The pilots' unions have today decided to go on strike.
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"There are many ways to go on strike," Leonard said.
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When they go on strike, the whole country feels it.
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Why is it always the writers who go on strike?
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Who knows, maybe the doctors here would go on strike too!
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Kumail Nanjiani: Yeah, you guys are about to go on strike.
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It's already illegal for teachers to go on strike in Oklahoma.
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When did public school teachers in West Virginia go on strike?
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But the teachers also made significant sacrifices to go on strike.
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They don't demonstrate, they go on strike, and their employers suffer.
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Also helping us … California continues to go on strike every so often.
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, 25,000 educators are set to go on strike today.
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It is illegal for state employees to go on strike in Kentucky.
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On my campus, my classmates are already preparing to go on strike.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Some 19,000 Irish teachers will go on strike on Feb.
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Seven in 10 elementary school teachers were expected to go on strike.
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He compared the tariffs to union workers who decide to go on strike.
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"Verizon has forced us there ... Nobody wants to go on strike," Shelton said.
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THEY don't drink, they don't get tired and they don't go on strike.
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One of Nigeria's main oil unions threatened to go on strike from Dec.
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Google's cleaners in London are threatening to go on strike over working conditions.
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Unionized registered nurses at the hospital voted August 30 to go on strike.
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It's not a reason for teachers, doctors and nurses to go on strike.
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However, in the US, it's more complicated for pilots to go on strike.
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In October, about 80,000 Kaiser Permanente employees are set to go on strike.
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When employees go on strike without union approval, that's called a "wildcat" strike.
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Denver's teachers go on strike; a video shows a reportedly dead Uighur musician alive.
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Union leadership already has authorization of rank and file members to go on strike.
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Danish SAS pilots have also threatened to go on strike, trade publication Check-in.
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The unions also agree not to encourage workers to go on strike or picket.
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Protesters gather outside St Thomas' Hospital in London as junior doctors go on strike.
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We've got to recognize that being able to go on strike is a privilege.
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Unions confirmed they will go on strike anyway, Puls Biznesu daily said on Monday.
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About 2,200 nurses from the University of Chicago are expected to go on strike.
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On Thursday, a majority of Arizona teachers plan to go on strike, despite Gov.
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Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn't paying them enough.
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France's education ministry expects 55% of its teaching staff to go on strike nationwide.
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Public sector union ADEDY said it would also go on strike over the same period.
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And we know what happens when the garbage collectors go on strike — it's terrible disaster.
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It really has to be the final straw for a teacher to go on strike.
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Despite all this, it is often said that people cannot afford to go on strike.
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The group also called for schools, shops and workers to go on strike on Monday.
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But players, concerned that the demands placed on them are excessive, could go on strike.
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They decided to go on strike to demand increased wages and respect for their work.
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Frontier Airlines pilots threatened to go on strike last year after stalled negotiations over pay.
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President Donald Trump's U.S. steel resurgence might be thwarted as more workers go on strike.
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"Maybe we have to go on strike, to be honest with you," he said then.
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Almost 1,600 workers had been scheduled to go on strike if the talks broke down.
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Teachers in Denver on Saturday began voting on whether to go on strike regarding their pay.
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Mr. Goedeking said it was once unthinkable that anyone at the airline would go on strike.
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Student loan borrowers, at their wits' end, are mobilizing to go on strike from their payments.
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How teachers, hotel workers and supermarket cashiers inspired 4303,000 General Motors workers to go on strike.
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"Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn't paying them enough," Trump recently tweeted.
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Women go on strike around the world American women aren't the only ones taking to the streets.
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It's a victory for the airport workers who called in sick and threatened to go on strike.
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Today, women in 18 different cities will go on strike and rally against President-elect Donald Trump.
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Don't just cancel your subscription to Artforum because Knight Landesman is still an owner, go on strike.
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Copper prices rose this week in part because of worries that Escondida workers might go on strike.
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The British Airways pilots union announced that it would go on strike September 9, 10, and 27.
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Meanwhile in Denver, teachers there voted to go on strike for the first time in 25 years.
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Unfortunately, the group had to go on strike again two years later when their needs weren't met.
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Residents have also been expressing their resistance by signing petitions and announcing plans to go on strike.
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What Icelandic women chose to do many years ago, in October 1975, was to go on strike.
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The first coronavirus death in Hong Kong has prompted thousands of hospital employees to go on strike.
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Seattle teachers will go on strike September 5 if a deal cannot be reached on their contracts.
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January 14 - About 30,000 Los Angeles educators go on strike, affecting more than half a million students.
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We couldn't even include everyone in this slideshow for fear our photo editors would go on strike.
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The union has warned that if talks with the company are unsuccessful they could go on strike.
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Members of Transport Workers Union Local 234 had voted to go on strike at 12:01 a.m.
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The Austin bombing suspect kills himself as police close in on him; French travel workers go on strike.
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In addition, 75 workers on Engie's Gjoea field would also go on strike, the smaller Lederne union said.
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But then I understand, I understand why they must go on strike, and why we must respect it.
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" And I'd go, "I don't give a shit what it's about, I want to fucking go on strike.
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Some 40,000 Verizon (VZ) workers may go on strike tomorrow in an effort to push for new contracts.
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Teachers' union leaders in West Virginia announced Monday that the state's educators are set to go on strike.
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UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION SAYS ITS MEMBERS WILL GO ON STRIKE AGAINST GENERAL MOTORS CO ON SUNDAY EVENING
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What matters is that today's economy is forcing workers to go on strike to get a decent raise.
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She inspired millions of students to go on strike earlier this year, demanding governments take action against pollution.
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Unions representing workers in fields as diverse as banking to nursery schools urged members to go on strike.
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Demonstrators began joining overnight protests earlier on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.
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In the strip, gravediggers form a union and go on strike, causing a massive buildup of unburied corpses.
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Separately, workers at Volkswagen's Slovak factory are due to go on strike over demands for a higher wage rise.
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According to the Huffington Post, as of last week, 500 Chicago O'Hare airport workers voted to go on strike.
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So long as there are bad laws, employees will not be happy and we'll continue to go on strike.
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Air France-KLM shares slipped 1.7 percent, after the airline's pilots voted to go on strike over pay conditions.
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Unions have traded accusations of being paid by the opposition and donors to go on strike and cause violence.
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We're going to go everyday into the streets, we're going to go on strike for two days this week.
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About 32,000 teachers and staff members as expected to go on strike if negotiations are not successful, CNN reported.
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Thousands of Los Angeles public school teachers will go on strike Monday for the first time in 220006 years.
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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) said on Monday that workers will go on strike at 6:85033 a.m.
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More than 6,500 nurses in hospitals around California, Arizona, Florida, and Illinois are expected to go on strike today.
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Arizona teachers were inspired to go on strike after watching teachers in Oklahoma demand higher pay earlier that month.
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"Unfortunately, we had to make the decision to go on strike because we can't work safely," the worker said.
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Teachers across Arizona began voting Tuesday on whether they should go on strike to demand more money for education.
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That is designed to give employees the right to challenge the fairness of layoffs or to go on strike.
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In the following days, tech workers at Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have announced they will also go on strike.
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More than 1,000 workers at Diageo's Scottish distilleries were set to go on strike, starting 2100 GMT on Tuesday.
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Trickett had already been forced to rebook a flight from Tuesday after airport staff had threatened to go on strike.
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If you actually give those garbage collectors and nurses and teachers more bargaining power, they can always go on strike.
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The bottom line: Unions representing aviation workers have said that it would be illegal for them to go on strike.
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"I voted to go on strike because drivers need job security," said Henry Rolands, an NYTWA member and Lyft driver.
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Clay, I'm sorry, you were gonna say something ... Clay Tarver: No, just weird, the assholes about to go on strike.
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Pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo encouraged businesses to go on strike "for a day ... or probably for one whole week".
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Meanwhile, Tesla workers in Germany are threatening to go on strike, with some of them arguing that they are underpaid.
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A spokesperson for the prime minister said that the government would go "on strike" until opposition parties allowed an election.
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On Tuesday morning, Harvard graduate students did what they've promised they might do for the past month: go on strike.
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"(But) the strike committee continues to work and we are ready to go on strike again if needed," he added.
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FRANKFURT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - German cabin crew will go on strike from Monday through Wednesday next week at Lufthansa's < LHAG.
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Workers at the SNCF rail authority — whose service will be crucial to Euro 2016 spectators — go on strike starting Tuesday night.
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Between July 27 and July 31, the union will vote to either accept the company´s offer or go on strike.
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SAS pilots in Norway and Sweden earlier announced that they would also go on strike, affecting tens of thousands of passengers.
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Pilots have threatened to go on strike unless there is a robust rescue plan, including payments, in place by March 31.
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And they would no longer be able to fire employees who go on strike, which is currently legal in some cases.
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During the convention, the union announced an increase in the amount of money paid to members if they go on strike.
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Protest plans: Organizers called for more demonstrations on Sunday and for schools, shops and workers to go on strike on Monday.
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Whole Foods store clerks will go on strike Tuesday to demand better working conditions during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, Vice reported.
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Colorado state senators are considering a bill that would punish teachers with jail time if they go on strike, Denver7 reported.
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The strike will last until July 18 and the employees also called for Amazon workers around Europe to go on strike.
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In a skit from the second season, the subjects of the most famous paintings at London's National Gallery go on strike.
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Workers have had to fight for the panic buttons during contract negotiations, and like Bah, they've even had to go on strike.
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DE power generation plants in France to go on strike from June 21.4 to 26, a spokesman for Uniper said on Tuesday.
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The teachers are prepared to go on strike until their demands are met, bringing the public school system to a grinding halt.
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Rather than withdraw from the Modern Language Association (MLA) because it has banned all discussion of BDS, go on strike against it.
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Surrounded by a throng of cameras, they declared that their members would go on strike for the first time in 25 years.
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One who wasn't fired was Rogowsky, despite sources saying at one point he'd tried to organize the staff to go on strike.
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Organizers called on drivers to go on strike to shut down the app-based service in one of its most profitable cities.
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British Airways' pilots' union has voted to go on strike, and the airline lost a legal challenge to try and block it.
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In corporate news, Air France is expected to operate about 75 percent of its flights as its workers go on strike Tuesday.
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So unless the warring sides find a solution fast, LA teachers will go on strike for the first time in 30 years.
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Thomas Marshall, an employee for the company's e-commerce division, called on his colleagues to go on strike to pressure the company.
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This time, BHP has offered Escondida workers just $12,000, one of the factors that has led angry workers to go on strike.
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When he arrived in Yerevan, the capital of this former Soviet republic, the crowds sang, shouted and swore to go on strike.
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Their financial hardship helps explain the anger that prompted thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers to go on strike in recent months.
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Drivers in eight cities plan to go on strike for 12 hours around Uber's I.P.O. to call attention to their low wages.
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A new union, HA Employees Alliance, threatened to go on strike if the government did not close its borders to the mainland.
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The postal group on Thursday proposed a new pay deal to appease its largest union, which has threatened to go on strike.
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And TV and movie writers could go on strike as early as Tuesday, which would immediately imperil the late-night comedy shows.
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Washington (CNN)As many women go on strike around the world Wednesday, some female lawmakers in Congress are standing with them in support.
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As women around the world go on strike in celebration of International Women's Day, retailers in China are jumping on the bandwagon too.
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Inmates imprisoned across nearly half the United States are planning to go on strike today, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising.
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The deal came as teachers in Denver were finishing up a vote on whether to go on strike as soon as next Monday.
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She also preempted the strike by cancelling classes Thursday last week — before the union had officially announced that it would go on strike.
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That helped prompt hundreds of thousands of women to go on strike in June to highlight the nation's poor record on women's rights.
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The main teachers' union announced on Tuesday that its members would go on strike from next week, raising the prospect of more unrest.
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Over 500 Amazon workers at the company's main distribution hub in Italy are planning to go on strike on Black Friday, reports Reuters.
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But union officials say that Marriott remains unwilling "to make meaningful progress on central issues," so workers have decided to go on strike.
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Every gritty part of the neighborhood is being memorialized, so instead to stop construction she convinces the construction workers to go on strike.
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At the same time, however, at a Total refinery, workers voted to go on strike until the government withdrew the proposed labor law.
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West Virginia teachers become the latest to go on strike, following successful strikes by teachers in Los Angeles and Denver earlier this year.
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"If you need to go on strike just to test our mettle, then go ahead," O'Leary said in his Dublin office on Tuesday.
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Munich airport said that its passenger security checks are carried out by a public-sector contractor whose workers would not go on strike.
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New Jersey Transit's rail workers could go on strike if they do not reach an agreement with the agency over wages and benefits.
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Coronavirus pandemic concerns abound, Instacart workers are planning to go on strike following company-wide issues with paid sick leave and safety enhancement.
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Both 2018 and 2019 saw more workers go on strike than any year since the 1980s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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About 15,000 workers at plants owned by ArcelorMittal voted on Tuesday to go on strike as contract disputes drag on, USW International said.
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Workers at Tesla Grohmann Automation—the car company's robotics unit headquartered in Germany, are threatening to go on strike, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Today, thousands of students across the UK have skipped school to go on strike over climate change.
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Today's Global Climate Strike is an offshoot of the #FridaysForFuture movement that has already seen teenagers in a host of countries go on strike.
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If an agreement is not reached, 26,000 workers from 800 firms will go on strike from April 3, the union said in a statement.
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"If the company doesn't offer anything better we will go on strike on Monday," said Leoncio Parra, president of Union 1 at the mine.
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Two unions that represent thousands of Verizon employees say they will go on strike tomorrow morning, after negotiations have failed to produce new contracts.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro believes there is no reason for the country's truckers to go on strike, his spokesman said on Monday.
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The National Aviators Guild, the union of Jet pilots, had planned to go on strike from April 1 because of non-payment of salaries.
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Indefinitely. Verizon's unionized workers have not specified how long they might go on strike, so it could last hours, days, weeks or even months.
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What happened: Fighting for better salaries, free agency, and severance, NFL players agreed to go on strike after Week 2 of the 1987 season.
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At the same time, Congress and the courts have sharply curtailed the ability of workers to go on strike, especially in solidarity with others.
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Reuters reported on Thursday that unions were demanding a 5% pay rise for workers due to go on strike in Scotland later this month.
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About 100 Amazon employees at a fulfillment center plan to go on strike after claiming management have ignored their concerns, as reported by Bloomberg.
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After high school, she worked in a Manhattan sweatshop to better understand the working conditions and help laborers organize protests and go on strike.
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The Writers Guild of America, West, and the Writers Guild of America, East, had vowed to go on strike as soon as Tuesday morning.
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"It is not always possible to take to the streets or to go on strike," the collective said on the website for the project.
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Negotiations will resume after the upcoming Easter holiday, ahead of an April 7 deadline, after which most workers are allowed to go on strike.
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Teachers struggled with their decisions to walk off the job, across the states, where it is technically illegal for public employees to go on strike.
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Some tutorial schools, small hotels, law firms, social welfare workers and nearly 4,000 teachers also said they would go on strike and rally on Wednesday.
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They voted to go on strike after rejecting ULA's final offer on a three-year contract that would have gone into effect on May 6th.
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Pilots at Polish airlines PLL LOT will decide on April 21 whether to go on strike as they demand salary increase, Gazeta Wyborcza daily said.
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Junior doctors protest in Old Market Square, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts on January 12, 2016.
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"With this you are allowed to go on strike from midnight," Munich labor court judge Camilla Roesch told representatives of the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union.
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On Wednesday, drivers in 10 major U.S. cities will go on strike, asking passengers to also refrain from using the on-demand services that day.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Tower of London's colorful "beefeater" guides are to go on strike next month over pension changes, their GMB union said on Friday.
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As early as Tuesday, television and movie writers could go on strike, creating the first major work stoppage in the entertainment industry in a decade.
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The chamber and unions agreed in June to negotiate wages collectively for 2017, defusing a potential source of friction after NUM threatened to go on strike.
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The government is expected to face opposition from trade unions and some professions, such as lawyers, who have threatened to go on strike if taxes rise.
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BRASILIA, April 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro believes there is no reason for the country's truckers to go on strike, his spokesman said on Monday.
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Under the country's system of collective bargaining, workers would not have had a right to go on strike this year even if talks had broken down.
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In the episode "The Nurses Strike," Lois takes a job as a cleaner to support the family while she and her fellow nurses go on strike.
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Thousands of lawyers are expected to go on strike on Friday to protest against new tax measures against their industry and other sectors such as healthcare.
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Mine workers had planned to go on strike to protest at what they described as unfair treatment of union workers who had been fired or disciplined.
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DUBLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Ryanair's Portuguese cabin crew trade union SNPVAC said on Thursday its members would go on strike for five days from Aug. 21.
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Workers at the Philadelphia International Airport voted Tuesday to go on strike during the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to be held July 25-28.
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Thousands of teachers in Los Angeles will go on strike Thursday unless a last-minute bargaining deal is worked out between the union and school district.
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Google employees have pledged $200,000 to the company's engineers if they go on strike to protest its decision to release a censored search engine for China.
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Lederne represents 983 workers on Norwegian oil and gas platforms, or 13 percent of the total, and only 106 of these would initially go on strike.
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"Get ready, because on Monday, we will go on strike," Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, said at a news conference late Friday.
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He also called on schools, shops and workers to go on strike on Monday, after Sunday's protests, in another effort to stop the bill from passing.
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The Mexican government and labor unions have long controlled the workforce with an iron grip, immediately quashing labor unrest by jailing workers who go on strike.
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The Union said about 1,000 workers would go on strike in companies including Caverion, Konecranes, Kone, Outokumpu, Boliden and SSAB , Archtech, Meyer, Ovako and Valmet Automotive.
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Back in the heyday of the labor movement, in the 1960s and 4853s, it was common for private- and public-sector workers to go on strike.
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While public polls showed strong support for teachers' decision to go on strike, lawmakers were less than thrilled with their demands to raise taxes for schools.
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Other public workers, mostly teachers, are expected to go on strike on Monday to push the government to pay 2016 annual bonuses that were due in December.
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With holiday candy production in full swing, 400 workers behind the iconic Peeps candy voted to go on strike and took to the picket line on Wednesday.
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In the case of industrial action, 335 union members would go on strike in the initial phase, which could later be escalated on a few days' notice.
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Unless there's a breakthrough in contract negotiations, the Writers Guild of America, whose members write for TV shows, may go on strike beginning tomorrow just after midnight.
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A Walmart corporate employee is urging workers to go on strike Tuesday to pressure the company to stop selling guns after two deadly shootings at Walmart stores.
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Axios' Michael Sykes writes today that, as part of a wave across the country, North Carolina teachers may be next to go on strike for better wages.
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In February, a labor union representing 8,000 Walmart and Sam's Club employees said they would go on strike unless the company agreed to the 20/753 demands.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 39%Synopsis: Set in 1899, the movie-musical centers around a band of young boys who go on strike against newspaper titan Joseph Pulitizer.
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Monroe special education teacher Michael Jones said he's willing to go on strike if needed -- not just for better salaries, but for the future education of children.
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West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had initially condemned the striking doctors, arguing that police did not go on strike when one of their colleagues was killed.
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Demonstrators from across a wide spectrum of Hong Kong society began joining overnight protests earlier on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.
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"Our membership voted to go on strike if we did not reach a new agreement by midnight on October 31," union president Willie Brown said, NBC 10 reported.
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LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - London commuters face disruption on Friday as drivers on two underground train lines go on strike as part of a dispute over working conditions.
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Thousands more from across various sectors in Hong Kong were expected to join the protesters early on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.
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Demonstrators from across a wide spectrum of Hong Kong society began joining the overnight protesters earlier on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.
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Demonstrators from across a wide spectrum of Hong Kong society began joining the overnight protesters early on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.
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He said his union was among those accused by colleagues of being paid by the opposition and donors to go on strike and cause violence, charges he denied.
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In Kentucky, public employees are not legally allowed to go on strike, but teachers have staged sick outs in the past as an alternative form of organized protest.
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Muntari's ban sparked outrage, as several black players threatened to go on strike in protest of the league's ruling, called to action by former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks.
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Some of Google's contract cleaners in London are threatening to go on strike over what they say are poor working conditions at the California tech giant's UK offices.
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Almost 35,000 employees had been scheduled to go on strike if no agreement was found, and a conflict could eventually have escalated to include more than 200,000 workers.
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As early as next weekend, New Jersey Transit's rail workers could go on strike, requiring many of our Garden State neighbors to find alternative routes across the Hudson.
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Teachers who are part of the Chicago Teachers Union will go on strike Thursday, calling for the public school system to create smaller classes and increase their pay.
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To apply pressure on the government, the doctors decided to waive fees for medical care in public hospitals until their demands are met rather than go on strike.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Ground staff will go on strike again at Berlin's two airports on Thursday, union Verdi said on Wednesday, following walkouts last week over a pay dispute.
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Pilots at Air France also voted to go on strike over pay conditions but have not set a date yet, the head of the SNPL union said on Monday.
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Abcam said it has no plans to go on strike again, but would seek a meeting with the office of the president's chief of staff to voice its concerns.
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SARS said the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union and the Public Servants Association had given it a seven-day notice to go on strike from next Thursday.
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Siemens workers might go on strike over thousands of job cuts the engineering conglomerate plans mostly in its gas turbine division, a leading labour representative told a German newspaper.
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Uber drivers in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco announced earlier this week that they would go on strike Wednesday before the IPO.
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A Walmart corporate employee on Monday sent a mass email urging workers to go on strike on Tuesday, according to a copy of the email viewed by Business Insider.
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One is closed, another no longer bears the Trump name and the third saw 1,000 of its employees go on strike Friday, according to The Press of Atlantic City.
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BALPA said last month that the pilots would go on strike for three days in September in a dispute over pay that could disrupt the peak summer holiday season.
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When hotel workers go on strike, as more than 7,500 are at brands managed by the world's largest hotel chain, it can be difficult territory for guests to navigate.
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It's already illegal for teachers to go on strike in Oklahoma, but Russ' proposal would also make it illegal for teachers to "walk out" like they did last year.
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Denver teachers' strike Teachers in Denver are set to go on strike today, after talks between the teachers union and the Denver school district fell apart over the weekend.
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In the lead-up to the strike, the union and the company had an agreement that the workers would not go on strike — as long as plants stayed open.
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And this winter, he delivered a major one -- becoming the first lawmaker to say aloud what teachers had been thinking: If teachers didn't get raises, they'd go on strike.
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As president, she would repeal three Trump administration executive orders that significantly weaken federal workers' collective bargaining and other rights, and would allow federal employees to go on strike.
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Altogether 338 workers at Statoil's Melkoeya LNG plant, Shell's Nyhamna natural gas processing plant and ExxonMobil's Slagen refinery terminal are set to go on strike unless the deal is reached.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc's wireline employees will go on strike starting Wednesday after reaching an impasse in talks over a new labor contract, union officials said on Monday.
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"If our security is not guaranteed, we will go on strike from the first week of May," Dr. Kalima Nzanzu said, reading from a memo to Butembo's mayor, Sylvain Kanyamanda.
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Freeport McMoRan said in a statement to Reuters it had been notified on March 2 the miners intended to go on strike for an indefinite period starting on March 10.
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State law makes it all but illegal for public employees to go on strike, so union leaders could face arrest and union members could face fines if they walk out.
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Two larger labor unions, Industri Energi and Safe, representing a combined 6,000 offshore workers, do not have the right to go on strike this year under the collective bargaining rules.
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In individual stocks, Hyundai closed down 2.27 percent following news that unionized workers at the company had voted to go on strike in reaction to a breakdown in wage negotiations.
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The Writers Guild of America could go on strike again next month over rising health care costs, potentially disrupting production on some of your favorite TV shows and movies, per Vox.
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Then, if all those people who are doing jobs that don't really matter, say telemarketers, go on strike, then we won't care, so their wages may go down a little bit.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police said on Monday they would go on strike because part of the force will be given tasers for a trial period without proper guidance for their use.
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MADRID, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Spanish trade union UGT has called on ground staff for International Airlines Group's Iberia at Madrid's Barajas airport to go on strike at the end of August.
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The first day of strike action took place on January 7 for 24 hours after members of the FNV Havens and CNV unions voted unanimously in December to go on strike.
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Workers at automotive supplier Robert Bosch in Stuttgart are due to go on strike later on Wednesday, to be followed by Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler and sportscar firm Porsche on Friday.
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Earlier this month, state senators passed a proposal that would not only introduce charter schools into the state but also specify that teachers who go on strike are breaking the law.
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Workers at seven Amazon sites across Germany will go on strike over pay for at least two days this week starting on Sunday night going into Monday, labor union Verdi said.
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Chicago Teachers Union vice president Jesse Sharkey has probably thought long and hard about whether it's a good idea for his union to go on strike Friday; the risks are high.
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SEOUL, July 3 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor's unionised workers in South Korea voted to go on strike over stalled wage talks, adding to the automaker's troubles as it grapples with dwindling profits.
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The 24-hour strike is underway in the restaurant's Milton Keynes and Covent Garden branches, with locations in Manchester's Trafford Centre and London's Haymarket Piccadilly to go on strike next week.
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Read more: Walmart corporate employee sends mass email urging workers to go on strike until the company stops selling gunsWalmart has announced no policy changes in the wake of the shooting.
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"Palladium is up based on the fact that there are 15 mining firms in South Africa, that could go on strike this week," Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures.
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BERLIN, Jan 13 (Reuters) - German trade union Verdi has called on security staff at Munich airport to go on strike on Tuesday in tandem with a strike planned at Frankfurt airport.
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If employees eventually get fed up — and perhaps go on strike, or stop showing up to work for other reasons — that could delay tax refunds no matter what the IRS does.
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SANTIAGO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Workers at small Chilean copper mine Antucoya, owned by Antofagasta Minerals, will go on strike next Wednesday after a contract negotiation failed, the union head told Reuters.
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The previous contract expired at midnight, and the Writers Guild of America, West, and the Writers Guild of America, East, had vowed to go on strike as early as Tuesday morning.
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PARIS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - EDF unions will go on strike again next month if the French government doesn't withdraw a restructuring plan for the state-owned utility, they said on Friday.
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Labour unions this month called for 1,500 SAS pilots to go on strike on Friday if no agreement was reached on wages and other issues after an earlier round of talks failed.
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SANTIAGO, July 28 (Reuters) - The union representing workers at Lider, Wal-Mart Stores Inc's main supermarket chain in Chile, said on Friday they had voted to go on strike for higher pay.
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Pediatric surgery registrar Naomi Wright holds a sign outside St Thomas' Hospital in London as junior doctors go on strike for 24 hours in a dispute with the government over new contracts.
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It was illegal for air traffic controllers to go on strike, but PATCO leadership figured there was no way to operate the air traffic control system without them, so they would win.
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CAPITA: Capita staff represented by British trade union Unite will go on strike after talks with the company over changes to its defined benefit pension scheme failed, the union said on Monday.
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LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Train guards on Britain's South Western Railway (SWR) commuter network are planning to go on strike for most of December, including over much of the Christmas holiday period.
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Also of note was a possible disruption in Nigeria after one of the country's main oil unions warned it could go on strike after an alleged "mass sacking," Reuters reported on Thursday.
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ET. "Palladium is up based on the fact that there are 15 mining firms in South Africa, that could go on strike this week," Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures.
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With two days left before New Jersey Transit rail workers could go on strike, negotiators from the agency and its rail unions met again on Thursday but did not reach an agreement.
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Labour union Solidarity, which represents mostly skilled employees, said its members supported plans to go on strike next month or in January in a dispute over how the company handles investor relations.
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Peña Nieto has insisted that the reform — which includes yearly evaluations of teachers and the threat of losing their jobs if they go on strike — will transform Mexico's dismal public education system.
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The Norwegian Union of Industry and Energy Workers (Industri Energi) and the Norwegian Union of Energy Workers (Safe), representing about 6,000 workers, do not have the right to go on strike this year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways pilots are to go on strike for three days in September, their union said on Friday, in a dispute over pay that could disrupt the peak summer holiday season.
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Teachers in Los Angeles voted to go on strike for pay raises if a labor deal can't be struck between the Los Angeles teacher's union and the school district, per the LA Times.
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The Writers Guild of America, the union that represents television and film writers, could go on strike as early as May 251 — and a big reason why is the cost of health care.
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In the US, Debt Collective—a remnant of the Occupy Wall Street movement—has helped thousands of debtors organize and go on strike, refusing to pay back over $182 million in student debt.
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The Writers Guild of America, the union that represents television and film writers, could go on strike as early as May 294.3 — and a big reason why is the cost of health care.
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Asked whether union members will be dismissed if they do go on strike, Phasiwe said workers would not be fired en masse but that each case will be handled on its own merit.
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LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) - Workers on EDF's 18 billion pound ($23 billion) Hinkley Point C nuclear project in southwest England could go on strike over bonus payments, two labour unions said on Thursday.
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A reported 200 players approximately from 16 clubs in the Spanish Women's First Division, known as the Primera División Femenina, voted to go on strike at the weekend, seeing eight games called off.
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Union members representing Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd's (CP) conductors and locomotive engineers have served a notice to go on strike as early as May 29, according to a union statement released on Saturday.
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Jet Airways shares dropped about 7 percent on Wednesday as its financial crisis deepened, with the Indian government calling for an emergency meeting and pilots threatening to go on strike over unpaid salaries.
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The larger Industri Energi union earlier this week said it planned a strike of 922 workers if the talks fail, taking the overall number that could go on strike to almost 1,600 employees.
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Further protests against the bill are planned for Sunday, and activists have called for schools, shops and workers to go on strike on Monday, in another effort to stop the bill from passing.
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In fact, even as Trump boasts that his steel tariffs have revived the industry, two major steelworker unions have voted to go on strike — because while corporate profits have surged, workers' wages haven't.
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A union of hospital workers, the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, gave the government until Tuesday to heed its demands, which include barring entry from mainland China, before it plans to go on strike.
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But they called off a five-day stoppage on its second day after Goyal formed a committee to look into their concerns so that they "do not have to go on strike again".
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"Big tax shelter" (Sidebar: This claim does not appear to be founded in fact.) "Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn't paying them enough," Trump tweeted in June 2018.
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In an ideal world, workers go on strike to leverage labor power and bargain with employers — often completely stopping business for a few days and almost always at the expense of the company.
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Inspired by successful labor action in West Virginia, Oklahoma's K-12 teachers say they'll go on strike starting Monday unless they get a bigger raise than the state legislature seems willing to offer.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German trade union Verdi is calling on security staff at Berlin's Schoenefeld and Tegel airports to go on strike for up to four hours on Monday, action that will likely cause delays.
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PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - Staff in France's 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike on Thursday as part of protests over a labour reform, a CGT union official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Ride-hail drivers in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles are scheduled to go on strike from 7AM to 9AM on Wednesday, May 23th, according to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
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Workers at seven sites across Germany — Amazon's second largest market after the US — will also go on strike Sunday night and into Monday under the moto "No more discount on our incomes," reports Reuters.
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Both companies had trouble getting their contracts approved by union members four years ago, and if their terms aren't acceptable now, workers have more incentive to go on strike to get what they want.
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Complicating the outlook for Macri is a longer-than-expected recession, inflation that will likely end 2016 at a staggering 40 percent, and politically powerful unions threatening to go on strike for higher wages.
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OSLO, April 23 (Reuters) - About 3,500 employees at Norwegian hotels and restaurants will go on strike from Sunday morning after wage talks with employers failed, the LO confederation of trade unions said on Saturday.
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Thousands of women are expected to go on strike, or leave work early, while some schools will close for the day in an attempt to show what a world without women would look like.
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If we had to come up with a new head-to-toe look for every event, whether it be a secret Santa gathering or a family dinner, our wallets would basically go on strike.
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The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZNA), which has more than 16,000 members, said government negotiators had on Sunday tried to avert the strike by promising to pay arrears but nurses resolved to go on strike.
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BEIRUT, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A Lebanese bank employees' union called on bank staff to go on strike from Tuesday because of safety concerns, the president of the Federation of Syndicates of Banks Employees said.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Around 200 Norwegian offshore oil and gas workers plan to go on strike on June 4 unless pay negotiations lead to a deal with employers, the Lederne labor union said on Wednesday.
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BUENOS AIRES, July 15 (Reuters) - Argentine grains truckers have threatened to go on strike on Monday if they do not reach a deal over hauling rates, the Federation of Argentine Transporters said on Friday.
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PARIS, June 13 (Reuters) - Unions have called for workers at all of Uniper's power generation plants in France to go on strike from June 19 to 26, a spokesman for Uniper said on Tuesday.
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"Maybe we'd go on strike if they tried to take the plant away," said the GM worker, speaking on condition of anonymity because he worried he could be fired for talking to the media.
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"Maybe we'd go on strike if they tried to take the plant away," said the GM worker, speaking on condition of anonymity because he worried he could be fired for talking to the media.
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In 2018, education and health-care professionals were the two most likely groups of American workers to go on strike, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in a big spike over the previous year.
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In 22018, education and health-care professionals were the two most likely groups of American workers to go on strike, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in a big spike over the previous year.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A union representing workers at Walmart Inc's Mexico unit said on Monday it would go on strike next month if it did not secure better pay and conditions for thousands of employees.
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The bill, sponsored by House Republicans, but opposed by virtually every Democratic legislator in Michigan, would limit the ability of teachers to organize and punish teachers who choose to go on strike in the future.
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Cecilia Alexander, chairwoman of Apex Council, the top union for civil servants, said on Sunday workers would no longer hold a demonstration in the capital Harare as initially planned, but would instead go on strike.
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"The CNRM can launch appeals to the people to organize peaceful protests, to workers to go on strike and to the armed forces to side with the people," Sam Rainsy tweeted, along with a statement.
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BERLIN, July 14 (Reuters) - Workers at seven Amazon sites across Germany will go on strike over pay for at least two days this week starting on Sunday night going into Monday, labour union Verdi said.
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OSLO (Reuters) - About 150 oil platform workers would go on strike, potentially disrupting output from several Norwegian fields, if they fail to get a pay deal by midnight on Friday, their union said on Tuesday.
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Altogether 338 members of the SAFE union were set to go on strike at Statoil's Melkoeya LNG plant, Shell's Nyhamna natural gas processing plant and ExxonMobil's Slagen refinery terminal if the wage talks had failed.
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McDonald's workers are planning to go on strike at restaurants in 10 cities across the country next week in an effort to get the company to strengthen its policies against sexual harassment in the workplace.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Refinery operations workers at Phillips 66's 285,000 barrel per day Bayway refinery in Linden, NJ, may go on strike if no agreement is reached ahead of their contract expiration on Tuesday.
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What made the teacher strikes most remarkable, other than their sheer size, was the fact that many work stoppages happened in states where government employees have no legal right to unionize or go on strike.
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London (CNN)Women around the world are marking International Women's Day on Wednesday, with some wearing red to work and others taking the day off to go on strike or join rallies calling for equal rights.
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Thousands of public school teachers in California's Oakland Unified School District — one of the largest school districts in the state, representing 3,000 teachers and more than 100 schools — voted to go on strike beginning this Thursday.
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DUBLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Ryanair pilots in Sweden will go on strike on August 10, the Swedish Airline Pilots Association said on Wednesday, citing management's failure to meet with union representatives for more than eight months.
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TAIPEI, June 20 (Reuters) - Flight attendants for Taiwan's Eva Airways will go on strike later Thursday, the official Central News Agency reported, after their union failed to reach an agreement with the company in pay negotiations.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's public workers on Tuesday said they would go on strike if the government failed to increase their wages to at least $13 per month for the lowest paid employee, as resurgent inflation returned.
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A loose coalition of groups has called on women to go on strike from their paid jobs and the unpaid work of being a woman, and to boycott the entire system by refusing to spend money.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Workers at Royal Dutch Shell's Pernis refinery in the Netherlands might go on strike at the end of the month, after having rejected a proposed labor agreement, Dutch labor union FNV said on Thursday.
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PARIS, May 23 (Reuters) - France's hardline CGT union said on Monday that workers at Elengy, which operates three liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in France, will go on strike from midnight until May 26 midnight included.
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The president of the Federation of Syndicates of Banks Employees earlier called on bank staff to go on strike from Tuesday because of safety concerns, following weeks of mass anti-government protests fuelled by economic grievances.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Cabin crew and other workers at South African Airways (SAA) will go on strike on Friday over the struggling state airline's plan to cut more than 900 jobs, unions said on Wednesday.
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The president of the Federation of Syndicates of Banks Employees earlier called on bank staff to go on strike from Tuesday because of safety concerns, following weeks of mass anti-government protests fueled by economic grievances.
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DE > FRAPORT German union Verdi has called on security staff at Frankfurt other German airports to go on strike on Tuesday to put pressure on firms in charge of screening passengers and luggage in wage talks.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian oil services firms have reached a wage deal with two trade unions, the companies and the unions said on Wednesday, in a year when these unions are not allowed to go on strike.
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And if public-sector unions grow weaker and less effective in winning adequate raises, then teachers and other public servants might get so fed up that, as in West Virginia, they go on strike en masse.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Workers at Brazilian oil company Petrobras approved a plan to go on strike from Saturday, protesting a plan by the state-controlled firm to close a fertilizer plant and fire its 396 workers.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Pilots at Indonesian flag carrier Garuda have agreed not to go on strike, Chief Executive Pahala Mansury said on Friday, easing pressure on the airline's earnings at a time when oil prices are surging.
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The prospect of a cut in Norway's oil and gas output of about 440,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day, or about 11% of total production, if workers go on strike from June 4 also supported prices.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Workers at Royal Dutch Shell's Pernis refinery in the Netherlands will go on strike if Shell does not meet their demands for a pay raise before Thursday night, Dutch labor union FNV said on Friday.
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The main union at BHP Billiton's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, told Reuters on Tuesday that negotiations mediated by the Chilean government with the company have failed and that workers will go on strike on Thursday.
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SANTIAGO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Workers at BHP Billiton's Chilean mine Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, have voted to reject a company wage offer and go on strike, the union said in the early hours of Wednesday.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian oil unions will try to resolve a labor dispute with the U.S. firm Chevron within two weeks, a union official said on Friday, after the unions threatened last week to go on strike nationwide.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Workers at BHP Billiton's Escondida mine in Chile, the world's biggest copper mine, have voted to reject a company wage offer and go on strike, the union told Reuters in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of New Jersey residents who work in New York City would not be able to get to their jobs if NJ Transit workers go on strike later this month, the system's leadership warned Thursday.
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In a further potential disruption to bank operations, a union representing bank staff urged them to go on strike starting Tuesday because of security concerns stemming from protests at banks and depositors demanding withdrawal of their funds.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A crisis at India's Jet Airways deepened on Tuesday as an increasingly worried Indian government called for an emergency meeting, angry passengers demanded refunds and pilots threatened to go on strike over unpaid salaries.
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SANTIAGO, June 30 (Reuters) - Workers at Anglo American's El Soldado mine in Chile rejected the company's last contract offer, a union official told Reuters on Thursday, meaning the union could go on strike in the coming days.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb 219.1300 (Reuters) - A union representing workers at Walmart Inc's Mexico unit said on Monday it would go on strike next month if it did not secure better pay and conditions for thousands of employees.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (Reuters) - Around 13,000 workers at sugar producer Illovo are set to go on strike over wages and other benefits after talks with employers broke down, the trade union representing the staff said on Sunday.
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MCUSTX-TOTAL * SIERRA GORDA: A union at Chile's Sierra Gorda copper mine, controlled by Polish mining company KGHM, could go on strike this week after rejecting the latest offer in contract negotiations, the union leader told Reuters.
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OSLO, May 29 (Reuters) - Around 200 Norwegian offshore oil and gas workers plan to go on strike on June 4 unless wage negotiations lead to a deal with with employers, the Lederne labour union said on Wednesday.
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TORONTO, May 26 (Reuters) - Union members representing Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd's (CP) conductors and locomotive engineers have served a notice to go on strike as early as May 29, according to a union statement released on Saturday.
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The Supreme Court Bar Association had threatened to go on strike after the shooting but Pakistan's Chief Justice Saqib Nisar asked for a protest to be called off for the sake of litigants with cases fixed for Monday.
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Mugabe's government has struggled to pay its workers due to a financial squeeze and earlier this year said it would borrow $43 million locally to pay outstanding bonuses for 2016 after civil servants threatened to go on strike.
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Labour unions had earlier this month called for 1,500 SAS pilots to go on strike on April 26 if no agreement was reached on wages and other issues after an earlier round of talks failed to bear results.
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NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc's wireline employees have decided to go on strike starting April 13, as no resolution is seen in ongoing contract talks, the unions representing its wireline unit workers said on Monday.
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Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) had earlier voted to go on strike, saying that the company had failed to adhere to a pension deal agreed last year, but the court ruled that that ballot was unlawful.
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Employees at the sprawling Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the city's Bronx borough had been prepared to go on strike for the first time since 1986 if there was no agreement before the contract expired at midnight.
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And in Oklahoma, where teachers have not had a raise from the state in a decade, they have vowed to go on strike on April 2 if the Legislature does not act to increase pay and education budgets.
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Alerted to their plight, the souls destined for reincarnation, known as Mayibuye, decide to go on strike until Inyi, the goddess of life, agrees to a trial of sorts for five African leaders they hold responsible, the Shadows.
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Staff at France's 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike on Thursday as part of the wider protests over the governments proposed reforms to employment laws, a CGT union official said, but no blackouts are expected.
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LISBON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Portugal's fuel-tanker drivers are set to go on strike from Monday for an indefinite period, their union confirmed, raising fears about the impact on the country's tourism-dependent economy during the busy summer season.
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Employees at the sprawling Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the city's Bronx borough had been prepared to go on strike for the first time since 1986 if there was no agreement before the previous contract expired at midnight.
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OSLO, June 3 (Reuters) - Norway's oil and gas output will be cut by about 440,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day if workers go on strike from June 4, industry association Norwegian Oil and Gas (NOG) said on Monday.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Workers at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, have rejected the company's final contract offer and agreed to vote on whether to go on strike, according to an internal union document seen by Reuters on Friday.
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Most of the unionized workers at Los Bronces in central Chile rejected Anglo American's collective wage deal, but did not immediately go on strike as local law requires a government-sponsored mediation process during contract negotiations, the company said.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police officers will go on strike for the first time in November in a dispute over pay, their representative body said on Wednesday, the latest sign that industrial peace in the fast-growing economy is unraveling.
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Benchmark copper prices rallied 12 percent in December, partly due to fear of shortages if workers go on strike since many major operations in top producers Chile and Peru have contacts expiring this year, including at top mine Escondida.
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Kermas Energija owns another dock in Croatia, in the southern town of Trogir, where workers there have threatened to go on strike, but management has promised that the July salary will be paid by the end of this week.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Trade union Verdi has called on airport security staff at eight German airports to go on strike on Tuesday, including the nation's largest hubs Frankfurt and Munich, ramping up pressure in its push for higher pay.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Argentina's transportation union announced late on Wednesday night that it would go on strike next week to call for an increase in hauling rates, in a move that could disrupt the nation's grain shipments.
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Air France pilots voted on Monday to go on strike and oil storage workers extended a job walkout, compounding the French government's woes as it scrambled to calm rolling protests against labour reforms ahead of the Euro soccer tournament.
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Benchmark copper prices rallied 22 percent in December, partly due to fear of shortages if workers go on strike since many major operations in top producers Chile and Peru have contacts expiring this year, including at top mine Escondida.
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The idea was simple: Go on strike and participate in a day of action from 1 to 8 PM. Those who couldn't take the whole day off to protest were encouraged to spend their lunch breaks at a rally.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Some 922 workers on Norwegian offshore oil drilling rigs and floating production platforms could potentially go on strike on June 28 unless a pay deal is agreed, Norway's largest oil workers union Industri Energi said on Wednesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France pilots voted on Monday to go on strike and oil storage workers extended a job walkout, compounding the French government's woes as it scrambled to calm rolling protests against labor reforms ahead of the Euro soccer tournament.
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OSLO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - More than 300 Norwegian oil service workers will go on strike on Wednesday after wage talks broke down, hitting operations of five large subcontractors to the country's oil and gas industry, the Industri Energi trade union said.
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Citizens of rich countries, where almost 100% of municipal waste gets collected, take such services for granted—unless the collectors go on strike, as happened in the Belgian city of Ghent in early August, leaving streets in a stink for days.
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The Swedish, Danish and Norwegian pilot unions' joint SAS branch said this month they would go on strike on April 26 if there was no agreement on wages and terms by then, after an earlier talks round of talks broke down.
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Danish, Norwegian and Swedish pilot unions had earlier this month called for 1,500 pilots to go on strike on April 26 if no agreement was reached on wages and other issues after an earlier round of talks failed to bear results.
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NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's drivers in New York will go on strike next week shortly before the ride-hailing company goes public to protest what they view as unfair employment conditions, a taxi union said on Friday.
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Around 2,000 union members are expected to go on strike from May 15-20 at the Tanjung Priok port to protest against an affiliate of Hutchinson Ports, which the union says is bad for the country and for workers' rights.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) finalized its decision on Wednesday to go on strike against the city's school district, the third-largest in the United States, after protracted labor negotiations did not produce a deal before their deadline.
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Health workers in one of the epicenters of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak threatened on Wednesday to go on strike as early as next week if authorities don't do more to protect them.
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The unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff plan to go on strike on April 23 and 24, continuing a series of walkouts since the end of February, and said they would update members on new strike dates next week.
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OSLO, May 29 (Reuters) - Oil and gas production at Norway's Draugen and Gjoea fields will have to close down from June 4 if oil workers go on strike, a spokesman for industry group Norwegian Oil and Gas (NOG) said on Wednesday.
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Read more: Walmart corporate employee sends mass email urging workers to go on strike until the company stops selling gunsIn the aftermath of the shootings, Walmart has faced pressure to stop the sale of guns and ammunition in its stores.
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More recently Mr Johnson has applied the same drive that he applied to Brexit to securing a general election, fixating on a particular date (December 12th) and threatening to go on strike if the opposition parties didn't bend to his will.
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If initial talks break down, a state-appointed mediator will attempt to broker a deal in the final days leading up to an April 7 deadline, after which most workers are allowed to go on strike unless an agreement is found.
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Members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) had earlier voted to go on strike, saying that the company had failed to adhere to a pension deal agreed last year, but the court ruled last week that the ballot was unlawful.
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The UAW said earlier on Sunday its roughly 48,000 hourly workers at GM facilities would go on strike as of midnight on Sunday after U.S. labor contract talks reached an impasse, the first nationwide strike at GM in 12 years.
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Monday morning, tens of thousands of Los Angeles educators will leave their classrooms and go on strike, throwing the weight of the country's second-largest school district behind a growing national movement for better school funding and higher teacher pay.
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The UAW said earlier on Sunday its roughly 48,000 hourly workers at GM facilities would go on strike as of midnight on Sunday after U.S. labor contract talks reached an impasse, the first nationwide strike at GM in 12 years.
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OSLO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Some 9,000 workers at Finnish paper mills will go on strike on Monday after wage talks broke down, their labour union said in a statement, the latest in a series of labour conflicts to hit Finland.
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Fears of government meddling in the company also arose last year when Petrobras canceled a diesel price hike following President Jair Bolsonaro's comments calling for fair diesel prices, amid concerns that truckers could seek to go on strike over fuel prices.
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The Garuda Pilot Association (APG) had threatened last month that at least 1,300 pilots and 5,000 cabin crew members from the carrier would go on strike, over complaints about management, reduction in flight hours and the removal of annual raises.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean teachers will go on strike to demand an increase in salaries and allowances when schools reopen next month for the new term, the biggest teachers' union said on Friday, as public sector labor unrest spreads to the education sector.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Staff at France's 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike on Thursday as part of the wider protests over the governments proposed reforms to employment laws, a CGT union official said on Wednesday, but no blackouts are expected.
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Pilots directly employed by Ryanair and who are members of its Irish trade union voted to go on strike for the first time after the union said last week that the budget carrier had failed to meet demands over new working practices.
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If the government fails to force the management of domestic oil and gas companies and marginal field operators to recall laid-off union members, its workers will go on strike, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) said.
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"We have come to a point where Teamsters are prepared to go on strike for the third time in six years to obtain a fair and reasonable contract renewal," Doug Finnson, president of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, said in the statement.
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The former employee and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit in state court on Tuesday, as hundreds of McDonald's employees in Michigan prepared to go on strike to protest the company's handling of such allegations and demand a labor union.
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OSLO, June 21 (Reuters) - Some 2,250 workers on Norwegian offshore oil drilling rigs and in drilling and catering services on oil producing platforms could go on strike this summer after rejecting a proposed wage deal, the Safe labour union said on Thursday.
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Indicated 0.7 percent higher Staff in the property management division of Vonovia are prepared to go on strike in the coming weeks to protest over wage contract talks and worsening conditions at the real estate group, the Verdi trade union said on Saturday.
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Verónica Lozano, who works at the chain restaurant Sanborns where all the servers are women, said that while she wouldn't have had her pay docked if she had decided to go on strike, her household is dependent on the tips she brings home.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Trade unions in Hong Kong, including hospital and rail workers, are threatening to go on strike unless the government closes the border with mainland China to stop the spread of a new coronavirus that has sent jitters around the world.
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Last week, 93% of players employed by 16 first division clubs voted to go on strike and after a meeting between the AFE, other unions and the Association of Women's Football Clubs (ACFF) failed to resolve the issue the plans were announced.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Trade unions in Hong Kong, including hospital and rail workers, are threatening to go on strike unless the government closes the border with mainland China to stop the spread of a new coronavirus that has sent jitters around the world.
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"The more of us who continue to speak out, take to the streets, and go on strike, the louder our message will be that it is not right for companies making billions in profits to pay their workers pennies," Fight for $15 says.
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Photo: GettyMore than 50,000 union workers in Las Vegas are set to go on strike if new contracts are not settled by June 1, and at the top of the list of concerns for the Culinary and Bartenders Unions is protection against robot replacements.
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The cause of the blast is not yet known but it could have an outsized impact on the flow of food exports from Argentina as unions representing grains inspectors and crushing workers said they would go on strike on Thursday to demand better safety conditions.
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Harvard's wouldn't be the first grad students to go on strike, and in fact are poised to join a growing movement of labor unrest among white-collar workers in industries like tech and journalism, and an increasing number of students at private colleges in particular.
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Sam Rainsy said on Sunday the new CNRM could launch appeals to the people to organize peaceful protests, to workers to go on strike and to the armed forces to join them - although at this stage it has made no specific call for action.
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BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian lawyers announced Sunday they will go on strike for a week to protest the killing of a prominent attorney who had been on the defense team of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and also defended crime figures.
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"The government just needs to change some things, which is why, if we go on strike on a school day, then they'll notice and they might actually do something," said 14-year-old New Zealand student Inese, who did not want her full name used.
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"Iranian oil production is unlikely to be disrupted in the near term unless the oil workers go on strike, and there is nothing yet to indicate that this is going to occur," said Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
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Roadblocks were maintained through the weekend and oil workers announced that they intended to go on strike this week, raising the prospect of a deepening crisis that has laid bare the weakness of Mr. Temer's lame-duck government ahead of a presidential election in October.
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In an article for Elle about the historical context of the strike, writer Sady Doyle asked what it really means for women to go on strike in 2017 — when all women still face discrimination, but some women have opportunities that previous generations only dreamed of.
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In Chile, operations at a copper mine belonging to Canadian miner Teck Resources Ltd will be suspended as workers start a strike on Monday and workers at small Antucoya, a small copper mine owned by Antofagasta Minerals, are also set to go on strike on Wednesday.
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"The government just needs to change some things, which is why if we go on strike on a school day then they'll notice and they might actually do something about it," said 14-year-old New Zealand student Inese, who did not want her surname made public.
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If under-appreciated, currently unpaid air traffic controllers and TSA agents, or concerned pilots or flight attendants through their unions, would simply go on strike or coordinate a massive "sick out," they could quickly bring the economy and the country — and then, Washington — to its knees.
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Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera made the move after a leap in imports of vehicles such as the Suzuki Wagon R, and also increased excise duty on cigarettes after the state raised the salaries of railway workers and some allowances for doctors who had threatened to go on strike.
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The day before, in anticipation of the ride-sharing and technology company's stock market debut, thousands of Uber drivers (and those with other ride-share platforms) in at least eight U.S. cities—including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Chicago—will switch off their apps and go on strike.
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DETROIT, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) said that its members will go on strike against General Motors Co as of Sunday evening, after a lack of progress in contract talks on key issues from wages to health care benefits, temporary employees, job security and profit sharing.
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"McDonald's has a responsibility to provide a safe place to work, and we're going to keep speaking out until the company hears our calls for change," Tanya Harrell, an employee in New Orleans who plans to go on strike, said in a press release Wednesday announcing the walkout.
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Read more: Walmart corporate employee sends mass email urging workers to go on strike until the company stops selling gunsAnother Walmart e-commerce employee at the company's office in Hoboken, New Jersey, told Business Insider that they were not aware of anyone who participated in the walkout at that location.
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Another strike took place on Friday, July 20, affecting an estimated 4,000 passengers traveling between Ireland and the U.K. Ryanair crew based in Italy will go on strike for 24 hours on Wednesday and crew in Spain, Portugal and Belgium will strike for 48 hours on July 25 and 26.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers at the market that supplies New York City with much of its fresh fruits and vegetables were prepared to go on strike as early as Wednesday for the first time since 23 if negotiators failed to reach a pay deal before a contract expires at midnight, their union said.
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We do see white working-class people, but they are the teachers of West Virginia who defied their union and risked their jobs to go on strike for a living wage, and health insurance that didn't require them to wear a Fitbit (I had no idea that second indignity had been an issue).
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Political democracy, won over the wishes of elites, has created avenues to improve the lot of working people through legislation and unions (whose power rests most fundamentally in the ability of people to go on strike and withhold their labor), and that's evened the odds a bit, but that inequality hasn't gone away.
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Related: Mexico's Dissident Teachers Union CNTE Proves Tough to Tame Periodically violent protests have been going on for years, but the tension has increased dramatically in recent weeks as the government steps up its implementation of the reforms, which include mandatory evaluations of teachers, as well as the imposition of sanctions against those who go on strike.
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If workers are Escondida go on strike for 20 days (the midpoint of the lengths of the prior two industrial disputes related to contract negotiations at Escondida during 2006 and 2011) alongside a one-month shipping delay from Grasberg, there will be a combined production loss of almost 100,000 tons, or 1.8 percent of quarterly world mine supply, they said.
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When Symphony founder and CEO David Gurle answered questions about what it's like to build an engineering team in France, it could have been easy to predict the questions — labor law is not flexible enough, French people are lazy, they go on strike all the time… According to Gurle, who is great at storytelling, Symphony has been looking at around 15 countries for their next office.
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Their ideas include a range of measures to strengthen workers' rights to form labor unions and go on strike, an ambitious infrastructure plan of the sort Trump promised but never delivered, the most sweeping revision of antitrust policy we've seen in a generation or two, a crackdown on prescription drug prices, and a big new scheme to subsidize child care costs for most Americans.
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The union has put forward a new proposal in a letter to British Airways Chief Executive Officer Alex Cruz in an effort to reach a deal with the company, BALPA said in a statement here BALPA said last month that the pilots would go on strike for three days in September in a dispute over pay that could disrupt the peak summer holiday season.
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Carter, a democratic socialist who represents the state's 50th District, has supported a bill that would permit teachers to go on strike but continue the longstanding practice of forbidding law enforcement from doing so — which some online (including a Virginia House of Delegates member) have twisted into an argument that Carter wants to punish sheriffs in "Second Amendment sanctuaries" for not obeying state gun laws.
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As comrades around the world go on strike to protest Amazon's workplace conditions, let's take a look at the best Prime Day deals: Amazon Is Trying to Control the Underlying Infrastructure of Our EconomyJeff Bezos's big bet is that he can make buying from Amazon so effortless that we won't notice the company's creeping grip on commerce and its underlying infrastructure, and that we won't notice what that dominance costs us.
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London transport union RMT announced on Tuesday that its workers would go on strike next month — a timing that coincides with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's visit to the British capital.
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With the push for a Green New Deal and other radically transformative climate policies coming most forcefully these days from people of color like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash, and U.S. Youth Climate Strike co-founder Isra Hirsi, and with teachers and healthcare workers increasingly emboldened to go on strike, some observers see an opportunity to grow and broaden the climate movement into something more inclusive and powerful than it has traditionally been.
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What we're reading Trump's Obamacare Replacement Push Has Been Totally Abandoned (The Daily Beast) Why Some CEOs Figure 'Medicare For All' Is Good For Business (Kaiser Health News) Seth MoultonSeth Wilbur Moulton2020 Democrats react to NYPD firing of officer in Garner case: 'Finally' Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report Native American advocates question 85033 Democrats' commitment MORE correct that prescription drug prices can be negotiated for VA, but not Medicare (PolitiFact) 2 High-Profile Democratic Abortion Rights Opponents Are Raising Money Together (HuffPost) State by state Plan to prop up Obamacare emerges as key budget debate for California Democrats (Orange County Register) Activists challenge restrictions in Utah's Medicaid program (Associated Press) 4,000 Mental Health Care Workers At Kaiser Permanente Set To Go On Strike Next Week (LA Times) View the discussion thread.
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