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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]

The RNC Message Touts ‘Greatest Economy.' But Wisconsin's Struggling Workers Aren't Seeing It 2020-08-28 [Up North News]

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]

One employer's answer to the hospitality hiring crunch: Union? Yes! 2021-08-08 [The Examiner]

Months after union workers won at Colectivo, they're still on hold 2021-12-13 [WI Examiner]

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]

Sen. Bernie Sanders visits UAW workers in Racine County as strike continues 2022-06-19 [CBS]

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

Pabst Theater Group Workers Win Union Election 2022-06-02 [Urban Milwaukee]

UAW strike at CNH Industrial continues after workers reject 'final offer' 2022-05-31 [Successful Farming]

Raven quality assurance workers go union 2022-05-25 [UNI]

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

Case factory worker strike continues as union members fight for higher wages, COVID-19 protections 2022-05-07 [NPR]

WI prison workers pay raise; Evers OKs temporary bump 2022-03-12 [FOX]

WI Gov Evers vetoes GOP bill that would have allowed teens to work late 2022-02-05 [Tulsa World]

Communications of America union members protest unfair working conditions 2022-01-30 [WAOW]

Call of Duty workers say they plan to unionize For more info 2022-01-22 [Axios]

Activision Blizzard employees form first of its kind Game Workers Alliance Union 2022-01-22 [Guardian]

Workers at an Activision game studio say they are forming a union 2022-01-22 [NYTimes]

Colectivo Workers Take Action for Bargaining Rights 2022-01-15 [WORT]

Our thoughts are with Waukesha 2021-11-25 [Wisconsin Nurses Association]

Local 344 Organizing Victory At DHL 2021-11-20 [Teamsters]

Wisconsin Senate approves bill extending workday for teens 2021-10-22 [NBC]

Colectivo Coffee Union Victory Could Open The Door For Future Restaurant Employees 2021-08-25 [WPR]

Colectivo Coffee workers vote to unionize 2021-08-24 [WMTV]

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]