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What it's like to organize my Amazon warehouse as a young queer person 2024-03-18 [Teen Vogue]

MS farm owes nearly $500,000 in back pay to citizen, temporary visa workers 2024-03-13 [KSDK]

Toyota Workers at Critical Engine Plant Launch UAW Union Drive 2024-03-09 [Labour Notes]

UAW ratifies GM deal despite rejection by Wentzville workers 2023-11-17 [Spectrum]

FBI: thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to north korea to help fund weapons program 2023-10-19 [AP News]

Starbucks must rehire worker, rerun union vote in st. louis For more info 2023-10-06 [Law360]

Countering Dangerous Work at Amazon 2023-09-08 [Labor Notes]

Countering Dangerous Work at Amazon 2023-09-08 [Labour Notes]

‘Empowered to fight’: Workers unionize amid window of opportunity for labor 2023-09-03 [MS Biz Alert]

MS inches closer to collecting union dues from prison workers 2023-07-29 [St Louis Today]

Where Is Sean? CWA Pres Chris Shelton Says IBT Pres Has Not Contacted CWA & Other National Unions For more info 2023-07-09 [LVP]

St. Peters warehouse worker takes safety message to Amazon shareholders 2023-05-24 [KSDK]

Apple Store Workers Want to Unionize. Apple Is Union Busting 2023-04-23 [Jacobin]

St. Louis nursing home workers strike over claims of low pay, bed bug infestation 2023-01-17 [St Louis Today]

St. Louis Public Radio Workers Vote for Union 2023-01-15 [RadioLink]

AFL-CIO on fatal school shooting in St Louis 2022-10-28 [AFL-CIO]

Starbucks workers strike, protest over employee’s firing in Ladue 2022-10-23 [Fox]

Starbucks workers in Independence holding strike Sunday 2022-10-10 [KCTV]

Missouri sex workers organize to protect their community's access to abortions 2022-08-24 [St. Louis Public Radio]

Workers say sudden closing of Plaza Starbucks was about union-busting, not safety 2022-08-23 [Kansas City Star]

St. Louis Boeing Plant Workers to Strike 2022-07-31 [Labour Notes]

Boeing workers at three St. Louis area plants vote to strike 2022-07-25 [Washington Post]

Boeing defense workers to strike in St. Louis area over pay issues 2022-07-24 [Reuters]

About 2,500 Boeing workers to strike after rejecting deal 2022-07-25 [KEYT]

‘With this, I've lost count:' As COVID surges in KC, health workers, families struggle 2020-11-09 [Kansas City Star]

‘Paycheck protection' labor reform faces court challenge from seven Missouri unions 2018-08-28 [KS City Star]

Legislator says Right-to-work movement started by ‘known racist' 2018-05-15 [MO Net]

Missouri GOP Senator alarmed by ‘right to work' bill making quick return after major defeat 2018-12-11 [MissouriNet]

Democrats hope blue wave will buoy McCaskill and Galloway — and drown RTW 2018-04-08 [News-Leader]

T-Mobile pledged Sprint merger would create jobs. But it's already cut 500 in KC area 2020-07-17 [KS CIty Star]

On this Labor Day, stand with Truman Medical Center workers for everyone's good 2019-09-02 [KS CIty Star]

McDonald's workers say they're not trained to handle increasing violence 2020-01-31 [KSDK]

Commission's Narrow Workers' Compensation Ruling Overturned, Again 2021-06-24 [Smith Law Co]

Several Starbucks in Kansas and Missouri have unionized. How can other workers do the same? 2022-07-01 [Kansas City Beacon]

Workers at three St. Louis-area Starbucks locations vote in favor of unionizing 2022-06-19 [KSDK]

Local bakery hiring homeless workers says attempts to find housing has hit roadblocks, asking city and landlords for help 2022-05-04 [KMOV4]

St Louis University hospital vote no confidence in administration 2022-04-28 [National Nurses United]

Chesterfield Starbucks employees set to file for union vote 2022-04-13 [KSDK]

Workers at this St. Louis area Starbucks are the first in the area to seek unionization 2022-03-30 [KSDK]

The First Google Fiber Workers Have Unionized 2022-03-26 [cnet]

Starbucks workers in the Kansas City area say the coffee chain can't stop their union push 2022-03-05 [KCUR]

Daniel Boone Regional Library workers intend to unionize 2022-02-05 [Columbia Missourian]

Restaurant workers walk out, say Aviary Cafe 'overworked (them) like slaves' 2021-07-27 [Springfield News-Leader]

OSHA cites 3 employers for exposing workers, residents to asbestos at Monett, Mo. residential care facility 2021-07-20 [KY3]

As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge 2021-07-08 [AP]

University of Missouri campus workers complain of cut hours, jobs over summer 2021-06-11 [Columbia Daily Tribune]

RN's to protest short staffing, PPE problems as Covid-19 crisis surges 2020-11-17 [National Nurses United]

Missouri bill would allow employers to test workers for medical marijuana 2020-02-23 [KY3]

Judge voids 2017 KC Teamsters election, orders feds to oversee next vote 2020-02-15 [KC Biz Jrnl]

Missouri unions add 47,000 members, putting total at a 15-year high 2020-01-23 [St Louis Today]

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]