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State’s largest labor union endorses ‘uncommitted’ over Biden 2024-03-01 [NBC]

Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches Fired a Union Organizer—and Sparked an Organizing Drive 2024-02-28 [In These Times]

Strikes and a Boycott Win a Better Deal from Macy’s 2024-02-18 [Labour Notes]

Macy's Washington workers strike for wage, safety and health issues, agree on new deal 2024-01-26 [KIMA]

WSU Student Workers Strike, Get Deal 2024-01-19 [Inside Higher Ed]

Macy's workers launch ULP strike on MLK Day 2024-01-18 [UFCW 3000]

Students demand UW cut ties with Starbucks over union-busting 2024-01-11 [The Stand]

As bargaining continues, Macy's workers prepare for a bigger strike 2023-12-03 [UFCW 3000]

Workers Sue Windmill Farms to Demand Fair Treatment and Union Recognition 2023-11-29 [UFW]

Macy's workers in Washington state to strike for three days from Black Friday 2023-11-24 [Reuters]

Starbucks illegally kept wages, benefits form union workers For more info 2023-10-03 [Bloomberg]

With 3 recent wins, Starbucks union gains traction in Eastern WA 2023-09-21 [Crosscut]

Mushroom workers and community members rally in support of union drive 2023-09-07 [Real Change]

Advocates ramp up support in Seattle for farmworker union recognition 2023-09-03 [The Times]

Healthcare workers to rally at Kaiser Permanente Washington in Capitol Hill 2023-07-27 [SEIU]

It's hot. For farmworkers without federal heat protections, it could be life or death 2023-07-10 [NPR]

Outdoor workers will soon benefit from revised heat protections 2023-07-07 [JJKeller]

NLRB sues Starbucks over treatment of Seattle workers 2023-07-07 [Reuters]

Butting heads: Tacoma Art Museum board and workers differ on who’s eligible to join union 2023-06-24 [News Tribune]

Richland onion processor pays nearly $90K to workers after overtime investigation 2023-06-24 [Tri-City Herald]

Starbucks Agrees to Give Unionized Workers Back Pay for Missed UW Game Shifts 2023-06-16 [Eater]

“American exports sitting idle at the docks” as union actions shut down Port of Seattle 2023-06-11 [KIRO]

Port of Seattle cargo operations 'shut down' amid labor negotiations For more info 2023-06-11 [KING5]

PMA says US West Coast port workers shut down Port of Seattle; workers' union denies claim 2023-06-11 [Reuters]

Growing Anger & West Coast Work Action: ILWU Local 52 Past Pres Gabriel Prawl On Firings In Seattle For more info 2023-06-05 [LVP]

Supreme Court Rules Against Seattle-Based Workers 2023-06-05 [Urbanist]

In blow to unions, Supreme Court rules Glacier Northwest can pursue strike damage claim 2023-06-02 [NBC]

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute involving truck drivers and wet concrete 2023-06-02 [FOX]

Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout Wednesday over layoffs, return-to-office mandate 2023-05-31 [KIRO]

Seattle Amazon Workers Plan Walkout Over Return to Office, Climate Concerns 2023-05-28 [Slashdot]

Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs 2023-05-23 [Seattle Times]

Victory in WA mushrooms, but still a long way to go 2023-05-20 [UFW]

Farmworkers continue to speak out about conditions at Sunnyside mushroom plant 2023-05-09 [The Herald]

Efforts to unionize agricultural workers in WA face long-standing hurdles 2023-04-30 [The Herald]

Most gig workers paid sick leave under new Seattle law 2023-03-30 [ABC]

Seattle groups rally against Amazon’s alleged union busting in Kentucky 2023-03-27 [The Times]

Starbucks union fight shows hard road for many toward contract 2023-03-05 [Columbia]

Statement from Alphabet Workers Union-CWA in support of Seattle ordinance to ban caste discrimination 2023-02-23 [Alphabet Workers Union]

After layoffs, ex-Amazon workers wonder about ‘Earth’s Best Employer’ 2023-02-12 [Columbian]

Senators hear from healthcare workers on hospital staffing crisis 2023-01-18 [WSNA]

Ostrom mushroom workers in Sunnyside rally again for union recognition 2023-01-15 [Yakima Herald-Republic]

Kroger workers across Western Washington haven’t received proper wages over two months 2022-12-18 [NWPB]

Seattle ILWU Longshore Local 19 & 52 Workers Fight Coast Guard Land Grab Of Working Port Terminals For more info 2022-11-25 [LVP]

Advocates say rules protecting outdoor workers from heat aren't being enforced 2022-09-28 [NPR]

Tumwater Starbucks workers announce they will strike Friday and Saturday 2022-09-09 [Olympian]

Seattle cancels first day of school as teachers go on strike 2022-09-07 [Aljazeera]

Seattle CEO Dan Price, who cut his pay so workers earned $70K, resigns 2022-08-19 [KOMO]

Seattle Area Verizon Wireless Retail Workers Ratify First Union Contract, Drive Organizing Momentum at Telecom Giant 2022-08-10 [CWA]

Three arrests as protest marches on Capitol Hill for ‘essential workers' 2020-11-28 [Capitol Hill Seattle]

Police: Armed man spews ‘KKK' remarks at Lynnwood Walmart 2020-01-20 [Herald Net]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]