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Boston University graduate workers vote to strike starting Monday 2024-03-22 [Boston Globe]

Battle in Boston 2024-03-01 [TWU]

Workers at McLean Hospital win hard-fought first contract 2024-01-19 [AFSCME]

Teachers Illegal Strike Wave Rolls On 2024-01-14 [Labour Notes]

Bounced checks leave workers unpaid again at Roxbury nursing home 2024-01-11 [Boston25]

Boston engineering firm, W.S. Barrett and Son, fined after workers exposed to cancer-causing fumes fined after workers exposed to cancer-causing fumes 2023-12-03 [ITV]

'Women Build Boston' Convention Celebrates Union Tradeswomen 2023-10-29 [WBZ]

Women welders team up to create permanent jewelry that's Made in Mass 2023-10-16 [WCVB]

Woman set to lead MA AFL-CIO for first time 2023-09-29 [The Globe]

Ahead of October Election, Harvard Undergrad Union Campaign Faces Tight Hiring Deadline 2023-09-05 [The Crimson]

‘This is a moment for workers’: Service employees march for better pay, working conditions 2023-09-03 [Boston Globe]

Labor group challenges Starbucks’ union-busting in Northampton meeting 2023-08-16 [The Reminder]

MBTA reaches deal with largest union 2023-08-04 [Trains]

NLRB backs unionized Hadley Trader Joe’s workers in discipline dispute 2023-07-11 [MassLive]

Local UPS workers prepare for strike as negotiations hit standstill with Teamsters 2023-07-10 [WGGB/WSHM]

Trader Joe's Illegally Retaliated Against Pro-Union Workers: Federal Officials 2023-07-09 [HuffPost]

Director of Field and Organizing 2023-07-07 [MTA]

Some Logan Airport workers set to strike 2023-06-23 [7 NEWS WHDH Boston]

‘It’s about respect’: Union workers at Encore Boston Harbor vote to authorize strike 2023-06-22 [Boston 25 News]

Director of Human Resources 2023-06-19 [MTA]

Staff Counsel 2023-06-19 [MTA]

How Worker Solidarity Propelled a Union Drive at the Country’s Richest University 2023-06-13 [In These Times]

David Zaslav Gets Booed at Boston University Graduation Amid the Writers Strike 2023-05-21 [Hollywood Reporter]

Fisheries Workers, Cut for Organizing, File Labor Board Charges 2023-05-04 [Labour Notes]

Exposed: Mass General Hospital's Shocking Move to Crush Employee Unionization Efforts! 2023-04-27 [Labor Lab]

Owner of Mass. pizza chain accused of beating, exploiting undocumented workers 2023-03-17 [WCVB]

Lewis presents International Women’s Day exhibit at Chicopee Public Library 2023-03-09 [Reminder]

Massachusetts teachers unions push for the right to strike 2023-01-04 [The Globe]

The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized, and Made Labor History 2022-12-27 [Teen Vogue]

When the union comes to a cafe near you 2022-12-23 [Boston Globe via goodwordnews]

Undaunted by Fines, Massachusetts Teachers Defy Strike Ban 2022-11-17 [Labour Notes]

Malden teachers union, School Committee reach tentative deal to end strike in Massachusetts city 2022-10-25 [WCVB]

Agreement reached to end teacher strike in Haverhill; School open Friday 2022-10-25 [CBS Boston]

Teachers in two Massachusetts cities strike, this week in the war on workers 2022-10-25 [Daily Kos]

Starbucks Is Using the Police as Strikebreakers 2022-10-04 [The Progressive]

Strikers on their 60th day on Comm. Ave. 2022-09-25 [The Free Press]

Starbucks demands union strikers move on 60th day of stakeout, protest ensues 2022-09-16 [The Free Press]

Mass MoCA workers strike for one day over pay and benefits, as talks for a first contract continue 2022-08-20 [Berkshire Eagle]

Starbucks workers strike outside Boston-area stores, allege coffee giant is retaliating against unionization 2022-08-02 [WCVB]

Unionized Starbucks workers go on strike in Worcester, 'sip-ins' staged elsewhere 2022-08-01 [Telegram&Gazette]

Starbucks workers at Commonwealth Ave. in Boston plan rally on Aug. 1 after being excluded from new benefits 2022-07-31 [MassLive]

Trader Joe’s employees form union, citing concerns about health benefits, pay 2022-07-30 [Benefits Canada]

Trader Joe’s Workers Unionize In Historic Vote In MA 2022-07-29 [Huff Post]

Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts vote to unionize for the first time 2022-07-29 [Washington Post]

Group of female MBTA workers allege harassment, discrimination, report says 2022-07-28 [WCVB]

Trader Joe's workers set to vote on forming a union 2022-07-27 [CBS]

Hadley Trader Joe’s Urges Workers To Vote Against Union Ahead Of Election 2022-07-26 [Huff Post]

‘Educators will not be silenced': State teachers union responds to ruling of illegal strike in Andover 2020-09-11 [Boston.com]

‘They're going to try to do here what they did in California': A potential gig worker ballot fight is looming in Massachusetts 2021-06-23 [Boston.com]

Plimoth Plantation and its ‘Pilgrims' at odds 2018-03-24 [Boston Globe]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]