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Cleveland Museum of Natural History workers seek to unionize with AFSCME's help 2025-05-14 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

Ohio Supreme Court rules that nitrogen gas that suffocated worker was 'non-toxic' 2025-05-09 [Signal Cleveland]

With toxic workplace culture, sexual harassment, safety concerns, rampant understaffing, and the departure of 87 workers, Cleveland Museum of Natural History staff begin unionization effort 2025-05-05 [Cleveland Scene]

Did the VA breach its contract with AFGE in Cleveland? 2025-05-01 [WEWS-5]

Laid-off Insight Hospital workers to get job search help at KSU Trumbull 2025-04-06 [WFMJ]

Mercy-Allen registered nurses in Oberlin reach new tentative three-year contract a month after overwhelmingly rejecting the last one 2025-04-02 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

Ohio governor signs legislation banning higher ed faculty strikes, DEI 2025-03-29 [The Plain Dealer]

Unionizing Starbucks workers’ efforts in Ohio draw baristas across the U.S. to Workers United convention in Cleveland 2025-03-27 [Signal Cleveland]

Cuyahoga County Developmental Disabilities Board workers authorize strike 2025-03-27 [Cleveland Scene]

'Fight like hell!' Hundreds protest in Cleveland to show support for USPS 2025-03-24 [WKYC-TV]

'US Mail is not for sale!': Cleveland USPS workers protest planned privatization 2025-03-22 [WOIO-TV]

Cleveland Teachers Union blasts plan to cut minutes, sometimes whole days, from school calendar at the neediest schools 2025-03-19 [WCPN]

Cleveland EMS union pushes for more hires to ease staffing crisis 2025-03-03 [The Plain Dealer]

Cleveland State University workers give information picket over lack of progress in contract talks 2025-02-28 [WEWS-5]

Ohio GOP advances plan to pass right-to-work-for-less, ban on strikes in higher ed, end to public sector release time 2025-02-22 [The Plain Dealer]

OPEIU organizes two Planned Parenthood locations in Ohio 2025-01-25 [WCPN]

SEIU, Ohio Laborers District Council file suit against insulin makers, pharma benefit managers, accusing them of conspiracy to raise cost of lifesaving medicines 2025-01-23 [Ohio Capital Journal]

Cleveland State staff union pushes for wage increase as contract battle heats up 2025-01-23 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

New Northeast Ohio AFL-CIO labor leader intends to fight Trump administration if they plan to lay off federal unionized workers 2025-01-22 [The Daily Signal]

Akron teacher's union calls latest misconduct accusations against superintendent 'appalling' 2024-12-31 [WCPN]

Akron teachers union threatens to sue school district over 'automatically disappearing' emails sent by superintendent 2024-12-10 [WKYC-TV]

'500 days to get a crap agreement': Letter carriers in Cleveland hold picket to protest NALC's tentative agreement with USPS 2024-12-09 [The Plain Dealer]

Miami University faculty union continues to press for an agreement 2024-11-12 [WVXU]

NLRB organizing petitions rise 221 percent in three years as unions step up in Ohio 2024-10-24 [Signal Cleveland]

Cleveland Institute of Music faculty form a union 2024-09-27 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

Cleveland Institute of Music faculty set union vote 2024-09-25 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

Cleveland executive order requires labor agreements on city-funded projects of $500,000 or more 2024-09-05 [WEWS-5]

Cleveland Heights Teachers Union files grievance over extreme heat in buildings 2024-08-31 [WOIO-TV]

Made in America director joins roundtable with members of the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor as part of Made in America Week 2024-07-24 [Signal Cleveland]

Staffers at Legal Aid Society of Cleveland unionize with UAW 2024-07-22 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

SEIU, Cuyahoga County Public Library reach agreement on tentative contract with retroactive 5 percent wage hike 2024-07-10 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

Cuyahoga County Public Library staff union votes to strike as wages remain an issue 2024-06-25 [WCPN]

'UAW All the Way': Ohio EV Plant Workers Hail Historic Contract Victory 2024-06-19 [Common Dreams]

Cuyahoga County Public Library staff mulls strike as wages remain sticking point 2024-06-08 [WCPN]

Cuyahoga County Library Employees Picket, Claiming Unfair Wages and Treatment 2024-06-06 [Cleveland Scene]

Workers at a Cleveland Walgreens are trying to unionize 2024-05-30 [The Plain Dealer]

Cleveland Labor Groups, Politicians Join REI Worker Push Towards Bargaining Contract 2024-05-24 [Cleveland Scene]

Cleveland Starbucks worker fired for unionizing wins reinstatement and back pay 2024-05-16 [Signal Cleveland]

Hearings begin for nurse-to-patient ratio legislation in Ohio 2024-05-14 [WEWS-5]

East Palestine is a Labor issue 2024-05-12 [In These Times]

Cleveland school district reaches agreement with teachers union six weeks early, as district faces huge cuts 2024-05-07 [The Plain Dealer]

Cleveland janitors' union wins 25 percent wage increse in new contract 2024-05-03 [Signal Cleveland]

Boilermakers union signs innovative agreement with Navy shipbuilder to rotate workers into scarce shipbuilding jobs 2024-04-30 [WEWS-5 ]

Floods In East Palestine Bring More Vinyl Chloride Threatening Residents & Workers While Biden's EPA Helps Norfolk Southern For more info 2024-04-13 [LVP]

Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Workers Join SEIU 2024-04-08 [Signal Cleveland]

Valley Ford Truck workers end 3-month strike 2024-04-02 [Signal Cleveland]

Self-driving buses? Not a chance, drivers say 2024-03-12 [Axios]

Bus operators set standard for negotiations involving automation  2024-03-07 [ITF]

Ohio Nurses Association calls off picket notice amid tentative agreement with Cleveland Clinic Akron General 2024-03-05 [WKYC-TV]

Unions join striking Valley Ford Truck employees on the picket line 2024-02-28 [Signal Cleveland]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-05-1886 Between 300,000 to half a million workers went on strike and rallies were held throughout the United States, with the cry, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay". [more]

2-05-1843 "Mill girls" – overwhelmingly female textile workers – walked out on strike in Massachusetts for better conditions. [more]

2-05-1968 4,000 workers in the Hamtramck auto plant in Detroit walked out against speed up. Several black strikers met in a bar opposite and founded the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement to organise black workers. [more]

3-05-1895 Eugene V. Debs and 6 other union railroad leaders are sentenced to 6 months in prison for contempt of court during a hearing over a strike at the Pullman luxury car manufacturing plants. [more]

4-05-1886 A bomb is thrown during a demonstration against police violence in Haymarket Square, Chicago. The ensuing police riot and trials of anarchists, known as the Haymarket affair, eventually give birth to May Day as international workers' day. [more]

5-05-1886 Nine striking workers are shot dead by the National Guard at the Rolling Mills Steel Factory in Bay View, Milwaukee [more]

6-05-1935 The Works Progress Administration is established by executive order - it will provide work for millions of Americans. [more]

7-05-1912 New York City waiters and waitresses walked out on strike [more]

8-05-1926 A. Philip Randolph founds the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. [more]

9-05-1913 The garment workers strike at Cohoes could become an international incident after it emerges that Italian migrant workers are being forced to break the strike. [more]

11-05-1894 Three thousands Pullman railroad workers in Chicago begin a wildcat strike. [more]

12-05-1902 John Mitchell of the UMWA cals for a national strike, beginning the Anthracite Coal Strike which will last five months. [more]

13-05-1893 Western Federation of Miners formed in Butte, Montana. [more]

13-05-1980 Douglas Fraser of the UAW becomes the first union representative on the board a major US corporation after Chystler's stockholders vote him on. [more]

15-05-1935 Folk singer, labor organiser and IWW member Utah Phillips is born. [more]

15-05-1946 489 city workers in Rochester, NY were sacked for organising a union. They protested the next day, and sympathy strikes began, growing to a general strike, when bosses caved and reinstated the sacked workers. [more]

16-05-1934 Minneapolis Teamsters went on strike, shutting down almost all commercial transport in the city. The dispute lasted over three months, ending with most of the workers’ demands being met in a landmark win. [more]

17-05-1946 The US govt seized the nation's railroads to stop a nationwide strike. Workers walked out anyway and only the President's threat to draft the strikers and call up the army to run the railroads forced them back to work. [more]

18-05-1928 "Big Bill" Haywood, former mineworker and founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union, dies in Moscow. [more]

19-05-1920 A shootout took place in the town of Matewan, WV between striking miners and private detectives, who had arrived in town to evict miners' families. Seven detectives, one bystander and two miners were killed. [more]

19-05-1920 A gun battle between the people of Matewan and Baldwin Felts detectives leaves ten people dead. [more]

20-05-1926 The first federal legislation asserting workers' right to form unions takes effect today in the rail industry. [more]

21-05-1945 The US government took over the bituminous coal mines to try to break a six-week miners' strike. The miners held out, forcing the govt to grant workers' demands which had been unacceptable to the operators. [more]

22-05-1942 In Cleveland the Steelworkers Organizing Committee voted to become a union: the United Steelworkers of America [more]

23-05-1903 Some 100,000 textile workers, including more than 10,000 children, are on strike in the Philadelphia area protesting against 60-hour weeks including night hours imposed on children. [more]

23-05-1946 the largest mass arrest in the history of Rochester ny took place. Police rounded up 208 striking workers and even arrested one of the strikers' dogs. The strike spread and was won the following week. [more]

24-05-1995 After 10 months on strike against 12-hour shifts and wage increases linked to productivity, 2300 workers from 5 Bridgestone-Firestone factories resign themselves to going back to work without a collective agreement. [more]

25-05-1946 President Truman comes within three minutes of drafting the nation's railroad workers into the army to suppress a proposed strike, but the union leaders and employers settle just before the presiden't ultimatum comes into effect. [more]

25-05-1805 A Philadelphia shoemakers' strike was broken when workers were arrested and accused of violating an English law proclaiming criminal any conspiracy to force a collective increase in wages. [more]

26-05-1937 UAW organisers are attacked and beaten by Ford security men in Dearborn, Michigan, in an incident which greatly increases support for the union. [more]

28-05-1946 Workers in Rochester, New York, stage a successful one day general strike for the right to form unions. [more]

29-05-1990 The Justice for Janitors strike of ISS cleaners in Los Angeles begins. [more]

29-05-1941 Disney Studios animators in LA strike for union recognition. 16 were fired. [more]

29-05-1946 The Rochester general strike ended after just one day with victory for the workers. They won reinstatement for hundreds of city workers who had been sacked for forming a union, dropping of all charges, and recognition of the union. [more]

31-05-1921 The Sacco and Vanzetti trial begins in Dedham, Massachusetts. [more]

31-05-1943 At the Detroit Packard Motor Co factory, in full war production, 25,000 white workers go on strike when 3 black workers are promoted to a line previously occupied only by whites. The 3 are transferred. [more]