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Today in Labor History, February 24, 1908
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Muller v. Oregon to uphold the state’s restrictions on the working hours of women, setting a precedent to use sex differences — and in particular women’s child-bearing...
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Today in Labor History, February 25, 1987
Labor organizer and civil rights activist Edgar Daniel (“E.D.”) Nixon dies. While working as a Pullman porter, Nixon organized the Montgomery local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and served...
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Today in Labor History, February 28, 1986
South African workers at the 3M plant in Elandsfontein near Johannesburg stage a half-day walkout in solidarity with 3M workers in Freehold, New Jersey. The company announced in November 1985 that it...
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Today in Labor History, March 1, 1936
After five years of construction between 1931 and 1936 by 21,000 workers (96 of whom died on the job; another 46 of whom died from carbon monoxide poisoning, classified as “pneumonia” to avoid...
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Today in Labor History, March 2, 1990
6,000 Greyhound bus drivers go on strike over wages and job security. The company hired 3,000 scabs to permanently replace the striking workers, declared the strike over two months later, and filed for...
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers get Walmart on its Fair Food Program
On January 16th Walmart signed onto The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Fair Food Program (FFP), in what labor advocates are hailing as a breakthrough victory. For more than 20 years, CIW...
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Two Flight Attendant Unions Negotiate on Single Contract Following Airline...
When two unions are representing one pool of workers agree to come together to do joint negotiations for a single contract it will generally strengthen the collective voice of the respective unions’...
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Victory for IWW Mobile Rail Workers
NOTE: This is a copy and paste from the IWW site in an effort to spread this news around. You can link to the original here. On Feb. 10, Mobile Rail Solutions—a small railroad servicing company based...
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If it is Predictable, It is Preventable
The California Safe Care Standard’s campaign to get a comprehensive workplace violence prevention standard for healthcare workers –Petition No. 538 – is all about ensuring that engineering and...
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Recent Attacks on Nurses Underscore Need For Cal/OSHA Workplace Violence...
Two separate and horrific incidents of workplace violence took place on Easter Sunday at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the Los Angeles area. These incidents speak...
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It’s About Time!
By Richard Negri During the first week on my new union staff job in 2010, I was assigned to work on an already up-and-running home care workers campaign to get them minimum wage and overtime...
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NLRB Slaps Community Health Systems for a Series of ULPs
After Regional efforts to settle the matter with the parties were unsuccessful, a consolidated complaint was issued. The complaint involves 29 charges filed against CHS hospitals. The National Labor...
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Talking About It
By Richard Negri When we conducted our first (as Labor Side Communications) Safety and Health Primer class last week in Orange County (hosted at UFCW Local 324), our intention was to share information...
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OSHA Launches Workplace Violence Prevention Web Page
FedOSHA set up a new webpage with tools to help prevent workplace violence in healthcare settings, which includes its violence prevention guidance published earlier in the year. Many now know that...
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MMA Fighters Fighting Back Ol’ School Worker Abuse!
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, all of whom are hired on as independent contractors by organizations like the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), are now contending with a fight many everyday...
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Today in Labor History, January 21, 1919
35,000 shipyard workers in Seattle go on strike seeking wage increases. They appealed to the Seattle Central Labor Council for support and within two weeks, more than 100 local unions joined in a call...
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Federal Contractors with History of OSHA Violations Battle New Safety Rules
Posted with permission from authors Mary Bottari and Jessica Mason, original article is here. Every day, American workers are killed and injured on the job. From explosions, electrocutions and toxic...
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OSHA Issues New Injury and Illness Reporting Rules
Cross-posting from SoCalCOSH.com On Wednesday, May 11, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new injury and illness reporting rules that both labor and OSH advocates are...
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