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From The Baltimore Ship Bridge Wreck To Norfolk Southern East Palestine Derailment & Vinyl Chloride For more info 2024-04-02 [lvpsf]

Iron Workers Union Statement on Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse 2024-03-27 [Ironworkers]

Baltimore Key bridge collapse: Six missing construction workers presumed dead as search suspended 2024-03-27 [Independent]

Unionized hospitality workers in Baltimore to march for better pay 2024-02-08 [CBS]

Apple illegally denied benefits to the first unionized store in the country, says National Labor Relations Board 2023-11-24 [The Business Insider]

UniServ Director – Allegany and Garrett Counties 2023-07-21 [Maryland State Education Association]

Justice for MD public safety workers whose timesheets were illegally changed 2023-07-20 [AFSCME]

UniServ Director -- Eastern Shore 2023-07-07 [MD State Ed Assn]

Unionized Apple store employees propose tipping, increased pay, and more paid time off 2023-05-08 [Techspot]

Apple’s first unionized workers say the company is withholding new benefits 2022-10-29 [Verge]

Apple is reportedly withholding new benefits from unionized retail workers 2022-10-13 [Yahoo]

Prince George's teachers win 6-4-3 wage increase and get more paid planning time in new contract 2022-09-27 [Washington Post]

U. of MD raises minimum wage for student workers to $15 2022-09-04 [Wash Post]

Workers at MOM's Organic Market in Hampden move to form union 2022-07-28 [FOX]

Union representation gives library staff ‘greater say' in their future 2021-10-07 [Baltimore Sun]

Hogan must “Do the right thing” 2021-07-07 [Metro Wash Council ALF-CIO]

TSA Shutters Baltimore Airport Security Checkpoint Over ‘Excessive Callouts' 2019-01-20 [Huff Post]

Cold Baltimore Classrooms Are ‘Inhumane,' Teachers Union Says 2018-01-05 [NYTimes]

Towson, MD - ‘People are stressed': Apple workers set to begin first in-person union election 2022-06-06 [The Guardian]

‘Never seen it like this': In a town of low-paid federal workers, the shutdown stings 2019-01-21 [Wash Post]

Gig work: It's on the rise and for many in the Baltimore area, a way of life 2019-11-30 [Baltimore Sun]

Baltimore County librarians seek to unionize through legislation that's going before General Assembly 2021-01-12 [Baltimore Sun]

Opinion: State's Essential Workers Deserve More Protections on the Job 2021-02-15 [MD Matters]

Many Workers in Md. Don't Have the Right to Form a Union. That Needs to Change 2021-05-20 [MD Matters]

Judge Schedules Hearing that Could Further Extend Unemployment Benefits, Franchot and Workers Decry Hogan's Moves 2021-07-07 [MD Matters]

Federal labor board issues order in nurses' union effort at Johns Hopkins Hospital 2019-06-06 [San Diego Union-Tribune]

The Radical Teachers' Movement Comes to Baltimore 2019-06-08 [The Nation]

Towson workers vote to form first Apple store union in nation 2022-06-29 [Baltimore Sun]

Apple ready to bargain with its first U.S. store to unionize: source 2022-06-25 [Saltwire]

Apple would be unwise to fight 'lopsided' union vote, expert says 2022-06-24 [Yahoo]

Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives 2022-06-22 [AP]

Maryland Apple store workers face hurdles after their vote to unionize 2022-06-21 [NPR]

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store 2022-06-19 [FOX]

Apple workers at Maryland store vote to unionise, a first for the U.S. 2022-06-19 [Reuters]

Apple workers at Maryland store vote to unionize, a first for the U.S. 2022-06-19 [Canada.com]

Apple Inc workers in Maryland, US vote to join a union 2022-06-19 [Al-Jazeerah]

Apple retail workers in Maryland to begin voting in historic union election 2022-06-16 [CNN]

Unions protest lack of labor agreement on Purple Line construction 2022-05-26 [Washington Post]

Apple Store Workers in MD File for Union Election 2022-05-08 [Bloomberg]

Apple Store workers in Maryland begin union drive 2022-05-04 [CNBC]

Sysco workers on strike demand improved working conditions 2022-04-30 [Yahoo]

Baltimore school bus workers join Teamsters 2022-03-29 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

Wages for workers in the construction trades on city projects make a significant jump 2022-03-26 [AFRO]

Starbucks workers in Baltimore area join movement to unionize workplace 2022-03-10 [Baltimore Sun]

Walters museum workers demand inclusive union election, hold rally to up the pressure 2021-08-18 [AFSCME]

Unemployed Workers Union continue fight for unpaid benefits For more info 2021-07-30 [WMAR]

Unemployed Workers Take Push for Unpaid Benefits to Court 2021-07-22 [MD Matters]

Nurses praise Maryland Bill to protect patients from medical debt 2021-06-04 [National Nurses United]

MD members push for essential worker protections 2021-02-21 [AFSCME]

Lawmakers Debate Legislation That Would Protect Essential Workers 2021-02-12 [MD Matters]

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]