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NY Court Ruling Will Force Retired Workers Into Privatized, For-Profit Medicare Advantage Plans 2025-06-20 [Common Dreams]

Small ‘Wonder’: Delivery Workers Protest Deactivations By New Food App Power Player 2025-06-18 [StreetsBlogNYC]

UFW welcomes release of Lynn-Ette Workers; Continues Union Fight 2025-06-14 [UFW]

UFW to hold rallies for UFW farm worker leaders detained by ICE in NY 2025-05-17 [United Farmworkers]

‘Finally There Is Justice:’ Former Tobacco Sweatshop Workers Relieved Over Wage Theft Indictment 2025-06-07 [The City]

Workers at Brooklyn's Center for Fiction Win Union Recognition 2025-06-07 [NYC CLC]

eBay Escalates Intimidation of Union Members After Closure Announcement 2025-05-27 [CWA]

1199SEIU members to vote on offer from McGuire Group 2025-05-26 [WIVB]

UFW and Supporters Rally in Brooklyn to Demand Release of Detained Worker Leaders 2025-05-26 [NYC CLC]

Warehouse Workers Power NYC’s Fashion Industry. Now, They’re Unionizing 2025-05-13 [Labour Notes]

NY farm workers call on ICE to release detained union leaders 2025-05-04 [Spectrum]

Farm workers union organizes protest at federal facility in Batavia after 14 migrant workers detained 2025-05-04 [Batavian]

Starbucks Workers United Grew Out of Jaz Brisack’s Undercover Organizing. Here’s How 2025-05-01 [Teen Vogue]

Alamo Drafthouse Workers Win 58 Day Strike 2025-04-20 [AFL-CIO]

NYC beer deliveries get back on track after workers for distributors end strike 2025-04-19 [ABC]

BEER DELIVERY union workers on strike 2025-04-19 [NBC]

Workers Protest Abrupt Layoffs at Guggenheim Museum 2025-04-17 [Hyperallergic]

Alamo Drafthouse Strike Ends With All Laid Off Staffers to Be Rehired 2025-04-15 [Variety]

Immigrant farmworkers sign first UFW Union contract in New York 2025-04-02 [FreshPlaza]

Farmworker Unions on the Rise in New York, Joined by the United Farm Workers 2025-03-31 [Civil Eats]

Behind the picket line: Filmmakers document Alamo Drafthouse workers’ battle for better pay  ActNOW!  2025-03-22 [The Brooklyn Paper]

Barnes & Noble workers open a new chapter for bookstore workers in U.S. 2025-03-21 [UNI Global Union]

Unions are sweeping across the city's movie theaters 2025-03-20 [The Chief]

Unions are sweeping across the city's movie theaters 2025-03-20 [The Chief]

New York fires 2,000 prison guards who failed to return to work after week-long wildcat strike 2025-03-11 [CNN]

After state offers new deal, some N.Y. prison workers continue to strike or resign 2025-03-08 [Spectrum]

NYC Barnes & Nobles Workers Win Union Contract 2025-03-08 [LaborPress]

New York Senate passes bill to protect misclassified workers 2025-03-08 [WRGB]

Three unionized Barnes & Nobles in NYC have ratified an historic first contract. 2025-03-07 [Literary Hub]

Deal Struck to End N.Y. Corrections Officers’ Strike, Governor Says: Officers union did not authorize strike 2025-03-01 [NYTimes]

Deal reached to end illegal strike by New York state prison workers, governor says 2025-02-28 [CP]

Union formation crisis disrupts Off-Broadway as strikes prompt theater closures 2025-02-11 [The Chosun Daily]

Jay Mazur, zealous advocate for garment workers, dies aged 92 2025-02-01 [New York Times]

As Off-Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Feel Imperiled 2025-02-10 [New York Times]

‘Union’ documentary depicts historic Amazon unionisation campaign 2025-01-28 [Green Left Weekly]

TWU Local 100 president resigns after being accused of sexual misconduct, union says 2025-01-27 [CBS]

District 4 Woman of Steel Susan Ridgeway’s unwavering commitment to justice 2025-01-26 [USW]

Hochul reveals massive number of undocumented workers as she fears Trump crackdown can crush NY economy 2025-01-22 [NYPost]

CWA Local 1123 President Chris Ryan Sworn in as New York State Senator 2025-01-22 [CWA District 1]

30,000 faculty and professional staff represented by PSC will receive long-overdue raises because a 90% majority of PSC members voted to ratify the new PSC-CUNY contract 2025-01-21 [PSC-CUNY]

SAG-AFTRA Rallies With Atlantic Theater Workers 2025-01-16 [SAG-AFTRA]

‘Union’ Directors Release New Short Documenting December Strike At Amazon, As Their Award-Winning Feature Film Goes For Oscar Nomination 2025-01-14 [Deadline]

NY Significantly Expands Workers’ Compensation Coverage for Work-Related Stress Claims 2025-01-09 [Littler]

Which Side Are You On? Oscar Contender ‘Union’ Chronicles A Yearlong Struggle At Amazon Warehouse 2025-01-09 [Deadline]

Journalists at The Athletic move to join NY Times reporters' union 2025-01-07 [New York Times]

NYC public service workers may ditch Manhattan posts due to costly congestion pricing tolls 2025-01-06 [SI Live]

Workers at Malta (New York) Starbucks stage one-day strike 2024-12-27 [Albany Times Union]

Starbucks workers expand strike in US cities including New York 2024-12-22 [Reuters]

Amazon Teamsters vote to authorize strike at two major NYC warehouses 2024-12-15 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

How The AFL-CIO & US Unions Are Helping Privatization Of Medicare With Joe Maniscalo of Work-Bites For more info 2024-12-14 [LVP]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-06-1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in New York City. [more]

3-06-2016 A federal judge ruled that women's soccer players could not go on strike, despite their collective bargaining agreement (which included a no-strike clause) having expired. The women were in dispute over pay discrimination. [more]

4-06-1912 Massachusetts becomes the first US state to establish a minimum wage [more]

4-06-2012 When National Football League referees failed to agree to a new contract, which included big pension cuts, the NFL locked them out and began hiring scabs to replace them. Bosses came up with a revised offer which was agreed on 26 September. [more]

6-06-1933 10,000 auto workers strike in Lansing, Michigan and paralyze the city for a month following the arrest of 9 of them, including the union president's wife forced to leave 3 children alone at home. [more]

8-06-1917 Disaster at the Spectator mine in Butte, Montana: 168 dead. [more]

9-06-1865 Helen Marot, campaigner for working women, is born. [more]

10-06-1963 Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women. [more]

11-06-1913 Police shoot at maritime workers on strike at United Fruit Co. in New Orleans, killing one. [more]

12-06-1904 Defying AFL's Samuel Gompers, 50,000 members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen walk off their jobs. [more]

16-06-1918 Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene Debs makes his famous speech against capitalism in Canton, OH, which will land him in jail. [more]

17-06-1903 In Philadelphia, "Mother Jones" organizes a demonstration of children who had been mutilated in textile factories to draw public attention to their fate. [more]

19-06-1912 The eight-hour day is adopted for Federal employees [more]

20-06-1947 President Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, but his veto is overturned by Congress three days later. [more]

20-06-1893 The American Railway Union is founded with Eugène Debs at its head. [more]

21-06-1877 Hanging in Pennsylvania of 10 miners accused of being "Molly Maguires" activists sentenced to death on the basis of an investigation carried out by a private detectives agency sponsored by a private company. [more]

23-06-1999 Workers at Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in North Carolina vote for union recognition after a 25 year struggle [more]

27-06-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World, later popularly known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago with the aim of uniting all workers in One Big Union [more]

29-06-1894 Over 125,000 workers on two dozen railroads have joined the boycott of Pullman cars [more]

30-06-1918 Socialist anf labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio [more]