Tag: Strikes

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers and school workers prepared to walk off the job, Mayor Karen Bass was nearly 400 miles away at the ...

The second biggest school district in the US was closed Tuesday as tens of thousands of employees and teachers went on strike over stalled contract negotiations in Los Angeles. Thousands ...

Shocking images have emerged purporting to be of an emaciated physician on a hunger strike while jailed in Iran for supporting women protesting the hijab law.  Swedish-Iranian Dr. Farhad Meysami, ...

National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched ...

Hundreds of journalists at the New York Times went on strike Thursday, their union announced, after bargaining over their contract fell through Wednesday. The historic 24-hour walkout, which reportedly began ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden signed legislation Friday forcing railway unions to accept a labor agreement despite worker objections to a lack of paid sick days — hours before hobnobbing with ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Thursday that she and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had found common ground in the potential rail worker strike that has concerned many across the nation. “A rarity,” ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday to prevent a national rail strike from kicking off next week by imposing a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the Biden White House. ...

Congress has spent the week caught up in a bitter contract dispute between freight railroads and their unions. At President Joe Biden’s request, lawmakers are moving toward imposing contract terms ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to meet with Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton on Friday — just hours before he hopes to sign a bill overriding rail worker ...