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USA California Trump administration defends immigration tactics after California worker death [Reuters] 13-07-2025

USA Farm worker dies a day after chaotic immigration raid at California farm [Guardian] For more info 12-07-2025

Canada / USA Trump’s copper tariffs threaten more Canadian jobs and industries as trade talks deadline looms [USW Canada] 10-07-2025

USA Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies [NYTimes] 09-07-2025

USA 'An Act of Retaliation': Trump's EPA Suspends 140+ Employees for Signing 'Declaration of Dissent' [Common Dreams] 04-07-2025

USA Oregon Inside One of the Largest Student Worker Strikes Ever [The Nation] 01-07-2025

USA All provisions targeting federal worker benefits, unions stricken from Senate reconciliation package [Gov Exec] 30-06-2025

USA Unions mobilizing in defence of migrant workers [IUF] 30-06-2025

USA / Global Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau, head of the Solidarity Center [LabourStart Podcasts] 25-06-2025

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


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Southern California trash pileup spreads as workers stand with East Coast strikers 2025-07-14 [The Times]

Union calls for reinstatement of EPA workers suspended over letter 2025-07-14 [Gov Exec]

District of Columbia EPA must reinstate employees placed on leave for dissent letter, says union 2025-07-14 [Reuters]

United farmworkers union president discusses the Camarillo clash during ICE raids 2025-07-14 [CBS News]

USA Trade unions express concern over Trump's proposed tariff on South African exports 2025-07-14 [Business Report]

Florida Stand with Federal Workers: American Federation of Government Employees Rally 2025-07-13 [AFGE]

VIDEO California Trash pickup to resume amid sanitation workers strikeTrash pickup to resume amid sanitation workers strike 2025-07-13 [ABC]

VIDEO Massachusetts Boston trash workers strike continues as negotiations set to resume on Tuesday 2025-07-13 [CBS]

California Trump administration defends immigration tactics after California worker death 2025-07-13 [Reuters]

Environmental Protection Agency Workers Investigated for Defending Its Mission 2025-07-13 [Labour Notes]

California Labor union says California university professor was taken during Camarillo immigration raid protest 2025-07-13 [KTLA]

Cultural Workers Are Under Attack: Get Organized 2025-07-13 [CWU AFSCME]

Rhode Island Arthur Coia, president of the Laborers from 1993 to 1999, dies 2025-07-12 [Providence Journal]

Ohio Hundreds protest firing of two University Hospitals pediatricians who were fired for union organizing 2025-07-12 [WEWS-TV]

Trump’s Department Of Labor Is ‘Dismantling Key’ Workplace Protections 2025-07-12 [WNY Labor Today]

Farm worker dies a day after chaotic immigration raid at California farm For more info 2025-07-12 [Guardian]

California One California worker dead, hundreds arrested, after cannabis farm raid 2025-07-12 [Reuters]

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says farm workers won’t get amnesty — after Trump floated leniencyAg Secretary Brooke Rollins says farm workers won’t get amnesty — after Trump floated leniency 2025-07-12 [NYPost]

California Trump official suggests Medicaid recipients, automation can replace immigrant workers. California farmers disagree 2025-07-12 [LATimes]

Border czar Tom Homan says there will be 'no amnesty' for undocumented farmworkers 2025-07-12 [Politico]

New York UFW welcomes release of additional Lynn-Ette worker 2025-07-12 [UFW]

Louisiana New Orleans nurses prepare for two-day strike against management retaliation 2025-07-11 [National Nurses United]

USA Canada must hit back hard as Trump escalates economic extortion 2025-07-11 [Unifor]

California 31 construction workers rescued from collapsed tunnel in Los Angeles 2025-07-11 [KCAL]

Labor Leaders, Workers Rally to Launch AFL-CIO’s ‘It’s Better in a Union’ Nationwide Bus Tour 2025-07-11 [Seafarers Intl Union]

SAG-AFTRA signs new contract with video game makers, with extensive new AI clauses 2025-07-10 [New York Times]

USA Trump’s copper tariffs threaten more Canadian jobs and industries as trade talks deadline looms 2025-07-10 [USW Canada]

VIDEO California Manteca landfill strike leads to disruptions in garbage collection from Stockton to Bay Area 2025-07-10 [KCRA]

Georgia Sanitation workers striking over ‘unfair labor practices’ in metro Atlanta 2025-07-10 [WSB-TV]

VIDEO Pennsylvania Union leader says ‘unfortunately' there is a tentative deal with city 2025-07-10 [NBC]

Labour leaders, workers rally to launch AFL-CIO's 'It's better in a union' nationwide bus tour 2025-07-09 [AFL-CIO]

Pennsylvania Do DC 33 members make a living wage? Philadelphia workers' union strike by the numbers 2025-07-09 [CBS]

Colorado Safeway workers return to work after tentative agreement reached with employees' union 2025-07-09 [CBS]

Pennsylvania Philadelphia union leaders hold rally at location where 2 members were struck by vehicle 2025-07-09 [NBC]

The Supreme Court Didn’t Bother Telling Federal Workers Why It’s Helping Trump Fire Them 2025-07-09 [Balls and Strikes]

Ag Secretary Suggests Replacing Migrant Farm Workers With 'People On Medicaid' 2025-07-09 [Yahoo]

Alabama AL auto plant plans to fight UAW’s latest state union organizing effort 2025-07-09 [AL.com]

Illinois Northwestern University postdoctoral researchers petition school to recognize union 2025-07-09 [Chicago Tribune]

VA backs down on mass layoffs, will cut 30K through attrition only 2025-07-09 [Gov Exec]

Federal agencies can resume mass layoffs, Supreme Court rules 2025-07-09 [Gov Exec]

US’s Largest Labor Union Votes to Cut All Ties to the Anti-Defamation League 2025-07-09 [Truthout]

Pennsylvania Philadelphia workers and city reach a deal to end strike that halted residential trash pickup 2025-07-09 [AP]

Pennsylvania Philadelphia Union Reaches Deal to End Strike That Led to Trash Pileup 2025-07-09 [NYTimes]

Pennsylvania Philadelphia workers and city reach a deal to end strike that halted residential trash pickup 2025-07-09 [Wash Post]

Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies 2025-07-09 [NYTimes]

Pennsylvania Striking Philadelphia city workers reach tentative deal 2025-07-09 [AP]

VIDEO California Zohran Mamdani, The NYC Labor Fight Against, Privatization, Medicare Advantage & Union Bureaucrats For more info 2025-07-09 [LVP]

USA Unifor statement on U.S. tariff threat to Canadian copper jobs 2025-07-09 [Unifor]

AFL-CIO blasts Supreme Court ruling allowing administration to move forward with firing thousands of federal workers 2025-07-08 [AFL-CIO]

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This month in labour history


3-07-1835 In Paterson, New Jersey, children from the textile factories that manufacture silk go on strike for the 11-hour day and the 6-day week. They win a 69 hour week. [more]

4-07-1840 Tenants in upstate New York issue a 'Declaration of Independence', beginning a five-year Anti-Rent War [more]

5-07-1934 Two strikers are killed fighting police, scabs, and the National Guard during the San Francisco longshoremen's strike [more]

6-07-1892 Striking workers defeat and force the surrender of Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike in Pennsylvania [more]

7-07-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World is founded in Chicago. Amongst its leadership at the founding convention were William (“Big Bill”) Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De Leon and Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party [more]

7-07-1919 Actors Equity is recognized by producers after a strike that closed almost all of the country's theatrical productions. Before unionization, actors often had to pay for their own costumes, rehearse without pay, etc. [more]

8-07-1966 The largest strike in aviation history begins, shutting down 60 per cent of the US airline industry for six weeks [more]

9-07-2001 5000 protesters gather outside the Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina to support the ‘Charleston 5’, union activists falsely accused of causing riots when the police charged 2,000 dockers on a picket line. [more]

10-07-1902 112 miners die in an explosion in the Rolling Mill Mine in Pennsylvania [more]

12-07-1933 The Screen Actors Guild holds its first meeting. Among those attending: future horror movie star and union activist, Boris Karloff. [more]

14-07-1912 Folksinger Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. Guthrie wrote hundreds of country, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works, many of which focussed on workers and their unions. [more]

14-07-1959 In Gary, Indiana, more than 500,000 workers went on strike, shutting down the country's steel mills for 5 months. [more]

15-07-1959 Half a million steelworkers across the country strike for a pay increase in their new contract [more]

16-07-1934 The San Francisco Labor Council calls a city-wide general strike in support of longshoremen, which succeeds in winning most of the workers' main demands after four days. [more]

16-07-1934 20,000 Alabama textile workers go on strike at the employers' announcement of a reduction in working hours equivalent to a 25% cut in wages. In September, the strikers will number 300,000. [more]

18-07-1969 African American hopsital workers in South Carolina win union recognition after a 113-day strike [more]

20-07-1899 Newsboys in New York go on strike against press giants Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst [more]

21-07-1877 The government attempts to violently suppress the great railroad strike in Pennsylvania [more]

22-07-1916 A bomb was is set off during a parade in San Francisco, killing 10 and injuring 40. Labour organizer Tom Mooney,and Warren Billings, a shoe worker, were convicted of the crime, but both were pardoned 23 years later [more]

25-07-1907 Trotskyist labor organizer and leader of the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters' strike Farrell Dobbs is born [more]

25-07-1877 Massive general strike in St. Louis, Missouri, in support of railroad workers. 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 special deputies were sent there: 18 dead and many wounded. [more]

26-07-1877 Thirty workers are killed in the Battle of Halsted Street Viaduct during the railroad strike in Chicago. [more]

28-07-1869 Women shoemakers in Lynn, MA demand equal pay with men and form an organization, the "Daughters of St. Crispin". [more]

29-07-1970 The United Farm Workers sign their first collective bargaining agreement with California grape growers [more]

30-07-1975 Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a parking lot in Oakland County and is never seen again [more]