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USA / Global Solidarity Center Files Lawsuit to Challenge Termination of Global Labor Rights Programs [Solidarity Center] 17-04-2025

Europe / USA UNI Europa urges EU to impose ‘Amazon Tax’ in response to US trade war [UNI Global Union] 15-04-2025

USA Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers [Labour Notes] 15-04-2025

USA Alamo Drafthouse Strike Ends After Deal Is Reached in New York [The Hollywood Reporter] 15-04-2025

USA / Canada Unifor, UAW now at odds over Trump's auto tariffs as industry tensions rise [Detroit Free Press] 13-04-2025

Russia / USA US shutdown of RFE/RL broadcasting in Russian language further undermines the public’s right to know [IFJ] 11-04-2025

USA Trump administration ends union dues collection for most feds without notice [Government Executive] 10-04-2025

Mexico / USA “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs [Democracy Now] 09-04-2025

USA 'Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors' [Common Dreams] 07-04-2025

USA Federal Unionists Say It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On [Labour Notes] 07-04-2025


Other news


Illinois Chicago Teachers approve contract with remarkable gains 2025-04-22 [Labor Notes]

Washington Washington state workers take the fight to the Governor 2025-04-22 [Labor Notes]

California Victory for Amazon Teamsters in California 2025-04-22 [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]

Hawaii Hawaiian AFA Flight Attendants Ratify Contract Extension 2025-04-21 [AFA-CWA]

Union sues King Soopers, claims grocery giant violated strike-ending agreement 2025-04-21 [The Pueblo Chieftain]

Indiana Coca-Cola workers reach deal after three-week strike over labor disputes: 'Best and final offer' 2025-04-21 [The Cool Down]

Florida Miami farm workers’ last hope for heat protection regs appears dead under Trump 2025-04-20 [Miami Herald]

Inside AFGE's Fight Against Trump's Federal Job Cuts 2025-04-20 [New York Times]

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

Explaining Young Workers’ Support for Unions 2025-04-20 [CAP]

Balancing Union Support and Worker Control 2025-04-20 [Jacobin]

Trump to reclassify many federal workers making them easier to fire 2025-04-20 [Reuters]

California A Kaiser strike by mental health workers drags on — setting a US record — as talks resume 2025-04-20 [CalMatters]

What Is Schedule F? Trump's Move to Fire 50k Federal Workers More Easily 2025-04-19 [Newsweek]

AFT welcomes new affiliates, hard-fought contracts in higher ed 2025-04-19 [AFT]

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

VIDEO  Union Members are Leading the Defense of Immigrant Workers and Students 2025-04-19 [Labor Notes]

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

Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performance 2025-04-19 [AP]

VIDEO  Trump moves to reclassify federal workers, making it easier to fire them 2025-04-19 [PBS]

VIDEO California It's Game Time! The Fight Against Destruction of SFSU & Public Education, SFSU CFA, UAW4123 Speak Out For more info 2025-04-19 [LVP]

Union Members are Leading the Defense of Immigrant Workers 2025-04-18 [Labor Notes]

Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike 2025-04-18 [Labor Notes]

Trump revamps rule to make it easier to cut federal workers, Axios reports 2025-04-18 [Reuters]

Indiana Eyewitness News workers decry recent layoffs as 'union busting' 2025-04-18 [Courier&Press]

Are you a federal worker fired by the DOGE? Are you wondering what your rights are? 2025-04-18 [Instagram / AFL-CIO]

Workers Rights Organizations Condemn the Dismantling of Workplace Civil Rights Enforcement Agency 2025-04-18 [Natl Employment Law Project]

Massachusetts Six MA hospital workers on same floor report getting brain tumors 2025-04-18 [Guardian]

Utah Protect Utah Workers coalition far exceeds signature gathering goal 2025-04-18 [Deseret News]

CLUW Speaks Up to Say: the U.S. Mail is Not For Sale! 2025-04-18 [APWU]

Bills Introduced to Fight Trump’s Restrictions on Collective Bargaining Rights of Federal Employees 2025-04-18 [FedSmith]

Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace 2025-04-18 [The Nation]

Tennessee United Campus Workers-CWA Members Fight Against Cuts and for Higher Wages 2025-04-18 [CWA]

SEIU demands release of unjustly detained workers, citing political retaliation 2025-04-18 [UNI Global Union]

USA Fight against Trump’s tariffs the focus at Western Regional Town Hall 2025-04-17 [Unifor]

USA Unifor Aerospace Council statement on U.S. Tariffs 2025-04-17 [Unifor]

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

Sweden Elanders blocks Swedish delegation investigating union busting in the U.S. 2025-04-17 [UNI Global Union]

USA COSATU welcomes Mr. Mcebisi Jonas’ appointment as the Presidential Envoy to the United States 2025-04-17 [COSATU]

Global Solidarity Center Files Lawsuit to Challenge Termination of Global Labor Rights Programs 2025-04-17 [Solidarity Center]

'Invest in us': UAW slams Stellantis for preparing massive pay day for Wall St while thousands of workers are laid off in MIchigan, Indiana, Illinois and beyond 2025-04-17 [UAW]

Labour and democracy partmers announce Rise Up: Legal defence network for fired federal workers 2025-04-17 [AFL-CIO]

AFL-CIO supports lawsuit challenging cuts to labour department's bureau of international labour affairs 2025-04-17 [AFL-CIO]

AFL-CIO, unions sue Trumpadministration over cuts to key labour relations agency 2025-04-17 [AFL-CIO]

Over 22,000 IRS workers take Trump's latest buyout offer, agency sources say 2025-04-16 [Reuters]

The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos 2025-04-16 [The Atlantic]

Rise Up, Fight Back. We’re a network of lawyers helping to get federal workers the justice they deserve 2025-04-16 [Workers Legal Defense]

AFL-CIO: Elon Musk and DOGE are counting on fired federal workers being unable to afford legal council 2025-04-16 [FB AFL-CIO]

AFL-CIO, Others, Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump 2025-04-16 [New York Times]

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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]