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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]

Smithfield workers agree to ‘historic' new labor contract including an immediate $2-an-hour wage increase 2022-03-11 [Daily Press]

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

Dem Party Lawmaker Files Bill to Repeal Virginia's RTW Law 2018-12-31 [Republican Standard]

With Unanimous Vote, Alexandria City Council Expands City Workers' Rights 2021-04-18 [Zebra]

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]

Target Workers Are Joining the Union Wave 2022-05-10 [The New Republic]

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

in Stuarts Draft, VA: Hershey Workers to Vote on Unionizing at Plant Described as 'Prison-Like' 2022-02-23 [Food Manufacturing]

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

Working 72 Days In A Row - Workers Expose 'Hershey Prison' 2022-02-22 [Mountain]

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

How public-sector workers are building power in Virginia 2022-02-18 [EPI]

Union says it reached new tentative deal with Newport News Shipbuilding 2022-01-30 [13NewsNow]

Graduate Student Workers win clearer terms of employment 2021-09-15 [CBS]

Why Are Bakery Workers Who Make Oreos, Ritz And Chips Ahoy On Strike? 2021-09-07 [Forbes]

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]

Charlottesville Area Transit workers looking to unionize 2021-07-30 [CBS]

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]

Volvo plant workers reject new labor contract 2021-06-08 [FleetOwner]

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]

UAW Members at Volvo Truck in Dublin VA Strike For Fair Wages, Benefits, Health and Safety 2021-04-17 [UAW]

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

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-09-1946 26,000 sugar workers represented by the dockers union, start a 79-day strike affecting 33 of Hawaii's 34 plantations. [more]

1-09-1907 United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther born. “There is a direct relationship between breadbox & ballot box.” [more]

1-09-1881 William Z Foster born. Labour organizer, leader in Steel Strike of 1919. [more]

2-09-1921 Owners of the West Virginia mines bombard strikers from aircraft by throwing home-made devices filled with nails and shards of metal. Fortunately, they either missed their targets or did not explode. [more]

4-09-1894 12,000 garment workers in New York go on strike to denounce conditions in the workshops. [more]

4-09-1934 400,000 textile workers start largest strike at the time through most of the US East Coast over wage cuts and speed-ups. [more]

5-09-1917 The Palmer Raids: federal agents seize records & arrest 100s involved with the IWW, including Big Bill Haywood. [more]

9-09-1890 Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America created at a convention in Topeka, Kansas. [more]

10-09-1897 Nineteen unarmed immigrant miners are shot dead by a sheriff's posse in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. [more]

14-09-1970 The UAW calls a 9-week strike at General Motors in Detroit, secures a lowering of the retirement age from 65 to 56 as well as an increase in wages based on a sliding scale linked to inflation. [more]

16-09-2004 The Farm Labor Organizing Committee wins a collective agreement with Mt. Olive Pickle Company on farms in North Carolina after a five-year struggle. [more]

17-09-2011 Occupy Wall Street movement is launched with a march in New York City. [more]

17-09-1900 100,000 anthracite miners on strike in Pennsylvania. They are paid by weight but employers estimate that a ton can weigh between 2,400 and 4,000 pounds, not 2,000.. [more]

19-09-1981 More than 400,000 unionists march in Solidarity Day demo in Washington, DC, for sacked striking air traffic controllers. [more]

22-09-1919 A steel strike, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across US. [more]

22-09-2006 Domino's Pizza workers in Pensacola, Florida form the first union of pizza delivery drivers. [more]

23-09-1886 A coalition of Knights of Labor and trade unionists in Chicago launch the United Labor party, calling for an 8-hour day, government ownership of telegraph and telephone companies, and monetary and land reform. [more]

26-09-1903 The Old 97, a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, derails near Danville, Va., killing engineer Joseph “Steve” Broady and ten other railroad and postal workers. Many believe Broady had been ordered to speed to make up for lost tim [more]

27-09-1875 Textile strikers in Fall River, Massachusetts, demand bread for their malnourished children. [more]

30-09-1962 Cesar Chavez, with Dolores Huerta, co-founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later was to become the United Farm Workers of America [more]