Michigan State Utility Workers Council

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

UAW Local 2093 said in a release late Sunday the union would launch a strike at the Three Rivers plant at 12:01 a.m.

06/01/2026

On this day in labor history, the year was 2000. That was the day meatpackers at Dakota Premium Foods in St. Paul, Minnesota staged a seven-hour sit-down strike for health and safety. They protested assembly line speed-up, being forced to work while injured and the dreaded “gang-time,” superviso...

05/31/2026

On this day in labor history, the year was 1921. That was the day one of the worst race riots in American history began in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In a frenzy of anti-black violence, a white mob destroyed virtually the entire black neighborhood of Greenwood. Over the course of two days, as many as 300, mos...

05/31/2026

05/30/2026

Operating Engineers 324 will be accepting applications for the OE324 Stationary Engineer and HVAC Technician Apprenticeship programs online beginning June 1, 2026!

Visit https://www.oe324.org/application/ for requirements and for more details!

05/30/2026

On this day in labor history, the year was 1937. That was the day known as among the darkest days for Labor, the Memorial Day Massacre. For days, strikers had suffered arrests and severe beatings at the hands of Chicago police, who physically prevented them from establishing picket lines at South Ch...

05/30/2026

On this day, 30 May 1937, the Memorial Day Massacre occurred when Chicago police opened fire on a peaceful march of striking steel workers, their families and supporters. The police murdered 10, shot, beat and hospitalised many others, nine of whom were permanently disabled.
One woman participant, Lupe Marshall, testified to a Senate committee about her experiences: "I was aware that my head was bleeding. I noticed that my blouse was all stained with blood, and that sort of brought me to, and I started walking slowly toward the direction from which a policeman had just clubbed an individual, and this individual dragged himself a bit and tried to get up, when the policeman clubbed him again. He did that four times… Then he took him by the foot and turned him over. When the man finally fell so he could not move, the policeman took him by the foot and turned him on his back, and started dragging him. As he turned over, I noticed that the man’s shirt was all blood stained here on the side, so I screamed at the policeman and said, 'Don’t do that. Can’t you see he is terribly injured?' And at the moment I said that, somebody struck me from the back again and knocked me down. As I went down somebody kicked me on the side here, a policeman kicked me on the side here."
No police were prosecuted, and the press called it a “red riot”.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10317/Memorial-Day-Massacre