Restaurant Worker News

06/09/2026

On This Day In History (2022):

"On 9 June 2022 Indigenous Maasai people in Tanzania from the villages of Ololosokwan, Oloirien, Kirtalo and Arash gathered to protest against land enclosures by the Tanzanian government.
On June 7, Tanzanian security forces and Ngorongoro Conservation Area officials seized 1500 km² of Maasai land and began evicting some of its 70,000 residents. The land enclosure was nominally in the name of "conservation" and in order to establish a luxury hunting reserve for wealthy tourists.
On June 10, security forces used live ammunition and tear gas against Maasai protesters. 32 people were shot, and one 84-year-old protester named Orias Oleng’iyo was "disappeared". Maasai people fought back and one police officer was killed by an arrow. The government then used this death as an excuse to round up Maasai leaders, and eventually charged 24 people with murder and conspiracy.
Meanwhile, over 2000 Maasai people fled to neighbouring Kenya, and protests continued with Maasai people marching on the Tanzanian high commission in Nairobi.
Eventually, in November, lacking any evidence, prosecutors dropped the criminal charges."

Working Class History

06/09/2026

On This Day In History (1902):

"Under pressure from their customers, on May 22nd the Retail Butchers Association once more aligned itself with the boycotters ands refused to sell kosher beef in member shops. Five days later, Orthodox religious leaders, who had mostly remained on the sidelines, formally endorsed the boycott. By June 9th, the retail price of kosher beef had dropped back to 14 cents and the boycott began to lose steam. The retail shops did a thriving business once again.

The kosher meat boycott of 1902 was an early demonstration of the rising political consciousness of Jewish women in New York’s ghettos. Most of the boycotters were not yet American citizens, but they had lived in America long enough to observe the organizing strategies of the nascent labor and women’s suffrage movements. The example set by the kosher meat boycotters was later emulated in Jewish neighborhood rent strikers in 1904 and 1907-08, and in food boycotts in 1907, 1912 and 1917. Many of the daughters of the kosher meat boycotters of 1902, especially those in the garment trades, would soon become the backbone of New York’s labor movement."

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06/08/2026

On This Day In History (2021):

Egg layers Flock management Feed and nutrition (layers) Argentine customs strike on 8 June to hit grain exports Grain exports from Argentina were likely to be affected by a seven-hour strike by customs officers on Tuesday, as the officials press for priority access to coveted COVID-19 vaccinations,....

06/02/2026

Un día como hoy, el 2 de junio de 1863, se produjo la redada del río Combahee, con la activista del ferrocarril subterráneo Harriet Tubman, mujer que se liberó de su esclavitud, y que en esta batalla lideró a 150 soldados negros de la Unión. Es la única mujer que se conozca que dirigió una operación militar durante la guerra civil estadounidense. Ésta fue un gran éxito en el que 750 personas fueron liberadas y las haciendas de varios terratenientes secesionistas ricos fueron saqueadas e incendiadas.

05/29/2026

On This Day In History (1872):

"... on Good Friday, 29 March 1872, farm workers from all parts of South Warwickshire met in Leamington to form the Warwickshire Agricultural Labourers Union and after agitation up and down the country, the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was established on 29 May with Arch as its president. Following the withdrawal of their labour, when farmers and landowners found their reprisals were no longer effective, there was a temporary rise in the workers' wages, whereupon they ceased to organise. Later lock-outs of union members by farm owners became widespread and the union finally collapsed in 1896, although it was replaced a decade later by the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers in 1906."

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Joseph Arch (10 November 1826 – 12 February 1919) was an English trade unionist and politician, born in Barford, Warwickshire, who played a key role in unionising agricultural workers and in championing their welfare. Following their enfranchisement, he became a Member of Parliament.

05/29/2026

Courtesy of Evan Buhler, Montreal Gazette. Workers march on May 23 along Ste-Catherine St as part of the s*x worker strike. I’m hoping that this article will encourage s*x workers to think ab…

05/28/2026

05/26/2026

On This Day In History (1944):

"On 26 May 1944, a general strike broke out in Marseille, Vichy France, following a strike by shipyard workers the previous day, who protested after not receiving their bread rations.

Workers around the city assembled in their factories and decided to continue the strike. Metalworkers, construction workers, public servants and transport workers all walked out, shutting down the city. In particular, railway workers, who hadn't gone on strike since 1921, returned trains to the station and stopped the railways. Women demonstrated in front of the City Hall demanding "bread!". Police arrested numerous workers, but the strike continued. By the following day, newspaper workers had joined the strike as well.

On May 27, Gestapo began an intense wave of repression, arresting 15,000 workers and detaining them at Braibant. That same day, the Allies launched one of the most deadly bombing raids of the war on Marseille, particularly targeting the railways. It killed 1752 people, injured many more and left 18,000 homeless.

The repression and the bombing brought an end to the strike.

However, the German crackdown was short-lived, as Marseille was liberated soon after."

Working Class History

05/25/2026

On This Day In History (2023):

UFCW Local 400 announces a boycott against Union Kitchen. Read the full letter here:

05/25/2026

On This Day In History (1978):

"On 25 May 1978, police in Aotearoa/New Zealand attacked a land occupation by Māori people at Bastion Point, near Auckland, which was demanding the return of the stolen land. The Ōrākei Māori Action Committee had been occupying the land for 506 days before police moved in to evict them, arresting 222 people and demolishing buildings. However, protests continued, and in 1988 the government agreed to return the land to the Ngāti Whātua people."