#Labor-Rights
Events indexed under #Labor-Rights — 62 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-13 | Judge Orders VA to Reinstate Union Collective Bargaining Agreement for 300,000 Employees Judge Melissa DuBose · VA Secretary Doug Collins · AFGE | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | OPM Proposes Rule Making Performance Primary Factor in Federal Layoffs, Replacing Seniority OPM · AFGE · Rep. James Walkinshaw | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-22 | DHS Shutdown Emergency Measures: 63,000 TSA Agents Working Without Pay 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 Don Bacon · Mike Johnson · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | 4.3 million workers could lose overtime protections Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity National Legal Defense Consortium · State-Level Legal Aid Organizations · Civil Rights Attorneys · AFL-CIO · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order on Federal Collective Bargaining Exclusions 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 Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-13 | NLRB Rules Captive Audience Meetings Are Illegal Employer Coercion (Likely Reversed 2025) National Labor Relations Board · Biden Administration · Workers · Union organizers | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority 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 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 Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote 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 Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union · Morgan Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-02 | Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Billy Foister | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages 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 McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government · Rafael Torregrosa | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-06 | Oklahoma Governor Signs HB 1749 Banning State Payroll Deductions for Teachers Union Dues Despite Technical Flaws Governor Mary Fallin · Oklahoma Legislature · Oklahoma Education Association · American Federation of Teachers Oklahoma · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ver.di Union | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts Gerald Ford · Jimmy Hoffa | confirmed | |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40% U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers · Labor reformers · Civil rights organizations | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech Martin Luther King Jr. · Bayard Rustin · A. Philip Randolph · John F. Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights John F. Kennedy · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Federal employees · Jerry Wurf | confirmed | |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · AFL · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1939-02-27 | Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations Supreme Court of the United States · National Labor Relations Board · Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation · organized labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation Republic Steel · Tom Girdler · Bethlehem Steel · Youngstown Sheet and Tube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-30 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons Chicago Police Department · Republic Steel Corporation · Steel Workers Organizing Committee · striking workers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-26 | Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge Ford Motor Company · Harry Bennett · Ford Service Department · United Auto Workers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Owen Roberts · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law Supreme Court of the United States · Owen Roberts · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory United Auto Workers · General Motors · Alfred Sloan Jr. · William Knudsen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1937-01-11 | Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire United Auto Workers · Flint Police Department · General Motors security forces · Fisher Body Plant 2 strikers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants United Auto Workers · General Motors · Fisher Body workers · Bob Travis · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network La Follette Committee · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · Corporations Service Bureau · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · American Liberty League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining Franklin D. Roosevelt · Robert Wagner · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart U.S. Supreme Court · Justice William R. Day · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers President Woodrow Wilson · Representative William C. Adamson · Railroad Labor Brotherhoods · Austin B. Garretson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre John D. Rockefeller Jr. · Frank Walsh · Commission on Industrial Relations · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company | confirmed | |
| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children Colorado National Guard · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company · United Mine Workers of America · John D. Rockefeller Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis · Curt Muller · Oregon Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors Upton Sinclair · Doubleday · Appeal to Reason | confirmed | |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Rufus Peckham · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice John Harlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-10-03 | Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-05-12 | Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention Western Federation of Miners · Governor Davis Hanson Waite · Colorado State Militia · John Calderwood · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency | confirmed | |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers Samuel Gompers · Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions · Knights of Labor · Craft unions | confirmed | |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse Terence V. Powderly · Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | confirmed |