| 2026-03-13 | Judge Orders VA to Reinstate Union Collective Bargaining Agreement for 300,000 Employees
4 src AFGE |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | OPM Proposes Rule Making Performance Primary Factor in Federal Layoffs, Replacing Seniority
4 src AFGE |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-22 | DHS Shutdown Emergency Measures: 63,000 TSA Agents Working Without Pay
3 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · TSA · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-15 | Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Bill Passes via Discharge Petition 231-195
2 src Mike Johnson · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-15 | 4.3 million workers could lose overtime protections
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-10 | Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-05 | Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity
3 src AFL-CIO · Democracy Forward · National Treasury Employees Union |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order on Federal Collective Bargaining Exclusions
4 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm
3 src Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2024-11-13 | NLRB Rules Captive Audience Meetings Are Illegal Employer Coercion (Likely Reversed 2025)
2 src National Labor Relations Board · Biden Administration · Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable |
| confirmed |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year
3 src Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-02 | Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380
3 src Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union |
| confirmed |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers
3 src Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union |
| confirmed |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse
4 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote
3 src National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union |
| confirmed |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union |
| confirmed |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union |
| confirmed |
| 2019-09-02 | Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages
3 src Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-13 | McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs
5 src McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government |
| confirmed |
| 2015-05-06 | Oklahoma Governor Signs HB 1749 Banning State Payroll Deductions for Teachers Union Dues Despite Technical Flaws
3 src Oklahoma Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts
5 src Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40%
3 src U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers | | confirmed |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · John F. Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights
3 src John F. Kennedy · Federal employees |
| confirmed |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity
2 src American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers | | confirmed |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement
6 src CIO · AFL | | confirmed |
| 1939-02-27 | Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · National Labor Relations Board · Corporate employers |
| confirmed |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
3 src John L. Lewis · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-05-30 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons
4 src Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 1937-05-26 | Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge
3 src Ford Motor Company · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · Henry Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory
3 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Frank Murphy · Walter Reuther | | confirmed |
| 1937-01-11 | Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire
3 src United Auto Workers |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
4 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Walter Reuther · Frank Murphy | | confirmed |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
3 src U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network
2 src Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · U.S. Steel |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers
3 src Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction
3 src U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre
6 src John D. Rockefeller Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children
5 src United Mine Workers of America · John D. Rockefeller Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis | | confirmed |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1902-10-03 | Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal
3 src Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root | | confirmed |
| 1902-05-12 | Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out
3 src United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies | | confirmed |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention
3 src Western Federation of Miners | | confirmed |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
3 src U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers
3 src Samuel Gompers · Knights of Labor | | confirmed |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse
3 src Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | | confirmed |