Tag: strike

More than 1,000 schools are closed because of the strike, which impacts 422,000 students.

"Demand that Apple upholds its image with your wallet. Don't shop in stores, don't shop online."

Thousands of workers are on strike at John Deere after the United Auto Workers failed to reach an agreement with the company to improve wages.

“Students continue to experience pain and trauma in our schools due to lack of resources, over-policing, and continuing threats of school closures.”

The workers of Stop & Shop only took to the picket lines after months of contract negotiations. They are mainly asking for their company not to cut their pensions or have increases their healthcare costs.

Stop & Shop will need to make a decision: either invest in people power or continue to lose money.

The Denver teachers walked out Monday following 15 months of negotiations over a controversial bonus-based pay system that educators say leaves them unable to predict their salaries and guarantee financial security.

We ought to see their struggle as “a strike for democracy – against the plans of a tiny clique of billionaires to unilaterally impose their vision for the world.”

"This fight was won with union power AND community power."

Included in the agreement are pay increases for teachers, additional support staff in schools, smaller class sizes and the regulation of charter schools.