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USA Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights [Human Rights Watch] 12-05-2025

USA Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them [WGCU] 11-05-2025

USA Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them [WGCU] 11-05-2025

USA Federal workers spoke to reporters after DOGE fired them. Now they face investigation [CBS] 10-05-2025

USA Higher education under attack - Randi Weingarten [Education International] 08-05-2025

USA Defending democracy: how U.S. public service workers fight back [EPSU] 07-05-2025

USA California “They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case [The Intercept] 06-05-2025

USA Educators and allies turn out in force on May Day to demand dignity, safe schools, and a fairer future [Education International] 06-05-2025

USA AFGE president says downsizing after Trump’s order threatens the union’s survival [CITY] 06-05-2025

USA 22,000 Entertainment Workers Have Unionized in 2 Years Since Writers Guild Strike [Payday Report] 03-05-2025


Other news


VIDEO Idaho Federal workers rally at Boise Airport for TSA union rights 2025-05-17 [KTVB]

VIDEO  Columbus area Starbucks joins union amid workers strike 2025-05-17 [NBC]

VIDEO California SF City Workers Rally & Demand That Demo Mayor Lurie Make No Cuts On City Services For more info 2025-05-17 [LVP]

Teleperformance Workers Mobilize for National Action Against Company’s Mistreatment of American Workers 2025-05-16 [CWA]

Ohio Cleveland Rape Crisis Center workers accuse managment of union-busting, threaten to strike 2025-05-16 [Cleveland Scene]

New Jersey New Jersey Transit engineers strike 2025-05-16 [AP]

More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas strike over new dress code 2025-05-16 [AP]

Trump can’t strip Foreign Service workers of their collective bargaining rights, judge says 2025-05-16 [NBC]

NJ Transit Train Service Is Shut Down as Engineers Strike: The walkout is expected to disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of commuters in the NY metropolitan region 2025-05-16 [NYTimes]

USA Over 8,000 SA healthcare jobs lost after US Pepfar aid cut 2025-05-16 [The Citizen]

USA COSATU welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pending visit to United States 2025-05-15 [COSATU]

VIDEO California USW 675 Hosts UC People's Tribunal For Palestine & US Labor For more info 2025-05-15 [LVP]

New Jersey New Jersey Transit engineers to strike Friday if no deal is reached 2025-05-15 [New York Times]

Trump pick for OSHA sparks fears 2025-05-15 [The Guardian]

VIDEO California UAW 4811, Palestine, Zionist Attacks At UCLA & Labor: Report At UC People's Tribunal For Palestine For more info 2025-05-14 [LVP]

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

Texas North Texas union truck drivers threaten strike over fair wages and autonomous semi concerns 2025-05-14 [CBS]

USA COSATU notes with bewilderment the klein trek by 49 compatriots to the US 2025-05-13 [COSATU]

USA Unifor Aerospace Council statement on U.S. national security investigation into imports of commercial aircraft and jet engine parts 2025-05-13 [Unifor]

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

Locomotive Builders Forge Green Rail Project 2025-05-13 [Labour Notes]

UFCW President Stepping Down, Successor to Be Appointed This Week 2025-05-13 [Labour Notes]

Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights 2025-05-12 [Human Rights Watch]

Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them 2025-05-11 [NPR]

New committee launches for female health and safety 2025-05-11 [IAFF]

USPS’ new postmaster general is a FedEx board member and former Fortune 500 CEO. But union leaders say he’s the ‘last type of person’ who should be in charge 2025-05-11 [Fortune]

Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them 2025-05-11 [WGCU]

Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them 2025-05-11 [WGCU]

Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them 2025-05-11 [WGCU]

Arizona Trulieve marijuana cultivation workers in Arizona make labor history 2025-05-10 [MJBizDaily]

North Carolina Amazon labor organizers challenge union election loss, alleging employer coercion 2025-05-10 [Newsline]

Federal workers spoke to reporters after DOGE fired them. Now they face investigation 2025-05-10 [CBS]

The Overwatch 2 Team At Blizzard Just Unionized, The Second Wall-To-Wall Union At Blizzard 2025-05-10 [WCCFTech]

Oregon Univ OR reaches tentative agreement with student workers union 2025-05-10 [KVAL]

Minnesota You deserve sick time no matter the size of your employer 2025-05-10 [MN Reformer]

Judge orders temporary halt to Trump administration's government overhaul 2025-05-10 [Reuters]

DOL Will Reverse Course on Biden-Era Independent Contractor Rule 2025-05-10 [Lexology]

Sheet Metal Leaders Call for Tax Cuts to Tamp Down Tariffs’ Impact on the HVAC Industry 2025-05-10 [ACHR]

Florida Clearwater workers say barista was fired for leading charge on labor union 2025-05-10 [WMNF]

Complaints allege bias, hostility toward Jewish members of legal union 2025-05-10 [JNS]

USA British Columbia Unifor raises alarm over sale of B.C. refinery to U.S. firm 2025-05-09 [Unifor]

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

VIDEO California STOP THE WAR ON THE VA! Workers, Veterans, Community Speak Out at SF VA Hospital Against Cuts & Privatization For more info 2025-05-09 [LVP]

California Tentative agreement reached to end Kaiser mental health strike 2025-05-08 [CalMatters]

Higher education under attack - Randi Weingarten 2025-05-08 [Education International]

USA Film workers on both sides of the border would be hurt by proposed Trump movie tariffs 2025-05-08 [rabble]

Canada UAW leaders in Michigan break with Fain on tariffs against Canada 2025-05-08 [CBC]

Washington SEIU celebrates the release of Cliona Ward, union member and caregiver, following nationwide advocacy 2025-05-08 [SEIU]

VIDEO California Defending The VA Against Layoffs & Cutbacks NFFE Local 1 President Mark Smith For more info 2025-05-08 [LVP]

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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]