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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]

Volvo Workers in Virginia Vote Down Bad Contract by 90 Percent—Again 2021-06-08 [Labor Notes]

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]

Virginia Target workers join labor union movement: Here's what both sides are saying 2022-05-14 [Fox Business]

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 Enacts New Paid Sick Leave Law for Home Health Workers 2021-04-09 [Littler]

Public Sector Workers Are Organizing to Make Their New Bargaining Rights a Reality 2021-03-27 [Labour Notes]

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]

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Employment Law Reform: Virginia Enacts Sweeping Legislation Changing the Employment Law Landscape of the Commonwealth 2020-07-18 [JDSupra]

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]

Virginia Will Focus On Misclassification Of Workers As Independent Contractors 2019-12-21 [Lexology]

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

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]