LONDON — Some 150,000 teachers, health care workers, bus and train drivers, and other public sector workers stopped work Jan. 18 in the largest union day of action in Northern Ireland in decades. Members of 16 unions picketed and joined…
BENSENVILLE, Ill. — More than 130 striking drivers at the US Foods distribution center here are getting support from fellow Teamsters around the country. Teamsters Local 705 is sending striking workers to other US Foods warehouses around the country in…
MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22 at Jerry’s Broadway Bakery here responded to the call for solidarity from strikers fighting a union-busting drive by International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee. They organized…
PASADENA, Calif. — Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, struck the Hilton Pasadena and Hyatt Place Pasadena hotels New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The city hosts the annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl football game that…
MANCHESTER, England — After 33 days of strikes, beginning in June 2022, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union voted overwhelmingly to approve an offer from 14 different rail companies covering 20,000 workers. When the strikes began the government…
WARRINGTON, England — Refuse workers here returned to work Dec. 8 after their two-month-long strike won significant gains. “All 19 temporary workers on nine-month contracts are given permanent contracts, with their new contract backdated to when they started in March,…
WASHINGTON — Over 700 Washington Post reporters, editors, copy editors, clerical workers and employees in the paper’s commercial and advertising departments staged a one-day strike Dec. 7. It was the largest labor protest at the company since a bitter strike…
WARRINGTON, England — Labour Party-led local authorities failed in their attempt to use the courts to break the strike that began Oct. 3 by over 70 Unite-organized refuse collectors here. Workers recently voted to continue their strike into December. Union…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Over 85,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente have voted to ratify a contract that will raise wages for all workers by 21% over four years. The contract covers nursing assistants, pharmacy and X-ray technicians, respiratory therapists,…
EVERETT, Wash. — Some 1,300 nurses here, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000, forced Providence Regional Medical Center, one of Snohomish County’s largest hospitals, back to the bargaining table after an around-the-clock strike Nov. 14-19. The company…
