Labor Disputes & Strikes

Massive Strike at University of California, Berkeley

Students occupy building in protest of tuition increases and worker layoffs BERKELEY, Calif.—Amidst rally cries, a crowd of several hundred students, faculty, workers, and union representatives gathered outside UC Berkeley's...

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SEPTA workers approve five-year contract

By Robert Moran Inquirer Staff Writer With none of the dramatics that marked their bitter, six-day strike against SEPTA, transit workers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a new five-year contract. Members of Transport...

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Philly transit union ratifies labor pact that was reached following strike

Minnesota business by the numbers See Minnesota's top earning companies, CEOs and non-profits PHILADELPHIA - A labor agreement for Philadelphia transit workers has been ratified overwhelmingly by union members. Transport...

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Another side of the Berlin Wall

Twenty years ago, a labor organization was on strike under very difficult conditions. But everything written above also applies to the German Democratic Republic –socialist East Germany–and the fall of the Berlin Wall a few...

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Entrepreneurs Go on Strike

Can Barney Frank Dunk on Lebron? This ridiculous image speaks to the business malaise infecting the economy since Obama took office. The entrepreneurial class in this country looks at the governing class in Washington today and...

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CITY OF LOCKPORT: Payroll-cutting deals struck with 2 unions

Lockport Union-Sun & Journal The Common Council has struck new contract deals with two city labor unions. Significantly, the deals with AFSCME Local 855 and the Lockport Department Head Association will allow the city to reduce...

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Billy Bragg gives free picket-line concert

British musician Billy Bragg belted out labour songs on a cold, rainy picket line outside the Canadian Museum of Civilization Friday, bringing some cheer to workers who have been on strike for nearly two months.

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San Francisco Hotel Group Urges Unite Here Local 2 to Negotiate Throughout the Holidays to Reach...

Sam Singer, Singer Associates, Appointed for Hotel Council Communications Local 2 Unite Here should end its destructive practice of calling rolling strikes at hotels around San Francisco and focus on talks at the negotiation...

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Strike by cargo handlers continues

Work not affected due to alternative measures: official Implementation of tribunal award unilateral: union VISAKHAPATNAM: Strike by workers of Cargo Handling Department of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, in protest against...

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Budget Cut Protests Spread Across Ca

Article covering state-wide campus protests and strikes http://socialistworker.org/2009/11/20/struggle-heats-up-in-california Struggle heats up in California Todd Chretien reports on protests at UCLA and campuses across the...

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