Educators, families, and activists unite against Trump policies in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history
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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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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]