Strikes

Bonnie Kavoussi

U.S. Worker Strikes Recover To Pre-Recession Levels, But Remain Modest

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Job Market, Video, Labor, Labor Market, Strikes, Workers, Unemployment, Work Stoppages, Worker Strikes 2011, Jobs, Work Stoppage, Worker Strike, Worker Strikes, Labor Unions, Business News

As the job market improves, some workers are regaining the courage to go on strike. After dipping to record lows following the financial crisis, th...

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GOP Governor Looks To Stop Effort To Repeal Controversial Anti-Union Law

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH and ANN SANNER | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Political News, Public Employees, Collective Bargaining, John Kasich Union Bill, Strikes, Collective Bargaining Rights, Ohio Collective Bargaining Bill, We Are Ohio, November Election, Ohio, Repeal, Governor John Kasich, John Kasich, Union Rights, Ohio Union Law, Unions, Public Employee Unions, Republicans, Politics News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich and top Republican lawmakers said Wednesday they're offering to discuss weakening a new law limiting coll...

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Starbucks Employees In Chile Plan Strike Over Wages

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Sindicato De Trabajadores De Starbucks Coffee Chile, Global Economy, Strikes, Unemployment Rate, Starbucks Corp, Jobs, Jobless, Economic Recovery, Lunch Stipend, Wall Street Journal, Union, Unfair Wages, Video, Business News

Employees at Starbucks Corp's outlets in Chile plan to walk out on Thursday because, they say, their wages are so low that they can't afford to bu...

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Union Hyatt Regency Workers Hold One-Day Strike

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Labor, Strikes, Hotel Workers, Unite Here Local 1, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Protests, Chicago Business, Unite Here, Labor Protests, Union, Chicago News

Union workers at Chicago's Hyatt Regency launched a one-day strike Monday at the 151 E. Wacker Drive location as they called for better working condit...

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Labor and Capital in the 21st Century: Legacy of the Haymarket Affair

Mark Cassello | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Financialization, Labor, Strikes, Labor Unions, Public Sector Unions, Middle Class, Haymarket Affair, Sean Hannity, Haymarket, Glenn Beck, Private Sector Unions, Chicago, Politics News
Mark Cassello

May 1, 2011 marks the 125th anniversary of nationwide series of strikes that forced employers to begin to capitulate on the issue of the eight-hour wo...

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Why We Strike

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Union of Healthcare Workers, Strike, Nuhw, Nurses, Uaw, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, Strikes, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Unions, Labor Strikes, Unions, Politics News
Leighton Woodhouse

If today's labor movement is going to reverse decades of decline, union leaders are going to need to forget the habits of the last 30 years and learn something new from the rank and file: You don't win a fight by not fighting.

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Kaiser 'Woefully Unprepared' At Meeting With Nurses On Strike

LAist | Andy Sternberg in News on March 11, 2011 9:00 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strikes, Kaiser Permanente La Medical Center, Unions, Nurses Strike, Nuhw, Kaiser Permanente, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Los Angeles News

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente LA Medical Center left frustrated after meeting with hospital management one week after staging a protest on Sunset Blvd. ...

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My Interview With Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou... From the Top of the Acropolis

Steven Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Europe, Strikes, Deficits, European Union, United States, Papandreou, Prime Minister, Austerity, Greece, Euro, California, World News
Steven Hill

Prime ministers are pretty busy people, especially when the capitalist world believes that your nation could be a domino that brings down the rest of them.

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Sarkozy's Unfinished Reform

Rabah Ghezali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Social Security, Trade Unions, Sarkozy, Strikes, Retirement, Pensions, Retirement Age, France Riots, World News
Rabah Ghezali

French public opinion and political culture is at least one ocean apart from those in America. But the French failure to meet the challenge of reform in 2010 teaches America that the longer it waits, the harder and more unfair reform will become.

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Why We All Need a Rally to Restore Sanity

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Anger, Obama, Strikes, Midterm Elections, Terrorism, Christine O'donnell, Politics News
Christina Patterson

"Anger," said a man who used to call himself a Sex Pistol, and now appears in ads for butter, "is an energy". Well, it can be. You could, I suppose, s...

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A Tale of Two Cities: Riots in Paris, Cost cutting in London

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Protests, France, Welfare Cuts, Cuts British Military Spending, Strikes, Budget Cuts Britain, Sarkozy, Pension Reforms, Nick Clegg, Fuel Shortages, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, British Financila Reforms, David Cameron, Cgt, World News
Eric Margolis

The United States would do well to pay close attention to Britain's very real revolution. Washington needs a George Osborne.

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French Protesters Have It Right: No Need to Raise Retirement Age

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Retirement Age, France, Eurozone, Riots, Sarkozy, Strikes, Retirement, World News
Mark Weisbrot

The demonstrations that have rocked France this past week highlight some of its differences from the United States. This photo, for example, shows the...

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Problems in France

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Unemployment, Strikes, Political Cartoons, Labor, World News
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Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Poverty, Economic Stimulus Package, Strikes, Seiu, Pensions, Afl-Cio, Unemployment Benefits, Europe, Unions, Barack Obama, Recession, World News
Michelle Chen

The groups carrying the "One Nation" banner might want to focus a bit less on projecting an aura of middle-class liberal harmony, and instead learn from the mass appeal of European union militancy.

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What Can Fans Do If Labor Disputes Take the Games Away?

David Berri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports, Strikes, Labor Disputes, Sports News
David Berri

ime and time again fans promise that if the players walk, the fans will walk also. Time and time again, though, fans come right back to the games they love.

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Was the Mott's Strike "Victory" Really a Victory?

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ufcw, Strikes, Afl Cio, Mott, Trumka, Business News
Mike Elk

By threatening massive wage cuts, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group was able to force the union to accept small benefit concessions and a two-tier employee system that saves Dr. Pepper Snapple money.

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France Roma Strikes

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tourists And Commuters Bear The Brunt Of Strikes In France, London

AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — French strikers disrupted trains and planes, hospitals and mail delivery Tuesday amid massive street protests over plans to raise the re...

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Sour Apples: Mott's Workers Continue Strike as Harvest Season Looms

Akito Yoshikane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Strikes, Mott's, Dr. Pepper, Dr-Pepper-Snapple, Apples, Ufcw, Labor-Strike, Labor Unions, New York, Manufacturing Jobs, Workers Rights, New York News
Akito Yoshikane

Pressure to resolve the dispute at Mott's apple processing plant in Williamson, N.Y. increased last week when the region's apple pickers said they'll cross the picket line to harvest this year's crop.

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Chinese Workers

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Danziger

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China Labor Troubles

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Labor, Apple, Honda, Unions, Strikes, Worker Suicides, World News
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Historical Precedents for the Strike Wave by Chinese Workers at Honda Plants

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, World, China, Labor Unions, Japan, Strikes, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

There's a special significance to the fact that, thanks to a strike wave at Honda factories in Foshan, Chinese protests are making headlines at this particular time of year.

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China Labor Troubles

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Ronald Reagan Would Think of Striking Senators

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Walk-Out, Gop, Strike, Strikes, Richard Burr, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Political Protests, Gipper, Barack Obama, Capitol Hill, The Gipper, Republicans, Claire McCaskill, Republican Party, Carl Levin, Drew Lewis, Patco, Politics News
Brian Ross

WWGD -- What Would the Gipper Do? Crush recalcitrant Republican senators who would stop the government's business in what was a de facto strike without picket signs, that's what.

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Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Labor, Chicago Factory Sit-In, Strikes, Wall Street, Martin Luther King, Financial Reform, Paul Krugman, Obama, Unions, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Business News
Mike Elk

The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.

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