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IAM Union Files Injunction to Protect Right of Striking Maryland IKEA Workers to Peacefully Assemble 2025-01-11 [IAM]

'Understandably very upset about it': Union president says firefighters aren't being paid properly 2024-12-07 [WBAL]

‘Ascension Hospital…is making a mockery of the Church doctrine’: Baltimore Catholic nurses picket Bishops for fair contract 2024-11-24 [TRNN]

Workers at IKEA's Distribution Center in Perryville go on strike, potentially impacting operations 2024-11-15 [WMAR]

Heat killed a sanitation worker. Pending safety rules may have saved him 2024-08-10 [Wash Post]

Apple Store workers in Maryland win first contract 2024-08-07 [New York Times]

Heatstroke death of Baltimore worker during trash collection prompts calls for workplace safety 2024-08-07 [The Gazette]

Apple reaches its first-ever union deal with workers at a Maryland store 2024-08-06 [CBS]

Univ System of MD Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify First System-Wide Union Contract 2024-08-04 [AFSCME]

Union deal approved for thousands of MD Univ workers 2024-08-04 [WMAR]

Apple Store Employee Union Wins 10% Raises for Maryland Store Workers 2024-07-30 [Retail Touchpoints]

Union workers protest in downtown Baltimore 2024-07-28 [AFRO]

US union and Apple reach tentative labour agreement 2024-07-27 [Reuters]

MD is set to finalize its heat standard for workers later this summer 2024-07-24 [NPR]

Black women risked it all in the Crisfield strike of 1938. Maryland finally recognizes them 2024-07-16 [The Banner]

Apple Store Employees in MD Authorize Strike Amid Labor Unrest 2024-07-16 [MSN]

Glenstone museum workers form union after contentious campaign 2024-06-08 [Washington Post]

Baltimore bridge: Crew trapped on ship seven weeks after bridge collapse 2024-05-17 [RNZ]

Apple Store workers in Maryland authorize a strike 2024-05-13 [Washington Post]

Apple Store workers in Maryland vote to authorize strike 2024-05-13 [USAToday]

Apple’s Maryland store workers vote to authorize strike 2024-05-13 [CNBC]

Apple's Maryland store workers vote to authorize strike 2024-05-12 [Investing]

Workers Memorial Day honors the victims of the Key Bridge Collapse 2024-04-29 [WMAR]

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]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-01-1966 From 8:02 a.m., a public transport strike spread across New York. After 12 days, the strikers will get a 15% wage increase and other benefits. [more]

2-01-1920 Thousands of US labor activists are arrested in the 'Palmer Raids' during the first Red Scare. [more]

3-01-1917 Trial of labour organizer Tom Mooney begins in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing. He was framed & serves 22 years. [more]

4-01-1965 Start of victorious 28-day strike by 8000 New York City social workers over better conditions for welfare recipients. [more]

4-01-1966 Transport Workers Union of America leader Mike Quill arrested for violating an anti-strike court injunction in 4-day old 35000-member strike. [more]

6-01-1916 8,000 workers strike the Youngstown steel mills. The next day, they are joined by their families. The guards fired bullets and tear gas canisters at the crowd. 3 strikers die and 25 are injured. [more]

7-01-1920 Five elected members of the New York state assembly belonging to the Socialist Party are refused their seats. [more]

7-01-1939 Tom Mooney of the IWW, after 22 years in prison, is found not guilty of murder. [more]

7-01-1892 100 dead and 150 injured in the explosion at No. 11 mine near Krebs, Oklahoma, when an untrained new hire handles dynamite. [more]

8-01-1811 A slave revolt takes place on the Louisiana sugar plantations. 300 to 500 slaves march on New Orleans, burning the fields in the process. After 2 days, the military crushed the protest. [more]

9-01-1939 1,700 tenant farm families are blocking the Missouri highway after being evicted from their homes so landowners do not have to share government aid with them. [more]

10-01-1860 Collapse of a Pemberton factory in Lawrence, Massachussetts. 900 workers, mostly Irish, trapped in the rubble. More than 100 dead, more injured. [more]

11-01-1912 The 'Bread and Roses' strike began in Lynn Massachusetts. The strike was begun and led by mainly immigrant women. [more]

11-01-1937 Police beat and arrest UAW members during the great sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan [more]

13-01-1874 Mounted police from the NYPD violently attack a demonstration of unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park. [more]

14-01-2003 General Electric decides to transfer $ 400 / year from the employer's share of health insurance contributions to each employee. 14,000 of them go on strike for 2 days in protest. [more]

15-01-1929 Birth of civil rights activist and labor movement supporter Martin Luther King, Jr [more]

17-01-1915 The song 'Solidarity Forever' by Ralph Chaplin is first sung, on a hunger march through Chicago organised by Lucy Parsons. [more]

19-01-1915 20 strikers in Roosevelt, New Jersey, are killed when security guards open fire at an agricultural chemicals factory. They had stopped a train to look for scabs. [more]

19-01-1920 In Hawaii 3,000 members of the Philippine Federation of Labour strike at Ohao plantations. Joined later by members of the Japanese Federation of Labour, their number rose to 8,300. [more]

19-01-1973 In Yuba City, California, a labour contractor, Juan V. Corona, was found guilty of the murder of 25 migrant farm workers between 1970 and 1971. [more]

19-01-2000 Charleston, SC. 600 police officers disperse a demonstration of dockers whose collective agreement is called into question. 5 of them will be arrested on pretexts; the start of the campaign for the liberation of the Charleston 5. [more]

22-01-1969 Black workers at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit march on the autoworkers' union with a list of grievances. The workers had formed ELRUM - the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement - and they called a strike the next day. [more]

23-01-1913 Joe Hill's song 'Mr. Block', extolling the virtues of industrial unionism, is first published in the IWW's newpaper. [more]

27-01-1850 Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, is born. [more]

29-01-1834 Federal troops are used to break a strike for the first time in America, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal [more]

31-01-1938 12,000 pecan shellers, most of them Hispanic women, strike for higher wages and civil rights in San Antonio, Texas. [more]

31-01-1919 The Collar Laundry Union was formed in New York, the first women's union in US history, led by Kate Mullany. Over the next few years the women increase their wages from $2 to $14 a week. [more]