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It's time to vote for a voice at Mercedes 2024-04-22 [UAW]

“The Time is Now”: Mercedes workers in Alabama to vote for union May 13-17 2024-04-19 [UAW]

Workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to vote in May on United Auto Workers union 2024-04-19 [ABC]

With a Velvet Glove, Mercedes Tries to Punch Down AL Union Momentum 2024-04-12 [Labor Notes]

Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South 2024-04-07 [WAMU 88.5]

Mercedes workers at an Alabama plant call for union representation vote 2024-04-07 [Columbia Missourian]

Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Ask for Unionization Vote 2024-04-06 [NYTimes]

Mercedes Workers In Alabama Stand Up to Vote on a Union 2024-04-06 [More Perfect Union]

North Alabama Area Labor Council condemns “anti-worker” legislation 2024-03-27 [APR]

UAW says majority of workers at Mercedes Benz US plant seek to join union 2024-02-28 [Reuters]

UAW: Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Vance signal they want to join auto workers union 2024-02-28 [WBRC]

Tuscaloosa Mercedes workers say majority have signed union cards 2024-02-28 [The News]

Majority Of Workers At Alabama Mercedes Plant Signed Union Cards, UAW Says 2024-02-28 [HuffPost]

Most Workers At Largest U.S. Mercedes Plant Signal Union Support, UAW Says 2024-02-27 [Forbes]

IAFF bolsters organizing and collective bargaining opportunities 2024-02-18 [IAFF]

More than 30% of Alabama Hyundai workers support effort to join UAW 2024-02-02 [UPI]

Workers at Alabama Hyundai plant announce union as UAW drives deeper into Southeast 2024-02-02 [The Hill]

Montgomery Hyundai workers announce union drive, 2nd at Alabama auto plant 2024-02-02 [The Reflector]

Mercedes Workers Ditched the Old Organizing Playbook 2024-01-20 [Jacobin]

Montgomery Hyundai workers hold unionization forum with United Auto Workers 2024-01-17 [The Daily News]

Unions threaten Alabama’s low wages, not Alabama’s workers 2024-01-16 [AL Political Reporter]

Workers Killed by Nitrogen Leak While Trying to Save Their Coworkers, Report Finds 2024-01-11 [EJI]

Mercedes Plant in Alabama Reaches Key Milestone in UAW Union Campaign 2024-01-11 [BNN]

Mercedes-Benz workers launching union campaign at Vance plant 2024-01-11 [Reflector]

Mercedes-Benz plant hits 30% UAW authorization support 2024-01-11 [The Journal-Gazette]

The workers at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama just made history: Over 30% have signed union cards! 2024-01-11 [UAW]

The 2024 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference 2024-01-03 [MLK Conference]

Tuscaloosa auto workers reach agreement after going on strike 2023-10-20 [WBRC]

UAW workers at ZF plant in Alabama ratify labor deal, end strike 2023-10-20 [Reuters]

ZF workers in Alabama mark 10-days on strike 2023-09-30 [UAW]

Nearly 200 workers go on strike at Tuscaloosa Mercedes supplier 2023-09-22 [MI Advance]

Amazon reinstates Alabama warehouse worker and union leader weeks after her firing 2023-06-16 [CNN]

Could there be a third Amazon union election in Bessemer? 2023-06-07 [AL]

Amazon Fired Another Alabama Union Organizer, Union Says 2023-06-03 [BNN]

Amazon Fires Alabama Union Leader Who 'Lit the Spark of the Current Rise of Labor Activism' 2023-06-03 [Common Dreams]

Amazon fires global face of BAmazon campaign 2023-06-03 [UNI]

Incarcerated Mine Workers, 1907 2023-04-15 [Encyclopedia of AL]

Striking Mine Workers in 1934 For more info 2023-04-15 [Encyclopedia of AL]

UMWA ends two-year strike at Warrior Met Coal mine without a contract 2023-03-04 [New York Times]

The longest strike in the U.S. just ended: This is the workers’ story 2023-02-26 [Fast Company]

United Mine Workers of America seeks new strategy to end nearly two-year Alabama strike 2023-02-18 [CBS]

AL Democrats want to ban employers from forcing workers to get microchipped For more info 2023-02-13 [FOX]

House Dems Urge Biden Administration to Rid Hyundai Supply Chain of Child Labor 2023-02-12 [Common Dreams]

US mining company dispute: AL miners demand better pay 2022-12-24 [Al Jazeera]

Slavery rejected in some, not all, states where on ballot 2022-11-10 [NBC]

From Call Centers to Coal Mines: Swapping Stories at the Alabama Troublemakers School 2022-10-21 [Labor Notes]

Union says Alabama paper mill workers locked out of WestRock Mahrt Mill 2022-10-07 [AL.com]

'Society Has Shut Down On Us:' Prison Strikers Across Alabama Demand Change Despite Severe Retaliation For more info 2022-10-07 [Labor Notes]

NLRB revises damages calculations in Warrior Met strike 2022-09-20 [UMWA]

Warrior Met demands to fire 40 strikers without due process 2022-09-03 [UMWA]

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]