State program would incentivize new workers with up to $1,000 2021-06-12 [VA Biz]

Protest by cake: Special deliveries to Sen. Mark R. Warner urge him to back the Pro Act 2021-05-07 [WaPo]

Volvo workers go on strike; IRS increases meal deduction 2021-04-21 [Overdrive]

Pulaski County auto workers at Volvo truck plant remain on strike 2021-04-20 [WDBJ]

Virginia board adopts final pandemic-long COVID workplace rules: First in U.S. 2021-02-01 [Pilot]

Virginia makes its COVID-19 workplace safety regulations permanent 2021-01-28 [VA Mercury]

Virginia's healthcare workers start receiving vaccinations 2020-12-16 [Times Union]

Local union calls for more safety measures, hazard pay for GLTC bus drivers 2020-08-27 [WDBJ]

Gov. Northam signs new laws to support Virginia workers 2020-04-13 [NBC]

$15 minimum wage, paid sick days hang in balance as Democrats debate labor priorities 2020-02-18 [VA Mercury]

Virginia Senate committee advances bill to allow local collective bargaining 2020-02-06 [Ctr Square]

Virginia is a great place for business, but not workers 2020-02-03 [NBC]

Sysco Warehouse Workers In Virginia Choose Teamsters Local 822 2019-12-21 [Teamsters]

Fairfax Connector workers go on strike Thursday 2019-12-09 [Wash Post]

Workers left in the lurch after 2 Zaxby's fast-food restaurants in Roanoke Valley close abruptly 2019-08-04 [Roanoke Times]

Virginia teachers plan a one-day strike to highlight low pay, poor schools 2019-01-28 [Washington Post]

Democratic Socialist lawmaker wants to repeal Virginia RTW law 2019-01-19 [WHSV]

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]