MONTREAL — On Oct. 30, one day after 51,000 striking Alberta teachers returned to work under a government strikebreaking order, thousands of high school students walked out of classes in over 70 schools throughout the province to support the teachers.…
HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists Local 837 have been on strike for three months at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. On Oct. 26 they voted down the company’s…
LOS ANGELES — Some 1,800 nurses at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center and Hospital, members of the California Nurses Association, staged a one-day strike Oct. 30 to demand a new contract. “When USC squeezes…
SAN FRANCISCO — Airline cabin cleaners picketed at the San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22 against the suspension of 14 workers by Unifi, the contractor that hires cleaners for United Airlines planes. The suspended workers, members of SEIU United Service…
EDMONTON, Alberta — On Oct. 28 the United Conservative Party provincial government here voted to order 51,000 Alberta teachers, members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association on strike since Oct. 6, back to work. It ordered classes to resume the next…
MONTREAL — “We will not be intimidated and ruled by threats that attempt to force us back to work,” Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling told an Oct. 17 news conference, referring to pressure by the government to compel them…
FORT WORTH, Texas — After a 40-day strike against Hilton Americas-Houston, members of UNITE HERE Local 23 announced Oct. 10 they had won a $20 hourly minimum wage for housekeepers, laundry attendants and stewards, and increases to $22 by the…
CUMMING, Georgia — After 100 days on strike against the giant national waste hauling company Republic Services, some 30 Teamsters Local 728 members finally returned to work Oct. 16 after winning a new contract. They were the last group of…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — More than 1,600 members of the Professional Employees Association across the province have now joined striking BC Government Employees’ Union members on the picket line Oct. 16, bringing the total number of strikers to almost 25,000.…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente workers marched, chanted and picketed in front of Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center here, part of a broader strike that lasted five days, Oct. 14-19. The strike here ended a day earlier than elsewhere.…
