Knoxville Oak Ridge Central Labor Council

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The Knoxville-Oak Ridge Central Labor Council is a regional coalition of labor unions.

We exist to build the capacity of our members and our communities to create economic, social, and political justice.

1522 Bill Williams Ave
Knoxville, TN 37917

10/30/2026

Hey, we know her!!

10/29/2026

10/28/2026

Rest in Peace to a real one

Some people witness injustice. Dolores Huerta has spent her life organizing people to change it.

A labor leader, civil rights advocate, and tireless organizer, Huerta helped build a movement demanding that the people who harvest America’s food receive fair wages, safer working conditions, and the dignity their labor deserves. In 1962, she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Her leadership at the bargaining table and in nationwide boycotts helped turn those demands into meaningful gains for farmworkers.

Her work has never stopped at the edge of the fields. She has championed the rights of women, immigrants, and communities too often excluded from power—demonstrating that lasting change requires more than sympathy. It requires participation, persistence, and the courage to stand together.

Huerta has faced arrests, threats, and violence for her nonviolent activism. Yet intimidation did not end her commitment. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, she earned national recognition for decades of service to people whose contributions too often went unrecognized.

To honor Dolores Huerta is to recognize more than an extraordinary individual. It is to honor solidarity: the conviction that no worker is disposable, no community should be unheard, and no one should have to fight for dignity alone.

Her example challenges us not merely to admire courage, but to practice it—not merely to hope for justice, but to help build it.

10/21/2026

Come hang with us!

10/20/2026

Registered nurses at CommonSpirit Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election.

10/14/2026

Today is the first day of early voting! Make sure to get out and support the pro-union candidates on your ballot!

10/13/2026

10/01/2026

Zero Republican members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation, including Tim Burchett, voted to advance the Faster Labor Contracts Act.

With midterms near, candidates from both parties can prove they stand with union workers by backing the Faster Labor Contracts Act.

09/30/2026

When workers take on one of the biggest corporations in the world, they shouldn't have to do it alone. We’re fed up with unchecked corporate greed and wealthy executives ignoring their workers and breaking labor laws more than any other company in modern U.S. history.

We’re proud to join workers to until baristas win a fair union contract.

Join us and stand with union baristas – take the pledge & let’s show Starbucks that working people stand with baristas until they win. ➡️ BoycottStarbucks.net

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Address

1522 Bill Williams Avenue
Knoxville, TN
37917

Telephone

+18655486766

Website

https://korclc.org/

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