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Louisiana New Orleans nurses prepare for three-day strike for nurse retention starting November 11 2025-11-07 [National Nurses United]

Louisiana Tensions flare at Baton Rouge bus agency as ex-driver raises sexual harassment allegations 2025-10-15 [The Advocate]

Louisiana New Orleans nurses prepare for two-day strike against management retaliation 2025-07-11 [National Nurses United]

Louisiana ‘The system itself is the problem’: Hundreds rally in New Orleans against ICE raids as part of national SEIU protests 2025-07-02 [NOLA]

Louisiana Hundreds protest Louisiana ICE facilities as a union targets 'detention alley' 2025-07-01 [The Advocate]

Louisiana Baton Rouge bus worker strike begins, will go on 'as long as it takes,' union says 2025-03-03 [The Advocate]

Louisiana The Super Bowl Is in New Orleans This Week—So Is a Major Strike 2025-02-05 [In These Times]

Louisiana DOL recovers $844K in back wages, damages for 158 workers illegally deprived of overtime wages by Louisiana home care providers 2025-01-17 [DOL]

Louisiana Starbucks workers in Baton Rouge join nationwide strike 2024-12-24 [WAFB]

Louisiana More local school bus workers join union 2024-12-10 [WAFB]

Louisiana Caddo Parish School Board wants to give teachers and workers a stipend 2024-08-04 [KTBS]

Louisiana Fifth Circuit appeals court sides with Angola’s Farm Line workers 2024-07-15 [The Lens NOLA]

Louisiana Tulane University faculty votes to form the school’s first union 2024-06-19 [WWL]

Louisiana Standing strong, fighting for worker freedoms in LA 2024-04-06 [AFSCME]

Louisiana 'It feels empowering:' Louisiana Starbucks workers join union 2024-03-31 [The Acadiana Advocate]

Louisiana The Retail Workers Demanding More 2024-03-08 [Mother Jones]

Louisiana Vessel owner pleads guilty in plot to smuggle workers, drugs from Honduras to Louisiana 2023-12-10 [WHTM]

Louisiana Threat or not? Elon Musk gets new hearing on tweet about Tesla workers’ stock amid UAW union effort 2023-07-23 [KRQE]

Louisiana Louisiana facilities laying off hundreds of workers in July 2023-07-10 [Lafayette Daily Advertiser]

VIDEO Louisiana City workers win right to unionize in New Orleans For more info 2023-06-24 [WDSU]

Louisiana LA unemployed workers could see benefits cut in half 2023-04-29 [Greater Baton Rouge Biz Report]

Louisiana ‘You’re a slave’: Inside Louisiana’s forced prison labor and a failed overhaul attempt 2023-01-01 [The Post]

Louisiana Tulane nurses condemn Louisiana attorney-general for holding crucial hearing without New Orleans community 2022-12-03 [National Nurses United]

Louisiana Dollar store workers in the South have a labor movement. Just don't call it a union 2022-09-04 [NPR]

Louisiana LA sanitation workers strike over unfair conditions 2021-11-05 [WDSU]

VIDEO Louisiana New Orleans ATU 1560 Pres Valerie Jefferson Fired By RTA For Defending Worker and Human Rights For more info 2021-09-25 [LVP]

Louisiana Rescuers continue search for missing workers from capsized boat in Gulf 2021-04-17 [KRQE]

Louisiana All essential workers in Louisiana eligible for COVID-19 vaccine starting March 22 2021-03-19 [KNOE]

VIDEO Louisiana New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike For Better Wages 2021-01-12 [KET]

Louisiana Louisiana business advocates hope to avoid strict crackdown on employee misclassification 2021-01-08 [Center Square]

Louisiana 'Censorship and union-busting': CATS employee lawsuit says they were fired for criticizing management 2021-01-02 [Advocate]

Louisiana 'Save Us!' Unemployed tourism and convention workers plead for help at an ‘Empty Event' 2020-10-22 [NOLA]

Louisiana Unemployed hospitality workers plead for local help as federal relief is blocked 2020-10-22 [WLTV]

Louisiana Former New Orleans airport labor union president admits embezzling $15,000 2020-10-01 [Times-Picayune]

VIDEO Louisiana New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike & Solidarity From Seattle and Tacoma For more info 2020-09-12 [LVP]

Louisiana 'They're being treated as disposable;' New Orleans sanitation workers continue strike for living wage, hazard pay 2020-06-21 [4WWL]

Louisiana Board approves hazard pay for essential workers 2020-05-30 [ABC]

Louisiana Work-release inmates brought in as New Orleans sanitation workers continue protest 2020-05-10 [WDSU]

Louisiana Baton Rouge bus workers' union claims CATS is not providing enough safety equipment 2020-04-21 [Advocate]

Louisiana Federal Prisons Agency “Put Staff in Harm's Way” of Coronavirus 2020-04-04 [Marshall Project]

Louisiana Construction workers considered essential during stay-at-home order 2020-03-29 [KPLC]

Louisiana Union Decries VA Response to Lynched Doll Found in Staff Area of Louisiana Facility 2019-11-11 [Gov Exec]

Louisiana Statue unveiled to honor Latino workers who helped rebuild city after Katrina 2018-11-11 [WWL]

Louisiana International High School of New Orleans must recognize union, court rules 2018-09-27 [NOLA]

Louisiana Kennedy wants unclaimed retirement funds sent to states 2018-09-23 [Albany Times Union]

Louisiana New Orleans woman among leaders in McDonald's strike against sexual harassment 2018-09-13 [The Times-Picayune]

Louisiana GOP Louisiana lawmakers expand inmate labor use for construction 2018-06-10 [Albany Times Union]

Louisiana Task Force Says GAME ON in Fight to Stop Misclassifying Workers 2017-10-27 [WorkersComp]

Louisiana Trump's plan to help blue-collar workers would be a disaster for the black working class of New Orleans 2017-08-21 [Washington Post]