A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S.
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The Eighth Circuit ruled against a Minnesota chapter of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in a dispute over a strike against the world’s largest food distributor, finding a show of solidarity with another union branch was a breach of contract.
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Eviction moratoriums across the country are keeping people in their apartments, but millions of Americans could not make their rent payments April 1. They cannot pay May 1 either. And when the bans are lifted, homelessness will be staring them in the face.
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Workers across America walked off the job Monday demanding better health benefits and worker safety precautions as the simple act of showing up for work has become more dangerous during the global coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center seeks a federal injunction to prevent Teamsters Local 959 dba Alaska Medical Employees Association from striking during the coronavirus epidemic.
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Striking St. Paul teachers are going back to work after union leaders reached a tentative agreement Friday with district administrators, citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak as a factor in the decision to settle their contract dispute.
Read morePublic school teachers went on strike Tuesday morning in Minnesota’s capital city, demanding more support staff in the second-largest school district in the state.
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Days before California voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, officials in Santa Clara County sued an employee union to block its members – 1,700 of which work at the county registrar of voters office – from going on strike.
Read moreUnion Pacific Railroad and Chicago union workers sued each other on Friday over the implementation of a new attendance policy and the prospect of a strike.
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Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets in France on Friday to express their anger over proposals to overhaul the country’s pension system, but there are signs long-running strikes are waning.
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Long-running strikes by trade unions over French President Emmanuel Macron’s push to overhaul the nation’s retirement system will continue despite a compromise offer by the government.
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France was seized by a new wave of nationwide strikes on Thursday by a spectrum of workers angry over the government’s plans to overhaul the nation’s public retirement system.
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Paris Opera has lost more than $13.3 million in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the “Sun King” Louis XIV.
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Nationwide strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to overhaul France’s pension system will enter the New Year and become France’s longest-running rail strike in the country’s history.
Read moreWith no end to the strike in sight, Paris restaurants are at the forefront of businesses facing another bleak Christmas, a year after violent “yellow vest” demonstrations in the capital drove away locals and tourists alike.
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Seeking to calm nationwide strikes that threaten to cause havoc during the winter holidays, French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday signaled a willingness to make a key concession in his plans to overhaul France’s retirement system.
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The French government and labor unions face off Wednesday over a pensions overhaul, 14 days into a crippling transport strike that is hurting businesses, wearing out commuters and casting a shadow over holiday plans.
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A Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles this week is back on schedule after the venue’s worker union announced Tuesday it had reached a tentative agreement with a campus food service provider.
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Health care clinicians across California will take to the picket lines starting Monday and throughout the week at Kaiser Permanente’s network of medical facilities due to stalled contract negotiations for mental health workers.
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France’s prime minister sought to strike a conciliatory note Wednesday as he unveiled a controversial plan to overhaul the country’s pension system, but failed to appease striking unions which vowed to expand a crippling week-old transport freeze.
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