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ICE arrests of farm workers shake up Manitowoc County, a dairy powerhouse 2025-09-27 [Milwaukee Jrnl Sentinel]

UAW Local 95 sets up food pantry for striking workers 2025-08-15 [Channel 3000]

Bill Would Formally Designate ‘Gig Workers’ As Independent Contractors 2025-06-20 [Urban Milwaukee]

Madison’s unionized Starbucks workers walk out over new dress code, contract disputes 2025-06-07 [Daily Cardinal]

Anodyne Coffee workers unanimously vote in favor of a union 2025-06-06 [The Sentinel]

As Trump takes the Act 10 playbook national, Wisconsin workers have lessons to share 2025-03-31 [Tone Madison]

UAW Local 291 members at Cummins walk out on strike in Oshkosh, Wisconsin 2025-03-27 [UAW]

Statement from CWA on unfair labour practice charge against Activiison publishing subsidiary Raven Software 2025-03-13 [CWA]

‘No grad student makes a living wage in Madison’: Inside UW graduate worker union’s fight for better pay 2025-03-06 [The Badger-Herald]

New book argues Racine’s labor movement history is a ‘blueprint for worker solidarity’ 2025-01-15 [WPR]

Looking back at the bitter Patrick Cudahy strike of 1987-89 2025-01-02 [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Labor’s Future After Wisconsin Anti-Union Law Struck Down 2024-12-05 [Governing]

Wisconsin judge strikes down Act 10, decade-old law that stripped collective bargaining from all public employees except cops and firefighters 2024-12-03 [New York Times]

Unions score major win with court ruling restoring collective bargaining rights 2024-12-03 [PBS]

Unions score a major win in Wisconsin with a court ruling restoring collective bargaining rights 2024-12-03 [AP News]

Reaction to Ruling Restoring Wisconsin’s Union Rights 2024-12-03 [Civic Media]

Amazon delivery workers declared employees after Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling 2024-08-15 [Milwaukee Independent]

Harley-Davidson kicks American workers in the teeth by moving some production to Thailand 2024-08-15 [ Milwaukee Jrnl Sentinel]

Wisconsin judge to weigh lawsuit brought by public workers over collective bargaining restrictions 2024-05-29 [PBS]

Unions Heading to Court To Try To Overturn Wisconsin’s Ban on Collective Bargaining 2024-05-23 [The Sun]

Marquette University workers push to unionize 2024-04-12 [WPR]

Corn Milling Company Officials Sentenced to Federal Prison for Their Role in Deadly Explosion that Killed Five Workers 2024-02-17 [Office of Public Affairs / DOJ]

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin workers seek to unionize 2024-01-05 [WPR]

Experis Game Solutions Workers Win Vote to Unionize with the IAM 2023-12-03 [IAM]

Experis QA workers for Forza Motorsport, Starfield vote to unionize 2023-12-03 [GamesBeat]

Starbucks threatened to deny abortion travel benefits for workers seeking to unionize, judge says For more info 2023-10-30 [CBS ]

Starbucks charged with threatening to withhold benefits if workers unionize For more info 2023-10-21 [SHRM]

UAW workers speak out as strike continues 2023-09-27 [Spectrum News]

Union members, city leaders share thoughts on state of labor during Labor Fest 2023 2023-09-05 [WTMJ]

Unionized TruStage workers hold rally for bargaining agreement 2023-07-30 [WKOW]

Casa Tequila restaurant in Milwaukee area fails to pay workers, violates child labor laws 2023-07-25 [WKOW]

Workers on strike at Leinenkugel’s Brewery 2023-07-11 [WEAU]

Starbucks on State Street votes in favor of unionizatio 2023-06-19 [The Daily Cardinal]

Workers at State Street Starbucks win unionization election 2023-06-02 [UW-Madison Badger Herald]

Milwaukee DPW workers chased and shot at in paintball attack 2023-05-20 [WISN 12]

Unions pushing for safer workplaces on Workers Memorial Day For more info 2023-04-29 [CBS]

Details of contract between union workers and CNH released For more info 2023-01-25 [KCRG]

UAW Case Holland Workers On Strike For Justice! UAW 180 President Yasin Mahdi Speaks Out For more info 2022-12-13 [LVP]

Red Cross workers announce strike ahead of holiday blood drive For more info 2022-12-09 [Channel 3000]

NLRB finds that Activision withheld raises from union activists 2022-10-04 [Washington Post]

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka: On November 6 we're going to have one hell of a party — a Scott Walker retirement party 2018-09-26 [Jrnl Sentinel]

Scott Walker broke the unions. Now he says he's the ‘education governor' 2018-08-01 [Politico]

UAW Workers' Strike at CNH Industrial Enters a Second Week 2022-05-14 [Industry Week]

Appeals Court Rules that Town's Ban on Union's Inflatable Rat Did Not Violate the First Amendment 2019-03-01 [JDSupra]

One in 14 migrant workers at Seneca green bean plant in WI died of COVID-19. Here's what happened 2021-05-20 [JSOnline]

Epic workers aren't just mad, they're organizing 2020-08-06 [Tone Madison]

As health care workers protest vaccine mandates, experts say receiving unemployment isn't certain 2021-08-14 [WBAY]

Wisconsin union members speak on recent increases in strikes and labor organizing 2022-06-21 [WUWM]

'A wasted trip': United Auto Workers and Case New Holland walk away after one day of negotiations 2022-06-16 [The Hawk Eye]

'Call of Duty' workers at Activision Blizzard vote to form union 2022-05-24 [Saltwire]

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]