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Public Workers Make Headway on Bargaining Rights 2026-04-14 [Labour Notes]

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]

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]