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The latest union shop on Broadway? Phoenix Comics workers organize for retail representation 2024-02-06 [Capitol Hill Seattle Blog]

Concession workers vote to authorize strike at Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix 2023-09-03 [12News]

Arizona Teamsters Ready to Strike for First Contract at Republic Services 2023-07-14 [Teamsters]

‘A step in the right direction’: UA to increase minimum wage for staff, student workers in July 2023-02-05 [The Dailyu Wildcat]

The unionization of Starbucks stores is a step in the right direction 2022-08-19 [Daily Wildcat]

As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over … lives' 2020-08-18 [AZ Central]

Arizona's workers need unemployment insurance reform — now 2020-06-01 [AZ Ctr Am Progress]

AZ health care workers face ‘catastrophic' conditions amid surge in COVID cases 2020-12-31 [PBS]

Understanding workers' rights in AZ 2019-10-13 [AZ Public Media]

We Are Republican Teachers Striking in Arizona. It's Time to Raise Taxes. 2018-05-01 [NYTimes]

AZ Bd of Ed strips Little Rock teachers' union bargaining power 2019-10-13 [SW Times]

'We don't need no education': Now Arizona says teachers don't require college degrees 2022-07-14 [Salon]

Starbucks notches legal win in battle against union organizers 2022-06-10 [NPR]

Maintenance workers unionize at private Arizona prison run by CoreCivic 2022-03-26 [AzCentral]

Starbucks Worker: The entire food industry should go union 2022-03-21 [Jacobin]

Why the Mesa Starbucks Workers Union Vote Results are on Hold for Now 2022-03-19 [Phoenix New Times]

How Starbucks Workers Won in Mesa 2022-03-06 [Labour Notes]

AZ Starbucks becomes first outside New York to unionize 2022-03-02 [AP]

Workers at an Arizona Starbucks cafe win union drive 2022-02-26 [Saltwire]

Arizona Starbucks workers vote to form a union 2022-02-26 [New York Times]

NLRB rules in Arizona case that Starbucks does not have a regional HR department, dealing blow to company's union-busting approach 2022-02-24 [New York Times]

Mesa Starbucks workers face union-busting tactics as they plan to unionize 2022-01-30 [12 News]

'Voting rights affect all of us': Workers unions begin hunger strike at Arizona Capitol 2022-01-17 [AzCentral]

Starbucks Employee Union Efforts Spread to Arizona 2021-11-20 [The Street]

On this Labor Day, we're looking back at a 1917 event involving an Arizona mining town, a sheriff's 'secret court,' and a mass deportation For more info 2021-09-07 [12 News]

Navajo Nation issues vaccine mandate for tribal workers For more info 2021-08-24 [KRQE]

Tucson restaurant workers could form first union of its kind in AZ 2021-07-27 [KOLD]

AZ legislators OK ban on 'critical race theory' training for public workers 2021-05-29 [Tucson]

Group pushing for grocery store workers to get vaccine priority in Arizona 2021-02-27 [3TV/CBS 5]

Grocery workers are still on the front lines, yet lower on the list for receiving the vaccine 2021-02-17 [KOLD]

Phoenix essential workers rally for Raise the Wage Act to up minimum wage to $15 an hour 2021-02-09 [AZCentral]

UA justice coaltion & union: Celebrating a year of resilience, bravery 2020-12-20 [Tucson.com]

Calls for nationwide sickout as Arizona school district cancels reopening 2020-08-16 [The Guardian]

Unions, Safeway raise $40,000 for Navajo Nation 2020-08-07 [WHICentral]

US Foods workers in Arizona threaten to strike over COVID-19 issues 2020-07-30 [AZ Central]

Teachers union and other groups seek tax hike on wealthy for education 2020-01-13 [FOX]

Minimum wage increase puts Arizona near top; advocates say more needed 2020-01-01 [AZ Family]

Unions representing 2,000 Asarco workers vote to strike 2019-10-13 [Tucson]

Arizona Republic Journalists Overwhelmingly Vote to Unionize 2019-10-11 [Phoenix New Times]

Initiative would ask voters to raise hospital workers' pay, make other health-care changes 2019-08-26 [Tucson]

Pima County deputy association formally unionizes, gaining bargaining rights 2018-11-17 [Tucson]

Nurses at Tucson's St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospitals unionize 2018-10-20 [Tucson]

Tucson-based Asarco must pay copper bonuses, appeals court rules 2018-06-21 [Tucson]

Teachers End Walkout as Governor Signs Bill Approving Raises 2018-05-04 [NYTimes]

What teacher strikes are really about 2018-04-28 [CNN]

Arizona teacher walkout: how 3 decades of tax cuts suffocated public schools 2018-04-28 [Vox]

Teachers in Arizona, Colorado walk off the job today 2018-04-26 [NY Times]

Arizona teachers demand 20 percent raise at Capitol protest 2018-04-03 [Education Week]

Arizona teachers engage in mass protests to demand higher pay, more money for students 2018-04-03 [Arizona Republic]

3 American Airlines regional workers protest 'poverty-level' pay at Sky Harbor airport 2018-01-16 [The Republic, vias AZCentral]

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]