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New WA state bill to support farm worker right to unionize 2026-02-11 [UFW]

Organizing Down the Supply Chain: Logistics Workers Win First Contract 2026-01-29 [Labour Notes]

STOP Terrorizing Somali American Community! Seattle Ride Share Ass. Ed Amed Mumin Speaks Out For more info 2026-01-21 [LVP]

On MLK Day 2026, Minneapolis, Racism, Fascism & The Gen Strike With ILWU 52 Past Pres Gabrial Prawl For more info 2026-01-18 [LVP]

SEIU 503 Members Join Starbucks Workers on the Picket Line in Seattle 2026-01-10 [SEIU]

Yakima Memorial Hospital workers issue 10-day strike warning 2026-01-09 [Apple Valley News]

Mushroom workers take fight to Washington Supreme Court 2026-01-01 [NW Labor Press]

Rotschy fined $184K after excavator bucket crushes worker 2025-12-19 [NW Labor Press]

Why Our Members Put in 650 Hours Canvassing for Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor 2025-11-21 [Labour Notes]

Starbucks union strike on Red Cup Day hits 2 Seattle stores For more info 2025-11-15 [Seattle Times]

Kaiser Permanente health workers in Oregon, SW Washington approve strike 2025-09-20 [Oregon Live]

Workers picket construction sites across Tri-Cities as strike enters 4th day 2025-08-16 [Tri-City Herald]

Cannabis grow workers get union rights 2025-07-16 [NW Labor Press]

Lawsuit claims Washington farm replaced local employees with foreign workers 2025-06-22 [KIRO]

Workers at Seattle’s Most Prestigious Restaurant Group Have Unionized 2025-06-20 [Eater]

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE 2025-06-13 [Labor Notes]

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE 2025-06-13 [Labor Notes]

Negotiations still on for three unions striking against PeaceHealth 2025-06-10 [Salish Current]

1,200 WWU student employees go on strike 2025-05-29 [Cascadia Daily News]

IAM Union Calls for Immediate Release of Wrongfully Detained Member in Washington State 2025-05-21 [IAM]

SEIU celebrates the release of Cliona Ward, union member and caregiver, following nationwide advocacy 2025-05-08 [SEIU]

Teamsters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport authorize strike 2025-05-07 [ARGS]

Washington state workers take the fight to the Governor 2025-04-22 [Labor Notes]

'Fight like hell': Hundreds of postal workers statewide hold rallies against potential cuts within U 2025-03-24 [King 5 Seattle]

Outraged by a coworker’s firing, New Seasons workers strike 2025-02-08 [NW Labor Press]

Costco warehouse workers prepare to strike at end of January 2025-01-29 [People's World]

Transit Workers Demand Safety Fixes as They Mourn Shawn Yim 2025-01-14 [Urbanist]

Unionized Bellingham Starbucks employees shut down stores amid nationwide strike 2024-12-27 [My Bellingham Now]

Seattle Starbucks workers to go on strike 2024-12-21 [FOX]

ALPA Welcomes Selection of Rep. Rick Larsen as T&I Ranking Member 2024-12-18 [ALPA]

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course 2024-12-07 [Register]

Hundreds more SPEEA employees at Boeing receive layoff notices 2024-12-07 [KREM]

Starbucks Ice Skating Parties Illegally Left Out Union Workers 2024-12-04 [Bloomberg]

Boeing machinists hold contract vote that could end their 7-week strike 2024-11-05 [The Hill]

CDC sends help as more WA egg farm workers test positive for bird flu 2024-10-26 [Seattle Times]

Boeing workers to vote on new wage deal that could end strike 2024-10-21 [Reuters]

Seattle hotel workers call out ‘Resort Fee Ripoff’ 2024-10-18 [The Stand]

Boeing strike enters second month as workers rally in Seattle 2024-10-16 [NBC]

Boeing strike enters second month as workers rally in Seattle 2024-10-16 [Reuters]

400 hotel workers walk off the job in Seatac, demanding better conditions 2024-10-13 [KIRO]

Boeing Union Members Vote to Strike 2024-09-14 [NYTimes]

96% of the 30,000 Boeing machinists in the Seattle and Portland areas wanted to strike 2024-09-14 [Quartz]

Why Boeing factory workers are on strike 2024-09-14 [CBS]

Boeing Machinists Strike 2024-09-14 [Labor Notes]

Boeing workers strike after rejecting contract proposal 2024-09-13 [NY Times]

Boeing workers voted 94.6 percent to reject the agreement, and 96 percent in favor of striking 2024-09-13 [The Guardian]

Boeing's Seattle Workers Walk Out in First Strike Since 2008 2024-09-13 [Bloomberg]

Boeing machinists vote to strike after rejecting pay increases of 25% over 4 years 2024-09-12 [Seattle P-I]

Seattle Consular Change After Community Leaders Demand Accountability 2024-08-31 [PCUN]

WSLC meets in Wenatchee 2024-08-28 [NW Labor Press]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-02-1864 The Collar Laundry Union was formed in New York, the first women's union in US history, led by Kate Mullany. Over the next few years the women increase their wages from $2 to $14 a week. [more]

2-02-1917 300 newspaper boys organize to challenge a cut in their wages by a newspaper, the Minneapolis Tribune. [more]

4-02-1924 IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan, patrolling the streets of Greenville, Maine, after the KKK tried to threaten IWW union organisers: “We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it” [more]

4-02-1869 IWW and SPUSA leader Big Bill Haywood is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. [more]

4-02-1919 The General Strike Committee meets in Seattle, and makes preparations for an all-out labour stoppage [more]

5-02-1913 17-year-old Ida Braiman is shot dead by a contractor during the garment workers' strike in Rochester, NY. [more]

6-02-1919 A total of 60,000 of Seattle's population of 315,000 join the general strike on its first day [more]

8-02-1919 Workers in Butte, Montana responded to a dollar per day wage cut by launching a general strike. To prevent disunity, workers formed a Workers and Soldiers Council to conduct the strike. [more]

11-02-1937 The 6 week-long sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Michigan ends as GM agrees to recognize the UAW. [more]

12-02-1968 The Memphis sanitation strike by African-American workers began in protest against mistreatment, discrimination, dangerous working conditions, and the recent deaths of two workers. They held out until April and won. [more]

13-02-1913 82-year-old labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia for supporting a coal miners strike. Convicted in a military court she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Pardoned after serving 85 days. [more]

14-02-1818 Frederick Douglass is born into slavery in Maryland. He will go on to become a titanic figure in the struggle against slavery, and in favour of universal suffrage and women's rights. [more]

14-02-1936 Goodyear workers in Ohio strike. They defy union orders to leave the plant & resist 150 sheriff's deputies. Threatening a general strike if a vigilante army was used, they won after a month. [more]

15-02-1913 A strike of rubber workers in #Akron organised by @_IWW union grew to 3,500 strikers. Earlier that month 300 workers at Firestone walked out and were eventually joined by 20K others but police violence & repression forced them to end it. [more]

18-02-1935 Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were stranded by a wildcat strike of elevator operators in the city. [more]

19-02-1866 The first union in Mississippi was created by African-American washerwomen. [more]

19-02-1986 The Farm Labourers Organizing Committee wins recognition at Campbell's Soup farms after years of struggle [more]

20-02-1919 The Elaine massacre took place in Arkansas. After black farm workers tried to organise for better pay, hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces [more]

23-02-1910 Workers at the soon to be infamous Triangle Shirtwaist factory decided to end their five month long strike. They had won higher wages and reduced hours but failed to get union recognition. [more]

24-02-1939 US Supreme Court ruled sitdown strikes illegal. [more]

24-02-1944 320 men, mostly African-Americans were killed in explosion at the Port Chicago naval base. 50 African-American servicemen who then protested against unsafe conditions were court-martialed and sentenced to 8-15 years hard labour. [more]

27-02-1881 African-American laundresses in Atlanta, Georgia, went on strike and were successful in raising wages and establishing a union. [more]

27-02-1939 Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal. [more]