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USA Educators, families, and activists unite against Trump policies in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history [Education International] 19-06-2025

USA AFSCME Pres Lee Saunders steps down from DNC [The Hill] 17-06-2025

USA Teachers union President Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC [Politico] For more info 16-06-2025

USA Americans will feel impact of immigration enforcement on farms, union president warns [NPR] 14-06-2025

USA California UFW statement on increased federal activity [United Farmworkers] 13-06-2025

Lesotho / USA Mass lay-offs at garment factories as US tariffs bite [GroundUp] 13-06-2025

USA / Global World Cup: A Year Out, Growing Attacks on Rights [Human Rights Watch] 13-06-2025

USA California Labor unions, which have long championed immigrant rights, are in the forefront resisting ICE in Los Angeles [New York Times] 13-06-2025

USA California IFJ passes motion on targeting of journalists in L.A. [IFJ] 12-06-2025

USA How grassroots rallies and organized labour are helping ramp up protests against Trump [CBC] 11-06-2025


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Crack-down on migrant farm labour a moral and policy failure 2025-06-25 [Syracruse]

Oregon OR Senate passes workplace violence prevention bill for healthcare workers 2025-06-24 [FOX]

ICE raids on farm workers threaten food supply, advocates warn 2025-06-24 [UPI]

Michigan Farmworker & Immigrant Worker Rights 2025-06-24 [MI Immigrant Rights Ctr]

Colorado Workers go on strike at Safeway store in Colorado Springs 2025-06-24 [Gazette]

UAW in turmoil as investment blunder cost the union $80 million 2025-06-23 [Reuters]

Trump loves saying 'You're fired.' Now he's making it easier to fire federal workers 2025-06-23 [NPR]

Teamsters honour Juneteenth 2025-06-23 [Teamsters]

California California farmworkers once again in Trump's deportation cross-hairs 2025-06-23 [Merced Sun-Star]

Washington Lawsuit claims Washington farm replaced local employees with foreign workers 2025-06-22 [KIRO]

Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers 2025-06-20 [Lever News]

Oregon Landmark law extends jobless benefits to strikers 2025-06-20 [NWLP]

Washington Workers at Seattle’s Most Prestigious Restaurant Group Have Unionized 2025-06-20 [Eater]

Trump takes a battering in court over labor union executive order 2025-06-20 [Courthouse News Service]

“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor 2025-06-20 [ITT]

Chile Chilean Starbucks Workers Gain Second Contract after Strike 2025-06-20 [Labor Notes]

USA Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders' 400% raise is a reminder of how little female athletes get paid 2025-06-20 [CBC]

New Mexico Gaslit: CWA Members Fight for a Safe Workplace 2025-06-20 [CWA]

Wisconsin Bill Would Formally Designate ‘Gig Workers’ As Independent Contractors 2025-06-20 [Urban Milwaukee]

Mont. governor vetoes bill providing PTSD workers’ comp coverage for first responders 2025-06-20 [EMS1]

Trump's Biggest Economic Burden on the Working Middle Class 2025-06-20 [Robert Reich]

Texas Lone Star Labor: Texas Workers Unite! 2025-06-20 [TX AFL-CIO]

Letter Opposing Legislation That Would Bust Unions 2025-06-20 [AFL-CIO]

District of Columbia Will D.C. Repeal the Law That Has Cut Tipped Workers' Earnings by $1,800 a Year? The law that was supposed to boost their wealth has left most of them poorer instead 2025-06-20 [Reason]

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

Educators, families, and activists unite against Trump policies in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history 2025-06-19 [Education International]

How retail giant Home Depot is preparing employees for ICE raids 2025-06-18 [Fortune]

Trump U-turn on deporting farm workers came after fury from Noem and Miller, report claims 2025-06-18 [The Independent ]

Massachusetts Hampden County: Chicopee city workers seeking better pay and health benefits 2025-06-18 [WWLP 22 News]

Employees were already freaked out about AI — Amazon just proved them right 2025-06-18 [Business Insider]

More employers are sending workers shopping for their own health coverage 2025-06-18 [AP]

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

Jamie Dimon wants workers in the office. So why is he letting JPMorgan’s European chief work remotely? 2025-06-18 [MarketWatch]

Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees 2025-06-18 [CNN]

DHS immigration raids set to continue 2025-06-18 [CNN]

AFGE denounces 'One big beautiful Bill' as an attempt to eviscerate unions 2025-06-18 [AFGE]

Colorado Safeway employees in Colorado are striking. Here’s where things stand 2025-06-17 [CPR News]

'No safe spaces': ICE raids will target farms and hotels despite Trump's vow 2025-06-17 [RawStory]

Team Trump reverses course - again - on ICE raids policy, as White House dysfunction worsens 2025-06-17 [Maddow Blog]

AFSCME Pres Lee Saunders steps down from DNC 2025-06-17 [The Hill]

Federal court to hear arguments in lawsuit brought by federal workers’ unions alleging retaliation and union busting 2025-06-17 [Nat'l Nurses United]

VIDEO Colorado Safeway strike will continue to grow across Colorado until agreement is reached, union leaders say 2025-06-17 [Denver7]

Illinois Following years of grassroots efforts, a driver-led coalition secures commitment from Uber to support statewide legislation that will pave a pathway to unionization 2025-06-17 [IAM]

Connecticut Outside the Governor’s Mansion, union workers urge Lamont to approve unemployment benefits during strikes 2025-06-17 [Yahoo]

Colorado Some Colorado Safeway/Albertsons Workers Now on Strike 2025-06-16 [Progressive Grocer]

Randi Weingarten of AFT, Lee Saunders of AFSCME, resign from the Democratic National Committee, citing disagreements with new party chairman, Ken Martin 2025-06-16 [New York Times]

Will Trump End the First Federal Heat Protections for Workers? 2025-06-16 [NYTimes]

Teachers union President Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC For more info 2025-06-16 [Politico]

California UFW calls bullshit: Farm workers in danger despite 'pause' in ICE raids 2025-06-15 [United Farmworkers]

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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]