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Poultry Workers in Mississippi Ratify a First Contract 2026-02-02 [UFCW]

‘Almost Like Home’ brings Christmas dinner – and community – to Starkville’s essential workers 2025-12-29 [Dispatch]

MS AT&T workers among 17,000 on strike for 'unfair labor practices' 2024-08-18 [WAPT]

Jackson Starbucks Workers First In State To Unionize 2024-06-24 [MS Free Press]

Workers form Mississippi’s first unionized Starbucks 2024-06-20 [WJTV]

Jackson Starbucks files for unionization for better work conditions 2024-06-06 [WLBT]

Unions rally for Brandon Presley ahead of governor’s race 2023-10-29 [Today]

Maximus Call Center Workers Warn of Strike During Open Enrollment 2023-09-08 [CWA]

America’s Corporate Tragedy. A boy has died in a poultry processing plant, and a hashtag is no response 2023-07-23 [Atlantic]

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare 2023-01-25 [NPR]

Farms settle suits on using immigrants over Black US workers 2023-01-07 [AP]

Company fires 2,700 workers while they were sleeping days before Thanksgiving 2022-11-27 [Guardian]

One dead after three workers fall into MS grain storage bin 2022-10-15 [WREG]

Jackson Mississippi, Struggle For Safe Water & Labor With Robert Shaffer, Pres Mississippi AFL-CIO For more info 2022-09-08 [LVP]

MS ICU nurse: ‘I don't have any strength left' as Covid cases surge among unvaccinated patients For more info 2021-08-12 [NBC]

MS ICU Nurse: ‘We Need Help' As Covid Cases Surge For more info 2021-08-12 [MSNBC]

Investigation recovers $285K for Morton plant workers 2022-07-05 [WJTV]

Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public 2021-06-28 [Politico]

As Mask Mandates Lift, Retail Workers Again Feel Vulnerable 2021-03-31 [NYTimes]

MS Food Processing Company Is Looking For Workers After ICE Raids 2019-08-13 [NPR]

ICE Mississippi Raid That Saw 680 Workers Arrested Took Place On First Day Of School, Causing Chaos For Children 2019-08-09 [Newsweek]

MS Immigration Raids Net Hundreds Of Workers 2019-08-08 [NPR]

Thousands of airline food workers vote to authorize a strike 2019-06-24 [WCBI]

Activist and labor organizer from 1963 lunch-counter protest photo dies at 84 2019-01-12 [NBC]

CWA: Federal contractor underpaying workers at 11 call centers nationwide because of misclassification 2018-02-03 [USNews]

Mississippi shipyard union members vote to extend contract 2017-11-29 [AP]

UAW Alleges Nissan Surveils Workers at Plant Where Union Failed 2017-09-30 [Newsmax]

*Nissan, you made us mad*: Union promises to fight defeat 2017-08-07 [Guardian]

UAW accuses Nissan of scare tactics in big loss in organizing drive 2017-08-06 [NY Times]

Nissan workers reject UAW in crucial vote 2017-08-05 [USAToday]

Nissan workers in the South reject UAW, two to one 2017-08-05 [NY Times]

Bernie Sanders and DNC chair Tom Perez attack Nissan for anti-union campaign 2017-08-04 [Wash Post]

Workers at Nissan plant casting ballots on union 2017-08-04 [Wash Post]

Nissan attacked for one of 'nastiest anti-union campaigns' in modern US history 2017-08-02 [The Guardian]

Nissan workers deserve a voice 2017-08-03 [USA Today]

Bernie Sanders: Nissan dispute could go down as most vicious anti-union crusade in decades 2017-08-03 [The Guardian]

NLRB lodges charge at Nissan ahead of union vote 2017-08-02 [USAToday]

Auto Workers' Union Rolls the Dice at Nissan's Canton Plant 2017-08-02 [Reuters]

Racially Charged Nissan Vote Is a Test for U.A.W. in the South 2017-08-02 [NYTimes]

Nissan workers hope for historic win in 14-year fight to unionize 2017-07-24 [Guardian]

UAW: U.S. Nissan workers would vote for union right now 2017-07-21 [Reuters]

U.A.W. Says Nissan Workers Seek a Union Vote 2017-07-13 [NYTimes]

U.A.W. Says Nissan Workers Seek a Union Vote in Mississippi 2017-07-12 [NYT]

Nissan accused of wrongly blocking union activity at plant 2017-03-06 [Washington Post]

Bernie Sanders backs unionization campaign as Democrats draft populist agenda 2017-03-06 [Washington Post]

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]