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The Problems With the Amazon Labor Union [The American Prospect] 2023-03-24
Michigan Democrats vote to repeal anti-union law [Daily KOS] 2023-03-20
Michigan MI Senate repeals right-to-work-for-less law in historic victory for organized labor [Washington Post] 2023-03-16
Feds expand probe into migrant child labor in American slaughterhouses [NBC] 2023-03-02
California Over 200 hotel workers and supporters protest at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn [IUF] 2023-03-01
New York Restaurant Workers at Rockefeller Center’s Lodi Confront Union-Buster Ahead of Vote [Labor Notes] 2023-03-01
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. [New York Times] 2023-02-26
Steven Greenhouse: 'Old-school union busting': how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing [Guardian] 2023-02-26
HC Union Ratifies New Contract [Publishers Weekly] 2023-02-17
In Mexico, US complaints help union organizing efforts [ABC] 2023-02-13
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6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]
7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]
7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]
7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]
8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]
8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]
9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]
11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]
12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]
12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]
13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]
15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]
15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]
16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]
18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]
31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]