In 2009, SEPTA workers went on strike for six days.
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More than a million workers went on strike on Sept.
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Last year around 375,000 teachers and staff went on strike.
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Workers went on strike twice last year over unpaid wages.
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Workers went on strike because of pay and benefit cuts.
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The faculty went on strike in 1403 for five days.
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Junior doctors in Harare went on strike on March 1.
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Nearly half a million Americans went on strike last year.
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Context: The UAW's GM members went on strike on Sept.
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Around 78% of teachers in the capital went on strike.
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They went on strike, then sued, calling the changes unconstitutional.
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First they went on strike, now they're running for office.
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Over 30,000 teachers went on strike in Los Angeles County today.
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The last time Los Angeles teachers went on strike was 20.
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New York teachers went on strike for two weeks in 210.
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In 2010, unionized doormen around New York almost went on strike.
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Unlike Tunisia, where 670,000 workers went on strike just last week,
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The total number of workers who went on strike was unclear.
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GM workers went on strike, and the company closed three plants.
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We do not know precisely how many people went on strike.
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Health workers went on strike after the government reneged on wage agreements.
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In 2010, pilots went on strike for five days over wage disputes.
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Drivers also went on strike all over the world with similar demands.
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To his great surprise and indignation, his army immediately went on strike.
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Teachers in both West Virginia and Oklahoma went on strike in 1990.
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The smaller Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra went on strike earlier this month.
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At a certain point the workers got mad and went on strike.
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In September, they went on strike again, this time in 10 cities.
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About 223,363 Verizon workers went on strike at 236 am Wednesday morning.
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GM gave away the farm — and the UAW went on strike, anyway
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Led by Samuel Sharpe, they went on strike for better working conditions.
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But in 2007, Hollywood writers went on strike, and work dried up.
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In September of that year, most Boston police officers went on strike.
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So we went on strike until WNET hired a black executive producer.
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Several thousand health care workers went on strike demanding the same. Mrs.
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United Auto Workers (UAW) members went on strike at GM on Sept.
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In June, teachers went on strike for three weeks in Union City.
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Just over a century ago, the city of Seattle went on strike.
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Drivers similarly went on strike ahead of Lyft's IPO roadshow in March.
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United Auto Workers (UAW) members at GM went on strike on Sept.
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When Hollywood writers went on strike in late 2007, a curious thing happened.
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A few weeks ago, public school educators in West Virginia went on strike.
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They went on strike in March to demand better working conditions during Ramadan.
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The following day, journalists in the capital went on strike against the police.
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Its employees went on strike during Prime Day to protest poor working conditions.
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In total, 1,409 pilots across the three countries went on strike on Friday.
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In response, Lyft drivers went on strike in San Francisco and San Diego.
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Bits About 36,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast went on strike Wednesday.
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Members of its Cast Members Union went on strike last week, disrupting rides.
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In July, 2008, more than a hundred and fifty workers went on strike.
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Earlier on Sunday 850 maintenance workers at five GM facilities went on strike.
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Furious taxi drivers and bus drivers went on strike, blocking hundreds of crossroads.
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In September 2018, they went on strike again, this time in 10 cities.
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In October, Instacart shoppers went on strike for 72 hours across the nation.
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Warehouse workers went on strike during Amazon Prime Day to protest labor conditions.
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Roughly 48,000 United Auto Workers with the automaker went on strike on Monday.
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Amazon warehouse workers, Uber drivers, and Instacart grocery delivery workers went on strike.
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They went on strike after some employees were fired for forming a union.
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Vinson thinks it started in 403, when the Writers Guild went on strike.
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How would you feel if they went on strike for better working conditions?
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Perhaps if the police simply stayed home everyday [and] went on strike, maybe.
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Some 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike for about two weeks in August 2011.
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European Amazon warehouse workers went on strike during Prime Day 2018 with similar demands.
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Teachers went on strike in 2016 through massive "sick-outs" to protest school conditions.
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Some of its workers in Europe went on strike to protest poor working conditions.
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So it was on September 23th, when the country's civil servants went on strike.
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Last week, more than 2,000 teachers in Denver went on strike for three days.
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Journalists at the paper went on strike; dissidents gathered outside its offices in Guangzhou.
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Pilots in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands went on strike on Aug.
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Earlier this week, teachers in Park County, Colorado, went on strike for higher wages.
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Thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike in Los Angeles on Monday.
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There, a different local, Local 6, went on strike for 44 days in 2011.
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Warehouse workers in Italy also went on strike over the company's coronavirus safety measures.
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Lion attacks were so bad that Indian laborers went on strike, Mr. Randiga said.
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That's why GM workers went on strike the minute their contract expired at midnight.
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Prison guards went on strike and were replaced by police officers in most prisons.
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In mid-February, more than 2,000 teachers in Denver went on strike for three days.
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More than 30,000 teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District went on strike Jan.
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Despite the pay raise, teachers went on strike for nine days, demanding more education funding.
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The doctors even went on strike (for more than three weeks) when the system launched.
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They went on strike to protest their low pay and the subpar conditions for students.
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The union went on strike in 1994 to prevent the imposition of a salary cap.
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Hundreds of Columbia University teaching and research assistants went on strike in August, for example.
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In March, workers went on strike for three hours to call for better working conditions.
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First lawyers went on strike against the erosion of the English-style common-law system.
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In March, about 17,000 AT&T wireline workers in California and Nevada went on strike.
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It marked the first time teachers in Los Angeles went on strike in 30 years.
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Workers went on strike for 10 days late last month in a dispute over conditions.
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Health care workers went on strike, demanding the semiautonomous region close its borders with China.
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But more than 903,500 medical workers went on strike to demand a fully closed border.
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Thousands of people across Europe went on strike and protested against Amazon on Black Friday.
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Afterward, the sanitation workers of Memphis went on strike for improved wages and working conditions.
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed on Thursday as its employees went on strike.
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Union workers went on strike at G.M. for 40 days before that deal was reached.
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The mill workers organized, went on strike and formed America's first union of working women.
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More than 80% of drivers went on strike, and 90% of regional trains were canceled.
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Tens of thousands of General Motors workers officially went on strike at 11:59 p.m.
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Workers in several countries went on strike on Black Friday last year to protest working conditions.
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In September 2018, McDonald's workers across the U.S. went on strike in protest of sexual harassment.
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Drivers similarly went on strike ahead of Lyft's IPO to voice concerns over recent pay cuts.
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But before those workers went on strike, they made sure the business was taken care of.
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Thousands of women across Switzerland went on strike Friday to protest gender inequality in the country.
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Last week, hundreds of Uber drivers went on strike ahead of the company's much-anticipated IPO.
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Pilots at Lufthansa went on strike again, causing the German airline to cancel thousands of flights.
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Some 3,600 workers at six plants went on strike against heavy truck maker of Mack Trucks.
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But the company was offering that even before the union went on strike on Sept. 16.
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In 1975, Iceland ground to a halt when a majority of its women went on strike.
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The nurses went on strike on Monday over unpaid allowances and other issues, leaving hospitals understaffed.
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Last spring in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky they went on strike to demand better funding.
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Banks were closed on Monday and the main labour union went on strike, threatening further paralysis.
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Miners from the same union went on strike at Cerro Negro in 2015 over working conditions.
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About 2108.13,1.3 landline and cable employees in the Eastern United States went on strike in April.
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Days after the announcement, 165,000 miners, led by the National Union of Mineworkers, went on strike.
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Truck drivers who went on strike in May for higher wages restarted their strike last week.
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The last time the UAW's GM workers went on strike, in 235, they were 2000,22865 strong.
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Hundreds of Uber drivers went on strike ahead of the company's much-anticipated IPO in May.
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In November, workers in both Germany and Italy went on strike over pay and working conditions.
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But after teachers went on strike Tuesday, the House postponed a vote on the bill indefinitely.
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Suddenly, they were subject to performance evaluations, and those who went on strike risked losing their jobs.
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When these punchers and computer operators went on strike in the 1970s, their importance became vividly clear.
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In response, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) went on strike at the mine on Nov.2.
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In Oklahoma, teachers too went on strike, earning a $212,25 pay raise signed by the state's governor.
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When the French government sought to loosen the code in March, thousands of workers went on strike.
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The workers, who are members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, went on strike on Sept.
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This holiday season, hundreds of pilots that operate Amazon's planes went on strike to protest understaffing issues.
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Result: On March 18, 03, more than 10,000 postal workers went on strike in New York City.
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Earlier this month doctors, teachers and nurses went on strike, demanding to be paid in real dollars.
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France's four main railway unions went on strike in protest against reforms planned by President Emmanuel Macron.
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Many of its journalists this month went on strike for a week to protest editorial job cuts.
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Deep roots GM's Lordstown plant attracted national attention in 1972 when the plant's employees went on strike.
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In 2018, a record number of American workers went on strike; the most since 1986, Vox reported.
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At times, protesters stopped collecting trash, went on strike at nuclear power plants and blocked gas refineries.
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In 1975, Icelandic women across the country famously went on strike, demanding more equitability in Icelandic society.
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British Airways pilots went on strike for 48 hours in September, grounding 1,700 flights in a dispute.
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On Friday, student activists around the globe went on strike to demand more aggressive climate change policies.
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In 2000, workers across the city went on strike to try and win an eight-hour workday.
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City workers — garbage collectors, hospital doctors, police officers — went on strike, heedless that it made them lawbreakers.
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In 28500, more workers in the United States went on strike than in any year since 6900.
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Some 48,000 union members went on strike early Monday after negotiations reached an impasse over the weekend.
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Workers at VW's Slovak factory went on strike two years ago to get a big pay raise.
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UAW strike Members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike against General Motors last night.
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The stores opened later the same day that thousands of students across the city went on strike.
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Shifting winds in education After Los Angeles teachers went on strike last month, attention turned to Sacramento.
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Earlier this year, Los Angeles teachers went on strike for six days, which cost more than $125 million.
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Illinois' finances are doing much better than they were in 43 when the teachers last went on strike.
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Chicago teachers went on strike twice, once in 215 and again in 2100, gaining nation-leading pay increases.
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On July 15, 1959, after a series of failed back-and-forth offers, 500,000 workers went on strike.
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Workers at Eskom, which generates more than 90 percent of the country's power, went on strike in June.
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Last year on International Women's Day, women in more than 50 countries around the world went on strike.
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When an all-female workforce went on strike, a man was brought in to negotiate with the boss.
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In '863, the team went on strike prior to their final game over a dispute with their manager.
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The workers at the Taj Mahal went on strike and management brought in temporary workers, commonly called scabs.
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About 300,000 students have been out of school since Thursday when the system's 25,000 teachers went on strike.
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Such poor conditions are part of the reason that thousands of teachers went on strike on April 22008th.
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Thousands of mill workers, mostly women went on strike there to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
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Nurses, meanwhile, went on strike in four states this summer, in part demanding better nurse-to-patient ratios.
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The strikes began when coal workers went on strike to call for ten-hour workdays in early June.
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In 1974, truckers went on strike in the US for as long as three days in some areas.
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Thousands of service workers at the University of California went on strike Monday to call for higher wages.
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Thousands of textile mills and retailers across the country went on strike this week to protest the tax.
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Black sanitary workers, known as "bucket boys," went on strike in 21994, followed by black mineworkers in 21990.
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So West Virginia teachers went on strike, shutting down all public schools in the state for nine days.
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After the assault in Una, Dalits went on strike, leaving hundreds of dead cows rotting on the streets.
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West Virginia teachers' strike Last year, West Virginia teachers went on strike and won a 5% pay raise.
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This month, drivers in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, went on strike after fares were slashed by 23 percent.
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Some Amazon workers in Italy and Germany went on strike on Black Friday to protest for higher pay.
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Teachers in these states went on strike anyway, and most of them got the pay raises they wanted.
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Some teachers went on strike because it was so difficult to live on an educator's salary in Denver.
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In Germany employees went on strike, and do not plan to return to work until after Cyber Monday.
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Illinois's finances are doing much better than they were in 2012 when the teachers last went on strike.
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The unions went on strike eight days earlier after initial negotiations over a new collective labor contract failed.
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Earlier in the week, workers went on strike in the country's oil refineries, triggering a huge fuel shortage.
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West Virginia teachers went on strike for 21 days, winning a battle for a 22016 percent pay raise.
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On Tuesday, Philadelphia's transit workers went on strike, halting all bus, trolley, and rail service in the city.
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NAIROBI, April 28 (Reuters) - Kenya Airways said on Thursday it had cancelled 10 flights after pilots went on strike.
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The government launched an investigation against WRP after workers, who are mainly from Bangladesh and Nepal, went on strike.
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Taxi drivers in New York went on strike on Saturday night, refusing to pick up any passengers from JFK.
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Since pilots went on strike on April 26 over wages and conditions, SAS has cancelled more than 4,13 flights.
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Last year, they also went on strike for 72 hours in demand of a better tip and fee structure.
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In 1979, a group of comedians went on strike for several weeks, and Ms. Shore agreed to pay them.
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His first day as mayor, in 1966, the transit workers went on strike, bringing city life to a crawl.
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So West Virginia teachers went on strike, shutting down all 680 public schools in the state for nine days.
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Some German and Polish Amazon workers at other fulfillment centers also went on strike last week on Prime Day.
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Nearly 50,000 hourly GM workers went on strike starting September 16, two weeks before the end of the quarter.
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Earlier this year, women across Spain went on strike and held hundreds of rallies to protest against gender inequality.
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In total, 1,409 pilots from a total of around 1,953 across the three countries went on strike on Friday.
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In 2016 junior doctors went on strike for the first time in 40 years, and their grievances simmer on.
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SAS pilots in the three countries went on strike after talks over wages, careers and work schedules broke down.
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In May oil workers in Kuwait went on strike against a proposed overhaul of the public sector payroll system.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels Airport canceled 184 flights on Friday after baggage handlers complaining about working conditions went on strike.
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The agreement grants doctors increased allowances, outlines a promotion plan and protects doctors who went on strike from retribution.
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"The Louvre is suffocating," said a statement from the union of the museum's security staff, who went on strike.
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The complaint comes three weeks after about 40,000 unionized employees of Verizon went on strike after contract negotiations failed.
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Teachers in the state also went on strike last year to protest low wages and increasing health-care costs.
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Doctor burnout reached an all-time high in 2019, and nurses went on strike in four states this summer.
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Unions went on strike last year over the minimum wage, initially demanding a rise to 50,000 naira a month.
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In 2012, thousands of journalists from MBC, KBS, YTN, and other major media outlets went on strike in protest.
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When PDVSA professionals went on strike in 2002-03, Chavez fired 18,000 of them (40 percent of the workforce).
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To take one example: In 2000, bus and rail drivers for the LA Metropolitan Transportation Agency went on strike.
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Workers at French state-controlled utility EDF's Cordemais 1,200 MW 4 and 5 units went on strike on Jan.
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In response the rail unions went on strike and, after three weeks, Mr. Juppé had to withdraw his proposals.
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Employees at the same fulfillment center went on strike again during the company's annual Prime Day sale in July.
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And more than 2,000 teachers in Denver went on strike in February for the first time in 25 years.
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In 2007, the writers went on strike against the studios, and they nearly walked out again two years ago.
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Amazon warehouse workers in Italy went on strike in outrage at the firm's response to 2 staff contracting coronavirus.
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Months before, when 20,000 AT&T workers went on strike for four days over contract negotiations, Trump said nothing.
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In 2018, Mr. Martín and nearly 8,000 of his Marriott colleagues went on strike, in part over technological concerns.
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The company&aposs workers went on strike and criticized the app over the last two years for slashing wages.
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The Virginia rally is the first big protest since 30,000 educators in Los Angeles went on strike this month.
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Workers at Exxon Mobil went on strike this week to protest against the sacking of 150 staff in December.
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They briefly went on strike on September 20.3th to protest against a dearth of dollars at the official rate.
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It was mid-May, and, at some point during my trip over the Atlantic, the French went on strike.
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Most pilots who flew for British Airways went on strike earlier this week, which halted nearly all airline operations.
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It comes just days after British Airways canceled all flights for two days as its pilots went on strike.
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Then, watch the video above documenting the 63,000 Los Angeles public-school teachers who went on strike on Jan.
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A record number of workers went on strike last year out of frustration with stagnant wages and benefit cuts.
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Thousands of children and teenagers across the world went on strike Friday to demand adults take action against climate change.
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In April, 31,000 supermarket employees went on strike in the Northeast to reverse proposed pay cuts and rising insurance premiums.
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SAS has cancelled more than 4,000 flights since pilots went on strike on April 13 over wages and working conditions.
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And the pickpocketing round I.M. Pei's pyramid entrance has become so notorious that in April the staff went on strike.
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On Prime Day in July, a handful of Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, went on strike.
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Even when two years later police officers went on strike, and 200 were murdered, Mr Hartung did not back down.
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The central bank employees went on strike on Monday to protest against draft budget proposals that would cut their pay.
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Earlier this week, 19973,000 Verizon workers — most of whom work in the company's ailing landline phone sector — went on strike.
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Women across Poland went on strike Monday as part of ongoing protests against proposed legislation that would effectively ban abortion.
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Kenyan doctors in public hospitals went on strike from December to March, demanding a pay increase and improved working conditions.
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Women across the country went on strike to protest the persistent gender pay gap, which currently stands at 22016 percent.
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In Los Angeles, teachers went on strike, pushing back against charter school expansions, with support from presidential hopefuls including Sens.
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Truck owners went on strike last week in a bid to force the adoption of mandatory minimum grain hauling rates.
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Some 36,000 Verizon workers went on strike on the East Coast, resisting proposed cuts to pension benefits and easier outsourcing.
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The government imposed an excise duty in 2012, but was forced to roll it back after jewellers went on strike.
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Workers at the Louvre in Paris went on strike Monday over overcrowding, closing the famed art museum, according to NPR.
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Female soccer players in Spain's top division went on strike over the weekend after negotiations broke down over minimum pay.
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On April 17, Smovengo's workers went on strike asking for better working conditions, particularly for overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts.
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Those attacks began as early as 2005, when a quarter of Patanjali's workers went on strike, claiming they'd been underpaid.
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They came out to support the roughly 48,000 members with GM who went on strike effective 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
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In April, 31,000 supermarket employees went on strike in the Northeast to reverse proposed pay cuts and rising insurance premiums.
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Last month, 31,000 supermarket employees went on strike in the Northeast to reverse proposed pay cuts and rising insurance premiums.
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So two weeks after the new wage laws went into effect, on January 1, about 30,000 workers went on strike.
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The University of California, Santa Cruz fired 54 teaching assistants (TAs) Friday after they went on strike for higher wages.
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Parisian commuters faced travel misery on Friday as metro workers went on strike over plans to reduce their retirement privileges.
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More than 6,000 hospital workers went on strike this week to protest Lam's decision not to close Hong Kong's borders.
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Last year, Marriott workers went on strike, as did other hotel workers in Chicago and health care workers in California.
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When Chicago teachers went on strike in 2012, they had some of the same concerns that teachers do in 2018.
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Friday marked the first payday without a check from GM since its union members went on strike two weeks ago.
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Teachers in Chicago and Los Angeles also went on strike this year and secured more resources, especially for underfunded schools.
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The news comes three days after about 48,000 hourly workers went on strike across GM facilities in the United States.
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The airline canceled almost all of its flights for today and tomorrow after the British pilots union went on strike.
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In 2018, a record number of employees went on strike: School teachers, hotel workers, health care workers — even Google employees.
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Lyft drivers also went on strike in May to protest what they called poor work conditions and low pay rates.
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British Airways warned of further consequences for those who went on strike, but said all customers would reach their destinations.
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These 7 occupations would suffer most if all women really went on strike These 7 occupations would suffer most if all women really went on strike If every woman in America refuses to go to work Wednesday for A Day Without a Woman, it will be no surprise when the country grinds to a halt.
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This year, teachers in Los Angeles and Oakland, California, went on strike, demanding increased wages, larger school budgets and smaller classrooms.
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Last October, hundreds of drivers went on strike in Mumbai and New Delhi, demanding higher fares to meet rising fuel costs.
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In June, University of Chicago students went on strike for three days to pressure their school to voluntarily recognize their union.
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However, in Hong Kong, hospital staff went on strike on Monday, demanding the government there close the border with China completely.
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As workers went on strike across the country, they urged businesses and hotel guests to cancel their reservations at the hotels.
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Last month, some Uber drivers in London went on strike demanding that the company lower its commissions from 25% to 15%.
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They went on strike to demand not only better compensation but also that officials deemphasize standardized tests in determining teacher pay.
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In July, Amazon workers in Europe went on strike to protest what they described as hot, windowless, soul-crushing work environments.
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Workers went on strike at Loulo and Gounkoto in April over bonus payments but the standoff was resolved within a day.
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Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike until 12 noon (1000 GMT) and many held solidarity rallies outside Teva facilities.
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Oil prices retraced some of the losses after reports said oil and gas workers in Kuwait went on strike starting Sunday.
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Across the country and world, many women went on strike to prove how much the economy would lose without their participation.
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Junior doctors in England went on strike again in their prolonged dispute with the government over new contracts covering weekend work.
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The demonstrations began with educators in West Virginia, who went on strike for more than a week to demand pay raises.
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Educators nationwide this year went on strike for better pay, but tightening school budgets have clearly affected more than teacher salaries.
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Schools in Oklahoma were closed for several days in April as teachers went on strike from April 2 through April 12.
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The city was plunged further into chaos as workers from across about 20 sectors, including the civil service, went on strike.
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Soon, workers at grocery stores like Sam's Club, Walmart, and even the city's main milk distributor, Leche Vaquita, went on strike.
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Thousands of Marriott employees around the nation went on strike last year for weeks, eventually winning concessions from the hotel chain.
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In May 2018, truck drivers in Brazil went on strike for a week, and it "paralyzed" the country in unexpected ways.
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Around 3000 members of the Oakland Education Association went on strike with picket lines at all 86 of the district's schools.
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Unite Here Local 54's standoff with Icahn began last July when more than 85033,000 casino industry members went on strike.
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In the past, the government has deployed army medics to work at major public hospitals when junior doctors went on strike.
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At the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, comics went on strike for the right to get paid.
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After months of tension over issues including salaries and health insurance costs, the state's public schoolteachers went on strike Feb. 22.
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United Auto Workers members went on strike starting late Sunday as the union failed to reach a deal with General Motors.
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When teachers here last went on strike, in 1990 for four days, they won a raise and limitations on class sizes.
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Democratic candidates often show up at picket lines; several did so just last month when Stop & Shop workers went on strike.
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Sometimes this clashed with the wishes of white male members, who occasionally went on strike against the inclusion of black members.
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On Saturday, about 3,600 U.A.W. members went on strike at Mack Truck plants in three states, demanding better wages and benefits.
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Factory workers immediately went on strike to protest the new owner's push for mandatory overtime and pay cuts for new hires.
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Uber workers went on strike to protest unfair pay, poor working conditions, and an overall lack of transparency from the company.
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In February, drivers went on strike to protest fare cuts that they said made it difficult for them to break even.
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Shares of China Airlines were down 0.1 percent after the company's flight attendants went on strike over changes to working conditions.
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When the Writers Guild of America went on strike in 2007, he says, demand increased for unscripted programs, including clip shows.
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And in late November, about 100,000 Peruvian healthcare workers went on strike to demand better services and medications for their patients.
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In May, drivers in a dozen cities around the world went on strike, pushing for better pay and improved working conditions.
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Teachers went on strike to demand higher, stable salaries, because the district uses unpredictable bonuses to compensate for low base pay.
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The teachers went on strike February 21, saying they are unable to afford the soaring cost of living near Silicon Valley.
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In September, McDonald's workers in 10 cities went on strike to protest harassment, after they said the company failed to address complaints.
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On Monday, women across the country went on strike to protest the persistent gender pay gap, which currently stands at 22016 percent.
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Fifty-thousand hourly workers at GM went on strike in September to protest, among other things, GM's closure of several US plants.
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German retribution against Dutch railway workers who went on strike to aid the assault led to a famine that killed over 20,000.
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Teachers in Los Angeles, the country's second-biggest school district, went on strike in January for the first time in 30 years.
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In Los Angeles, teachers went on strike, pushing back against charter school expansions, with support from presidential hopefuls including Harris and Sen.
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Allegations of wage theft were widespread last year at O'Hare, and airport workers went on strike to protest low pay in November.
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This year doctors and teachers went on strike for months over work conditions, while the unemployment rate remains at around 11 percent.
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During a similar event in Iceland in 1975, 90 percent of the nation's women went on strike to advocate for equal rights.
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HISTORY of a sort was made on April 26th and 27th when over 20,000 junior hospital doctors in Britain went on strike.
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Rail workers nearly went on strike this year, and two major unions are in negotiations that could still result in a strike.
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That goal emerged in New York in 2012, when 200 fast-food workers went on strike demanding higher pay and a union.
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The United Teachers Los Angeles officially went on strike on Monday after months of failed negotiations over pay, staffing, and class sizes.
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The nurses went on strike last Monday to press home demands for improved allowances and irregular salary grading system, its union said.
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The last time the United Auto Worker went on strike against GM in 2007 was one of the largest in US history.
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It is unsurprising that when Los Angeles teachers went on strike earlier this year, increasing teacher pay was not their top priority.
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The United Teachers Los Angeles went on strike Monday following months of failed negotiations over pay raises, class sizes and school staffing.
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Around 16,000 nurses went on strike Monday to press home demands for improved allowances and irregular salary grading system, its union said.
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" Some went on strike by refusing to go for mandatory sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing "until we can work free from harassment.
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In the face of a good offer from General Motors, the United Auto Workers' 50,000 members still went on strike last week.
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Nearly 50,2.83 General Motors went on strike last Sunday, beginning the largest labor action against the automaker in more than a decade.
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On Monday, women went on strike and marched through the streets wearing black as a sign of mourning for their reproductive rights.
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He was involved in the Reagan administration's legal fight with the air traffic controllers' union, which went on strike illegally in 1981.
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In July, Amazon workers in Europe went on strike to protest what they describe as hot, windowless, soul-crushing work environments. Sen.
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In March of this year, students in more than 21.5 countries went on strike from school to demand action on climate change.
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When 30,000 Los Angeles teachers went on strike on Monday, prominent Democrats — and potential presidential candidates — lined up to give their blessings.
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More: Uber drivers around the world went on strike yesterday to protest employment conditions before the I.P.O. Here's how it played out.
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Those rehearsals were a catastrophe: The chorus went on strike, the orchestra couldn't play the music, Bizet had to change the ending.
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Instacart workers went on strike on Monday, demanding provisions like hazard pay and safety equipment as they face risks from the coronavirus.
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Several public schools were closed as teachers went on strike to protest changes to their pension system made by the Republican legislature.
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But later that year, workers went on strike after the company asked for yet another round of painful concessions from its unions.
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More than 49,000 workers at General Motors went on strike last weekend to protest their pay, health care costs and job security.
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Thousands of players went on strike in 1982 and 1987 to pursue and, eventually, win free agency for future generations of players.
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The bank's workers immediately went on strike, joined the following day by the 7,000 members of the union for private bank employees.
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About 240.7,000.8 members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike early today as contract talks with General Motors broke down.
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Last month, tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles went on strike, and in Denver, thousands more are doing the same.
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On December 28, 1973, the three crew members of the fourth and final NASA Skylab mission went on strike for 24 hours.
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As a result of budget cutbacks, state schoolteachers went on strike in March, which meant children like Silva did not have classes.
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The Mexican referees' association said the initial punishments were too lenient and went on strike, with the weekend's first division fixtures called off.
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In Oklahoma, for example, teachers went on strike after tax cuts — led by the state's Republican legislature — gutted the state's public education funding.
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Days earlier, Yemeni bodega owners went on strike, closing their groceries for eight hours on a weekday in defiance of Trump's travel ban.
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Pilots at China Airlines went on strike in February, leading to 122 flight cancellations and T$220 million ($7.09 million) in lost revenue.
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SAS had cancelled more than 4,000 flights as of Thursday after pilots went on strike on April 26 over wages and working conditions.
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LOWER INCENTIVES Last October, hundreds of drivers went on strike in Mumbai and New Delhi, demanding higher fares to meet rising fuel costs.
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On September 2, several Zara stores were opened hours later than usual on the day thousands of Hong Kong students went on strike.
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Some German output was probably lost in February, when members of IG Metall, a large trade union for industrial workers, went on strike.
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Fully 77% of train drivers went on strike on the first day of industrial action in early April, well above the current rate.
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Miners of the nearby Zwartberg coal pit went on strike last week to protest the scheduled closing of their mine later this year.
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Verizon — Verizon landline workers went on strike this morning, after saying there has not been much progress in negotiations for a new contract.
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In 2012, the Serie A season was delayed when the players' union went on strike following a dispute over a new collective contract.
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During the Nowa Huta conference, Solidarity went on strike in Gdansk, which triggered a National State of Emergency, otherwise known as martial law.
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The report comes a week after thousands of Los Angeles public school teachers went on strike for the first time in 30 years.
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In 1968, white teachers in New York City went on strike after being dismissed from teaching at a majority black and Latino school.
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During the height of summer traffic, 7,000 flights were canceled after thousands of air traffic controllers went on strike to demand better pay.
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Pensioners were hit by higher social security payments and teachers went on strike in March to protest against planned public sector job cuts.
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The West Virginia teachers went on strike over rising health care costs, eventually securing a pay bump and a freeze on insurance premiums.
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Educators went on strike in Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, forcing state lawmakers to raise their pay and spend more on schools.
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Bus, subway and city rail services were disrupted and some flights were grounded as workers went on strike to protest against the bill.
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Google made the September announcement the day before a group of its workers went on strike to demand more action on climate change.
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SAS had canceled more than 4,000 flights as of Thursday after pilots went on strike on April 26 over wages and working conditions.
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The bill was preceded by numerous calls for wage raises, notably in 2012 when fast-food workers in New York went on strike.
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Pilots for Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, recently went on strike too in the UK, and they have more strikes planned this month.
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DETROIT – About 48,000 members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike early Monday as contract talks with General Motors broke down.
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General Motors shares fell 4.3% after the United Auto Workers union went on strike after contract talks between the two entities broke down.
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Over 200 employees of B&H Photo Video's Brooklyn warehouses went on strike on May Day, after accusing the company of union busting.
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Many of Hyperallergic's female employees and contributors went on strike yesterday (myself included), but we did take some photographs while we were out.
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Some 250 ABX Air pilots, who are represented by the Teamsters union, went on strike early Tuesday, affecting around 75 flights, mostly for Amazon.
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Hundreds of Uber drivers went on strike this week ahead of the IPO in an effort to highlight poor pay and unsatisfactory working conditions.
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One opportunity to appeal to unions arrived earlier this month, when workers from the grocery chain Stop & Shop went on strike in New England.
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Dock workers at the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's busiest container port, recently went on strike over increasing automation and the need for job security.
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In October 2016 lawyers and teachers in English-speaking cities went on strike in protest at having to use French in schools and courtrooms.
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Some 40,000 teachers went on strike and around 15,000 attended street protests in 11 Slovenian cities at noon, according to their trade union SVIZ.
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Plans to partially reopen Brussels airport on Friday evening were halted after airport police went on strike over security concerns, according to media reports.
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Oil workers in Kuwait achieved what the negotiators in Doha could not when they went on strike for three days, which helped lift prices.
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Pilots at rival China Airlines went on strike in February, leading to 122 flight cancellations and T$220 million ($7.09 million) in lost revenue.
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Ryanair staff have received support from unions representing workers from Poland's state-run airline LOT, who went on strike on Thursday over working conditions.
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Last year, teachers in several states went on strike following the lead of West Virginia, pushing for better benefits and better conditions for students.
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Paul Krugman When Verizon workers went on strike last week, they were mainly protesting efforts to outsource work to low-wage, non-union contractors.
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The manifesto also highlighted advances in healthcare, although Kenyan doctors went on strike for four months, beginning last December, over poor pay and conditions.
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In Kentucky, the legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto in order to fund education; teachers in Arizona went on strike, as did teachers in Colorado.
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But the central bank lowered its forecast for 2017 last week as growth in exports slowed, partly because its fishing industry went on strike.
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Earlier this year, the players of the storied Chicago Symphony Orchestra went on strike for 20033 days, eventually accepting pension changes they were resisting.
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Last year, a record number of US workers went on strike, according to data released in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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We asked some of the more than 246,903 teachers who went on strike last week to tell us how they teach their largest classes.
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For years, the United Automobile Workers union — the one that went on strike this week — has been suffering from this kind of vicious cycle.
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In early November, workers at the Momentive chemical plant in upstate New York went on strike to beat back pension and health care concessions.
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More than 2,500 hospital employees went on strike, demanding a complete closing of traffic from mainland China to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus.
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One day after the meeting at the Weather Service in Rockefeller Center, the city's three main daily newspapers went on strike for 88 days.
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Thousands of nurses across the country went on strike Friday morning, pushing for better patient care by demanding improved work conditions and higher pay.
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That's why nearly 50,000 workers at General Motors went on strike for six weeks, willing to take a financial hit to make a point.
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In January, the company was criticized after it removed surge fares after tax cab drivers went on strike to protest President Trump's travel ban.
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"Inmates in 17 states went on strike in 2018 in part to protest prison labor, which they&aposve referred to as "modern day slavery.
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Bela Balogh, president of the Vasas trade union said 80 workers went on strike in the assembly hall, delaying the shipment of 50 cars.
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That same month, an Australian education minister warned students and teachers that they would be punished if they went on strike during school hours.
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Millions of people across the world — from Pakistan to Iceland — went on strike Friday in the largest-ever global demonstration to fight climate change.
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In early 2000, more than 230,000 German prisoners of war held at Camp Perry, Ohio, received that punishment when they essentially went on strike.
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But when workers from that company went on strike in protest in 2002, he fired more than 18,000 of them and prohibited the action.
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The backdrop: The Friday for Future protests began in 2018 when Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg went on strike from school on Fridays.
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Meanwhile, nearly 1,800 Amazon workers in Spain went on strike during the event, and thousands more are expected to walk off the job today.
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On Prime Day in July, workers went on strike to protest conditions like poor air quality, timed bathroom and lunch breaks, and constant video surveillance.
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Members of the Hong Kong Disneyland Cast Members Union went on strike, as did many lifeguards, forcing authorities to close some beaches and swimming pools.
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Inside Harley-Davidson's EV shift with a ride on its LiveWire Uber drivers in Nairobi went on strike to protest the company's July fare cuts.
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This is a big concern across the country, as some teachers who protested or went on strike last year say they believe lawmakers are retaliating.
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In July 2018, Amazon workers in the US and Europe went on strike to protest what they described as hot, windowless, soul-crushing work environments.
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Nearly 40,000 Verizon employees went on strike on Wednesday in one of the largest U.S. walkouts in recent years after contract talks hit an impasse.
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Approximately 378,000 education services workers went on strike in 13, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an enormous explosion from just the previous year.
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But while teachers — with their #RedforEd movement — brought new attention to labor, healthcare, fast-food service, graduate student, and hotel workers also went on strike.
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The only hint of discord we felt as kids in the 23s was when our fathers went on strike for higher wages or better benefits.
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It honors Dutch workers who went on strike against German occupiers in February 1941, protesting the oppressive rules against Dutch Jews imposed by the Nazis.
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Thousands of public school teachers across West Virginia went on strike this week in protest over their pay and benefits, affecting more than 255,000 students.
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The workers, members of Unite Here Local 54, went on strike after contract negotiations with the owners of the Taj broke down late Thursday night.
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Teachers in Chicago — the nation's third-largest public school district — went on strike in October, calling for higher pay and more public funding in education.
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The pricing comes one day after drivers all over the world went on strike, with drivers in San Francisco protesting right outside the company's headquarters.
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Meanwhile in Europe, warehouse workers in Germany went on strike, and workers in the UK, Spain, and Poland picketed, over poor conditions and low pay.
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Workers in the affected warehouses have expressed their concerns, and in Italy workers went on strike Tuesday to protest the company's response to the crisis.
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Teachers in Jersey City went on strike Friday after they and the school district failed to reach an agreement over the cost of health insurance.
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So on May 8, a loose network of ride-hail drivers went on strike, from San Diego all the way to São Paulo and Sydney.
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Newsbook More than 30,000 Los Angeles public schoolteachers went on strike on Monday after months of unfruitful negotiations with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Last year, Harvard's dining service workers went on strike for several weeks before the university agreed to a modest pay increase and affordable health care.
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Rhee, along with more than 46,000 other Los Angeles Unified School District teachers, went on strike last week, demanding, among other things, decreased class sizes.
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The dispatch comes from my colleague, Jennifer Medina: When L.A. teachers went on strike earlier this year, public opinion seemed to swing in their favor.
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Instacart delivery workers most recently went on strike in November 2019 for higher tips, where Instacart responded by eliminating workers' bonuses, despite claiming no correlation.
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Instacart delivery contractors went on strike Monday to demand higher hazard pay for working during the pandemic, as well as safety equipment like hand sanitizer.
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Earlier Monday, workers at the New York warehouse went on strike to protest Amazon's health and safety policies following a colleague testing positive for coronavirus.
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Doctors and nurses at hospitals in Zimbabwe went on strike Wednesday, protesting a lack of protective equipment needed to treat patients infected with COVID-19.
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Teachers in Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest school system, went on strike earlier this year to demand better resources, per the Los Angeles Times.
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The tech giant made headlines over the summer when workers worldwide went on strike on Prime Day to protest poor working conditions and unfair pay.
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"I grew up always hearing about how my dad went on strike in 1979," McGinley, who is in her fifth year of teaching, told CNN.
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Public-sector workers in non-RTW states went on strike at a rate nearly 17 times greater than that of their counterparts in RTW states.
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In April, pilots at Scandinavian airline SAS pilots went on strike for a week, until they were able to reach a deal over pay raises.
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When about 20073,000 workers went on strike Monday against General Motors, they launched the largest American labor stoppage against any business since the financial crisis.
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The Mexican referees' association said the initial punishments were too lenient and went on strike, forcing a round of league fixtures to be called off.
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Air France workers also went on strike over pay on Tuesday, although the company said it expected 75 percent of flights to operate as usual.
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Only 2 percent of the Louvre's employees went on strike, and the museum was operating as usual, with temporary workers filling in, the museum said.
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Some 3,200 striking conductors and yard workers went on strike for eight days demanding improved working conditions, including worker rest breaks, at Canada's largest railroad.
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Yesterday, women around the world went on strike from work of all kinds and took to the streets in honor of International Women's Day (IWD).
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" But he did sympathize with his parents' struggles, and when his father, a bartender, went on strike in 1984, young Marco became "a committed union activist.
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The day before the July 4th holiday, in fact, Target employees who are organizing with Rise Up Retail went on strike at a store in Maryland.
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Fallout from Trump's travel ban continues, as more than 1,000 bodegas in New York City -- largely owned and operated by Yemeni-Americans -- went on strike Thursday.
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Some big unions went on strike a day earlier to demand the end of the tax bill, though the walkout brought smaller crowds than previous rallies.
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Workers at four Amazon logistic centers in Germany went on strike on Monday, the latest action in a long-running campaign for better pay and conditions.
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Back in 2006, when Detroit teachers openly went on strike, the district didn't even file a complaint because of those issues, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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The move came after Nok Airlines, the budget carrier unit of Thai Airways International, canceled nine domestic flights as some pilots went on strike on Sunday.
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Driving the news: Oakland teachers went on strike Thursday, joining Los Angeles and Denver among major U.S. cities that have seen teachers' strikes in recent months.
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In March, the doctors went on strike and won an increase in pay and allowances, ending the first big labor dispute Mnangagwa faced since taking power.
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To illustrate this power, he cites a locally famous episode from the 2000s, when waitresses at a big downtown hotel went on strike for higher wages.
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Truck owners, who are not unionized in Argentina, went on strike last week in a bid to force the adoption of mandatory minimum grain hauling rates.
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When she got there, the doctors in Kenya went on strike, leaving the pharmacists and the few others with an education in charge of the patients.
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British Airways pilots went on strike for 48 hours last month, grounding 13,700 flights in a dispute between pilot union BALPA and the airline over pay.
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About 36,000 Verizon workers went on strike early Wednesday after the communications company failed to reach an agreement with unions representing workers for its wireline operations.
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Even with preparation, the company said it had trained only upward of 10,000 employees to fill in for the nearly 36,000 workers who went on strike.
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Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.
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The Chicago Teachers Union went on strike for more than a week in 2012 and eventually won concessions from the city over pay and teacher evaluations.
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Workers in Europe went on strike earlier this year on another one of Amazon's peak shopping events, Prime Day, demanding better conditions in the company's warehouses.
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Angry about their co-workers' needless deaths, fed up with the poor pay and demanding union recognition, black sanitation workers went on strike on Feb. 12.
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General Motors — General Motors dropped 4.3% after about 48,000 United Auto Workers union members went on strike after contract talks with the auto giant broke down.
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From the archives: On this date in 2012, fast food workers in the city went on strike, leading to a national movement to raise their wages.
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The plant's 371 unionized workers went on strike after the two sides could not agree on proposed changes to the pension plan in the collective agreement.
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In 1973, three members of NASA's final Skylab mission went on strike to protest the 16-hour workdays they had for more than two months straight.
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Ships were unable to sail as workers went on strike and state-run hospitals had to rely on reserve staff as doctors walked off the job.
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A union representing about 4,20143 transit workers in Philadelphia went on strike early Tuesday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israel's diplomatic missions around the world closed on Wednesday as Foreign Ministry workers went on strike over a dispute about paying taxes on overseas stipends.
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The migrant workers had been forced to work 12-hour days under the supervision of armed guards and went on strike on three occasions for back pay.
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In March, taxi drivers in Madrid and Barcelona went on strike to protest the emergence of the new wave of private transport companies like Cabify and Uber.
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Doing so could put their job in jeopardy, as it did in 1981 when air traffic controllers went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions.
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In May, ride-hail drivers in cities across the US went on strike to protest unfair pay, poor working conditions, and a lack of transparency from Uber.
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The bottom line: Workers are finding their voice, whether it's through formal work stoppages (a lot of teachers went on strike in 2018) or through other means.
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Teachers, creche workers and civil servants went on strike on March 22 in protest at Macron's plans to cut the public sector headcount by 120,000 by 2022.
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Workers at ArcelorMittal's steel plant in western Mexico went on strike, the company and the national union said, as the industry grapples with a plunge in prices.
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It was in response to President Ronald Reagan's decision to fire 12,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike and demanded wage increases and safer working conditions.
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After leaving education, Austin became a machinist's apprentice, though shortly after his four years of training ended the union went on strike and Jimmy was left jobless.
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Nearly 300 flights were already cancelled since its cabin crew went on strike on June 20, including flights from Taipei to Chicago, Paris, Seoul and Hong Kong.
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Amazon workers in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Poland protested and went on strike on Prime Day on Monday, Amazon's busiest shopping event of the year.
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Most of the workers who went on strike were employed in the company's wireline business, though a small group of Verizon Wireless employees were among the strikers.
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About 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike, prompting former president Ronald Reagan to threaten to fire them if they don't return to work in 48 hours.
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In 1972, when the company began to speed up the line—to a production rate of 100 cars an hour—the workers rebelled and went on strike.
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In December 2002, almost half the workers at state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) went on strike in bid to trigger an early general election.
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I remember that the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike a few times during my childhood to protest this de facto two-tiered race-based wage system.
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"People say my vote won't do any good, but I beg to differ," said Ms. Rouse, who was among the thousands of teachers who went on strike.
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Hundreds of employees in nine cities across the United States went on strike on Tuesday to pressure the fast-food chain into instituting stronger protections for workers.
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McDonald's workers in Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, went on strike Thursday, according to the group Fight for $226, which advocates for a higher minimum wage.
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When Uber drivers went on strike across the world earlier this month, much of their frustration had to do with their lack of power as independent contractors.
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Thousands of medical workers in Hong Kong went on strike, in hopes of convincing the city's government to a complete shutdown of its borders with the mainland.
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Classes for more than 20123,000 students across the city of Chicago were canceled Thursday as thousands of teachers went on strike over working and student learning conditions.
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It had been my "local" during the "Winter of Discontent," in early 1979, when the trash collectors went on strike, then the lorry drivers, then the gravediggers.
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Among other movers, General Motors Co fell 4.7% after the United Auto Workers went on strike on Sunday, the first nationwide strike at GM in 12 years.
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In 2015, a majority of the Reserve Bank of India's 17,000 employees went on strike, which was described by the central bank as a "mass casual leave".
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The union, at that time, went on strike in protest of concessions such as a two-tier wage system and elimination of traditional benefits for new hires.
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On August 3, 1981, nearly 22017,2300 air-traffic controllers went on strike after negotiations with the federal government to raise their pay and shorten their workweek failed.
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AS steel plant in western Mexico went on strike on Friday, the company and the national union said, as the industry grapples with a plunge in prices.
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Nilsen re-hired the staff, including head coach John Gruden and assistant Dave Karpa, one day later after the players went on strike to protest the move.
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When Uber drivers went on strike across the world earlier last month, much of their frustration had to do with their lack of power as independent contractors.
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When the inmates at Holman went on strike last month, refusing to show up for their jobs inside the prison, a lack of security was among their grievances.
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Nepalese guides in recent years have protested poor pay and unsafe working conditions, and in 2014, they went on strike after 16 colleagues were killed in an avalanche.
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Last week, central bank workers went on strike in protest against any cuts that would affect their pay, leading the stock exchange to halt trading for two days.
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In April 2018, the same month Harvard graduate students voted to form their union, hundreds of students at Columbia University went on strike over their stalled contract negotiations.
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On May 8th, ride-hail drivers in cities across the US went on strike to protest unfair pay, poor working conditions, and a lack of transparency from Uber.
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When Los Angeles teachers went on strike for a week in January, they walked away with a promise from the district to hire more nurses, counselors and librarians.
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Medical workers in Hong Kong went on strike for a third day, in a bid to pressure the city's government to shut down all borders with mainland China.
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Ryanair pilots in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands went on strike on Friday in the biggest one-day strike Europe's largest low-cost carrier has faced.
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Jewellers in the world's second biggest gold consumer went on strike for six weeks after the government imposed 1 percent excise duty on gold jewellery from March onwards.
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Denver's public school teachers went on strike Monday, following the lead of teachers across the country who have refused to go to work until they get a raise.
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In October, thousands of women went on strike in Poland to protest an extreme anti-abortion bill, an act credited with prompting lawmakers to vote down the bill.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Some 13,500 workers at Croatia's largest shipbuilding group Uljanik went on strike on Wednesday and called for management to step down in protest over late payment.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Workers at four Amazon logistic centers in Germany went on strike on Monday, the latest action in a long-running campaign for better pay and conditions.
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Just as guards went on strike in April over the introduction of driver-only trains, it cut back on employee benefits such as free travel for family members.
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There's little doubt that the French team has not always helped itself — notably at the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, when the players went on strike.
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The United States is in the midst of its largest strike wave since the mid-1980s: In 2018, 485,216 workers went on strike, the highest number since 22019.
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South Africa's largest trade union went on strike Wednesday, threatening to "shut down the country" as it protested against corruption in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
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The current unrest escalated in late 2016 after lawyers, teachers and students went on strike and held street demonstrations about what they said was continued discrimination against Anglophones.
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In October, thousands of women went on strike in Poland to protest an extreme anti-abortion bill, an act credited with prompting lawmakers to vote down the bill.
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That was when East African Asian women working in film-processing factories went on strike for two years between 1976 and 1978 following a dispute over union recognition.
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In 2013, workers at the world's most popular museum went on strike in protest of an out-of-control pickpocketing problem in the institution's galleries and public spaces.
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Italy went on strike March 17th to protest what they saw as inadequate action by the company to protect them from infection.
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Italy went on strike March 17th to protest what they saw as inadequate action by the company to protect them from infection.
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The writers' unions, which went on strike in 2007 and nearly did so again two years ago, have traditionally had disputes with their bosses at the big studios.
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Workers at an Audi plant went on strike this year and won an 18 percent wage increase; employees at other companies have warned of more strikes to come.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Parisian commuters faced travel misery on Friday as metro workers went on strike over plans to reduce their retirement privileges under President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Parisian commuters faced travel misery on Friday as metro workers went on strike over plans to reduce their retirement privileges under President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms.
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Dora Brooks, 58, and Mary Martinez, 62, were there when the biggest union, Local 54 of Unite Here, went on strike in 2016 and hastened the Taj's demise.
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It's the first major labor action among auto workers since 2007, when they went on strike as the recession loomed and jobs were being cut at the plants.
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Nearly 50,000 of the carmaker's employees went on strike overnight, after the United Automobile Workers' current bargaining agreement with the company expired, Neal Boudette of the NYT reports.
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Nearly 50,000 of the carmaker's employees went on strike overnight, after the United Automobile Workers' current bargaining agreement with the company expired, Neal Boudette of the NYT reports.
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The United Automobile Workers union went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines on Monday morning.
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In June, graduate students went on strike for three days, carrying picket signs that left little doubt that the work stoppage was occurring on an elite college campus.
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The United Automobile Workers union went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines on Monday morning.
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The strike topped the 300 flights a day Ryanair had to cancel last month when cabin crews in Belgium, Portugal and Spain went on strike for 48 hours.
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After the clash, villagers threw rocks at security forces, who responded with teargas, while lawyers in the state's high court went on strike in protest over Dar's death.
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Taxi drivers at JFK Airport in New York went on strike, and then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick drew public ire for allowing Uber drivers to break the strike.
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Amazon's rise to the top has been accompanied by widespread allegations of a brutal corporate culture and poor treatment of workers (some of whom went on strike this week).
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Teachers from seven school districts in southwestern Washington state went on strike Thursday, causing nearly 80,000 students across the state to miss the first day of school, reports Reuters.
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It cancelled around 4,000 flights between April 26 and May 3 as pilots demanding better pay and working conditions went on strike, disrupting the travel plans of 8083,000 customers.
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Lloyd notes last year's strike by Australia's women's national team for higher pay and says the U.S. women's team nearly went on strike over wage issues two years ago.
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SAS pilots went on strike on Friday as wage talks broke down, grounding around 70 percent of the airline's flights and hitting some 170,000 people over the weekend alone.
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Nearly 1,800 workers went on strike on Monday in Spain, where the planned protest was first conceived as a way to fight pay cuts and restrictions on time off.
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Earlier this month, teachers in West Virginia went on strike to kill a bill that would have introduced charter schools — publicly funded but privately operated schools — into the state.
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Related: This Japanese Commercial Is the Trump Meme to End All Trump Memes Museums Went on Strike for Inauguration Day 100 Days of Artistic Resistance Against Trump Begin Now
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SAS pilots went on strike on Friday as wage talks broke down, grounding around 70 percent of the airline's flights and hitting some 170,303 people over the weekend alone.
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Nearly 60,000 teachers went on strike in September and November 1968, resulting in a loss of one-fifth of the school year's instructional time, and impacting 1 million children.
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Only about one-third of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) attended school on Monday as thousands of Los Angeles public school teachers went on strike.
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Miners last year went on strike at the mine for two weeks before reaching agreement on a dispute that had forced previous owner BHP Billiton to declare force majeure.
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Kaddour fears any outright wage increase for engineers might trigger wider protests after doctors and teachers went on strike for months this year demanding pay rises to match inflation.
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They know what happened in 214.5 when the players went on strike only to see the owners hire replacement players — and break the strike in less than a month.
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Nurses at the community hospital in Altoona, Pa., briefly went on strike that same year, not long after their facility became part of the Pittsburgh-based medical behemoth UPMC.
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It must also improve its relationship with drivers, some of whom went on strike around the world on Wednesday to protest what they said were Uber's unfair business practices.
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She gained recognition when she went on strike from school last year to protest her government's inaction on climate change, sparking a series of worldwide demonstrations by young people.
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The Chicago Teachers Union last went on strike in 2012, when it pushed back against the school reform agenda of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a strong supporter of charter schools.
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More than 30,000 public schoolteachers and employees went on strike in Los Angeles on Monday, with demands for higher pay, smaller classes and more support staff in the schools.
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Amazon warehouse workers in New York City went on strike the same day after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 and the company refused to close the building.
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Thousands of Posti workers went on strike for more than two weeks, with solidarity action spreading to other sectors including aviation, until the pay dispute was resolved on Wednesday.
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The effects of the production stoppage, which began September 16 when 49,000 United Auto Workers went on strike, is causing a ripple effect through the Detroit automaker's global operations.
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On Monday, the United Automobile Workers went on strike at General Motors, sending nearly 50,000 members at factories across the Midwest and South to picket lines, continuing the trend.
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Galvanized by West Virginia teachers, who went on strike and got a pay raise, educators in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona are also demanding better conditions for students and themselves.
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Last week, 220006,2202 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers represented by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union went on strike for the first time in 2628 years.
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Loomis pointed to a 1983 labor stoppage where thousands of copper miners and mill workers went on strike for almost three years against the Arizona-based Phelps Dodge Corporation.
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Warsteiner has cut jobs, while this summer workers at the Holsten brewery in Hamburg went on strike to protest against plans to axe almost a fifth of its jobs.
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Amazon workers in Spain and Germany went on strike Monday to protest working conditions at the e-commerce giant's warehouses, just as its massive Prime Day sales kick off.
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When N.F.L. players went on strike in 1987, their replacements (referred to in the title by the derogatory union term "scabs") were met with demonstrations, rallies and name-calling.
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Workers at Untertuerkheim went on strike this month, leading to the cancellation of overtime shifts to make the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class model and forcing the management into talks.
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Drivers and representatives working for ride hailing companies and ministry of transport officials have been meeting most of this week, after the drivers went on strike to protest low fares.
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About 25,203 educators went on strike with many of the same demands that teachers across the country have clamored for: smaller class sizes, higher raises and more money for schools.
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More than 2,500 Hong Kong medical workers went on strike Monday morning, seeking to pressure the government to bar travel to the semi-autonomous city amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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In London riders providing on-the-ground delivery services for another company in this space, Deliveroo, went on strike this summer — after the company tried to impose new payment terms.
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Chicago (CNN)Chicago public school teachers went on strike Friday over state funding and school closures, prompting the cancellation of classes for 400,000 students in the nation's third-largest district.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Pilots at Swedish airline SAS went on strike on Friday after wage talks broke down, affecting thousands of passengers as scores of domestic and European flights were canceled.
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WHEN 20153,22015 female garment workers went on strike in New York City more than a century ago, their goal was to secure higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions.
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SAS pilots went on strike on Friday after talks over wages and conditions broke down, grounding around 70 percent of the airline's flights and affecting about 13,000 passengers through Tuesday.
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Drivers told WJLA that they have resorted to using the system because of falling pay, one of the foremost reasons Uber drivers around the world went on strike in May.
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Members of opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo went on strike to protest against efforts by Joseph Kabila, the president, to run for a third term in office.
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A similar dynamic was in play earlier this year in teachers strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, where educators rallied and went on strike to demand higher wages.
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The impact is felt at all levels of the workforce: Hundreds of McDonald's workers went on strike this week to protest the company's failure to address harassment in its franchises.
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When his teachers union went on strike in 2016, Ocul chose to cross the picket line and continue to teach his math students, while coaching his impressive girls' chess club.
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It was conceived in contrast, though not opposition, to last year's inauguration day #J20 strike, in which many art institutions and individuals went on strike to protest the incoming administration.
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LUSAKA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) said on Friday it had resumed transportation of copper which it halted on Tuesday after unionised workers went on strike.
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More than 2,500 medical workers in Hong Kong — mostly those considered to be nonemergency personnel — went on strike Monday morning to pressure the authorities to bar entries from mainland China.
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Teachers who went on strike anyhow would be subject to fines or jail, and schools would be prevented from paying teachers for days in which they participated in a demonstration.
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Because the company was still profitable for the year, the UAW members who went on strike will get a profit sharing bonus of about $8,000 each, according to the union.
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Workers went on strike at the state-run oil firm, Petróleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, which he had long denounced for its associations with business elites and the United States.
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Last year, the treatment at the nation's hospitals almost ground to a halt when doctors and nurses went on strike for months due to low pay and poor working conditions.
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As the Amazon workers in Spain, Germany, and another cohort in Poland went on strike this week, CEO Jeff Bezos ascended to the rank of wealthiest man in recorded modern history.
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That is many more than the monthly average for 206, yet very few compared with November 2011, for instance, when more than 1m public-sector workers went on strike over austerity.
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KAMPALA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Doctors working in Ugandan public hospitals went on strike on Monday to protest low salaries and shortages of essential supplies, a spokesman for their union told Reuters.
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In a stroke of unfortunate timing, Wired magazine published a 20143,000-word treatise on Uber's new corporate logo one day after the drivers went on strike outside its New York office.
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The last time the GOP floated the introduction of charter schools in the state, in February, West Virginia teachers mobilized and went on strike, eventually stopping the bill in its tracks.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Residents on the Greek island of Lesbos went on strike on Monday to protest against European policies they say have turned it into a "prison" for migrants and refugees.
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West Virginia public school teachers went on strike Tuesday — nearly one year after their original nine-day action inspired educators across the U.S. to launch picket lines, the Associated Press reports.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Nurses in Zimbabwe went on strike on Monday to press the government to pay them allowances and to protest a flawed system for grading salaries, a nurses union said.
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The call for "bread and roses" became famous in 272, when more than 2000,22001 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, went on strike to protest wage cuts that accompanied a shorter workweek.
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Four years ago, Grambling State's football team went on strike to protest dangerous, dilapidated athletic facilities; in 2010, Mississippi Valley State's football stadium was deemed so unsafe it was temporarily closed.
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Last fall, McDonald's workers in 10 cities went on strike to draw attention to sexual harassment at the chain's stores and demand that company officials do more to address the problem.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of people pressed ahead with protests in Jordan's capital on Wednesday and some unions went on strike despite King Abullah replacing his prime minister to defuse public anger.
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Nevertheless, when black and Latino activists pushed for community and parent control of struggling schools, including the right to remove teachers, the union went on strike to protect teachers' tenure rights.
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Quentin Cheng Hin-kei, chairman of Hong Kong Social and Political Organisation Workers' Union, told Reuters some of their members also went on strike and the union was discussing more action.
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OTTAWA — Workers at a General Motors assembly plant in Ontario went on strike late Sunday as union leaders reported an impasse in talks to keep Canadian jobs from moving to Mexico.
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Inspired by the West Virginia strike, in which teachers went on strike and won concessions, teachers are similarly organizing and publicly pressuring their state lawmakers in states including Oklahoma and Arizona.
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More than 200 pilots for the cargo carrier ABX Air, whose customers include DHL and Amazon, briefly went on strike last fall before a federal judge ordered them back to work.
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In 1970, when the U.A.W. was near its peak membership, 400,000 of its members went on strike for two months against G.M., which was still one of the world's largest companies.
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Employees from restaurants in 85033 cities across the country went on strike last September in an effort to get the company to strengthen its policies against sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)British Airways was forced to cancel virtually all flights for Monday and Tuesday after its pilots went on strike for the first time in the airline's history.
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Workers should have the right to choose to keep the healthcare Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 85033 years, 4 months, and 10 days to protect.
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THIS month police in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo went on strike for ten days, during which 2000 people were murdered and all hell broke loose in Vitória, the state capital.
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OSLO/COPENHAGEN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - SAS pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark went on strike on Friday as wage talks broke down, threatening the travel plans of some 29,2759.89 passengers over the weekend.
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They grew to include not only frustrated young people but also vital functionaries, such as judges, who refused to supervise the election, and employees of state energy firms, who went on strike.
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The University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and the Kenya University Staff Union (KASU) went on strike in January.. UASU, which has members in 33 universities, had demanded a 400 percent pay rise.
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"On May 1st, 1886, Chicago workers went on strike to fight for the eight-hour work day we now assume as given," Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration wrote on Medium on Monday.
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About 17,000 AT&T workers in California and Nevada went on strike on Wednesday, alleging that the company violated contract terms by forcing employees to do work outside their areas of expertise.
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Earlier this month, around 400 employees of Just Born Quality Confections—the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania candy manufacturer responsible for such niche sweets as Peeps, Mike and Ikes, and Hot Tamales—went on strike.
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BRATISLAVA, June 20 (Reuters) - Workers at Volkswagen's Slovak plants went on strike on Tuesday over demands for a bigger wage rise, hitting a key part of the central European country's manufacturing output.
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Thomas Cook pilots went on strike on Friday for 12 hours in what the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) said was the first walkout by British pilots in more than 40 years.
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SAS pilots went on strike on Friday as wage talks broke down, grounding around 70 percent of the airline's flights and affecting about 280,000 passengers, including cancellations set for Monday and Tuesday.
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About 4,700 workers represented by the Transport Workers Union Local 234 went on strike early on Tuesday after they were unable to reach a contract agreement with Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
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When approximately 40,000 Verizon workers went on strike last month, it was right in the middle of the week that government number crunchers analyze to gauge the strength of the job market.
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In 2007, workers went on strike at the Pirin-Tex factory in Gotse Delchev, the biggest clothing factory in Bulgaria, with more than 2,000 workers that is located near the Greek border.
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Ecopetrol's Barrancabermeja refinery, where workers recently went on strike due to a salary dispute, is expected to restart its cracking unit in seven to 10 days after completing maintenance work, he said.
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About 250 pilots for the carrier, ABX Air, went on strike on Tuesday, accusing their employer of forcing them to work an excessive number of flight assignments in violation of their contract.
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Zaldivar's workers have the same legal adviser as the union at Escondida, the largest copper mine in the world, where workers went on strike for more than 40 days earlier this year.
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A year after Melia P. Tourangeau, the current president and chief executive, arrived in the summer of 2015, the musicians went on strike to defend themselves against cuts to wages and pensions.
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Workers at G.M.'s plant in Ingersoll went on strike last month to protest the shift of some production to Mexico that led to the loss of about 600 Canadian production jobs.
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This past week, for example, unions representing about 2,000 workers at copper mines and smelters in Arizona and Texas went on strike, saying their members had not received raises for a decade.
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Members of the Unite Here labor union in eight cities across the country won this right last year, after they went on strike against Marriott, the wealthiest hotel chain on the planet.
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Gregory Pardlo Sr. was an air traffic controller and labor organizer who lost his job in 1981 when 13,000 controllers went on strike and President Reagan fired more than 11,000 of them.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek island residents went on strike for a second day on Thursday, stepping up protests against government plans for new migrant camps on five islands after violent clashes with police.
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And it helped close the book on a tumultuous period in which orchestras in Fort Worth, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh went on strike, raising new questions about the financial health of classical music.
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Ms. Pressley came back onstage and urged the protesters to let Ms. Warren proceed with her speech, which highlighted the story of black washerwomen who went on strike in Atlanta in 1881.
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The Century Air pilots went on strike for two months with the backing of the Air Line Pilots Association, in protest of a 40 percent wage cut imposed by the airline's owner.
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Two pilots went on strike when the negotiations broke down on Monday, and as many as 559 were schedule to strike from Thursday unless a deal was found, trade unions had warned.
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Dublin, Ireland (CNN)As women around the world wore red in solidarity with International Women's Day, crowds in Ireland donned black and went on strike to protest against the country's restrictive abortion laws.
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After taxis went on strike at JFK airport in New York in protest against the travel ban, Uber came under fire for not boycotting the airport, too, and the hashtag "#DeleteUber" went viral.
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One of Europe's biggest airlines, Lufthansa has cancelled over 2,600 flights since pilots represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union went on strike on Wednesday, disrupting travel plans for more than 315,000 passengers.
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"Some of the recruits found out subsequently they would only get paid $200 per month once they got to Iraq, but a number of them went on strike when they arrived," she said.
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Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have, as expected, revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's inhabitants were forced to take to their cars.
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OSLO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Norwegian trade union Industri Energi will expand the ongoing strike among Norwegian oil service workers by 23 people, on top of the 335 that went on strike on Sept.
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TAZARA spokesman Conrad Simuchile said train services between Zambia and Tanzania were suspended indefinitely after unionized employees in Zambia went on strike, demanding payment of their unpaid salaries for October and November 2017.
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Teachers went on strike in Oklahoma and West Virginia earlier this year in efforts to secure higher pay - and voters later defeated some lawmakers who voted against those efforts in Oklahoma's state contests.
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Its operations were disrupted for days in November as employees went on strike in protest against the company's plans to make collective agreements more flexible and to hire more non-union temporary workers.
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Thousands of faculty members went on strike Wednesday at 14 Pennsylvania state colleges and universities — a rare escalation in higher education, but one that reflects increasingly widespread tensions between administrators and their faculties.
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Likely emboldened by the flurry of labor actions at the infamous Shakopee fulfillment center 30 minutes West, 80 of those part-timers went on strike outside an Eagan, Minnesota, delivery center on Thursday.
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A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 234 because of labor disputes with employers, according to data released in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to new data released Tuesday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Planned Uber strikes: Drivers in Australia briefly went on strike today, the start of a planned series of global protests as the ride-hailing giant prepares for an initial public offering this week.
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What's next: Some Hong Kong medical workers went on strike today, as part of a campaign to press the semiautonomous city to close all of its border checkpoints to visitors from mainland China.
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Last year saw teachers strikes in Arizona, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, and picket lines form outside Marriott locations in four states: All told, about 106 million workers went on strike last year alone.
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Every nursing school across the country would shut down if their (mostly female) faculty went on strike, and the scene that would unfold at every single hospital in the US is unimaginably bleak.
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Many women who told me they went "on strike" did so by taking paid time off — and said they felt conflicted about that, because it's simply not a luxury that many women have.
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A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to new data released last week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish teachers went on strike on Tuesday in a dispute that could close most secondary schools indefinitely, the latest industrial unrest testing the minority government and pressuring the country's still fragile finances.
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"We are all in this together, and together we are strong, and we will not give up," she added in a message of solidarity with Australian students who also went on strike last week.
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Parker was one of 25,000 Chicago educators who went on strike Thursday, demanding what teachers across the country have been clamoring for: smaller class sizes, more support staff, higher raises and more school funding.
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One of Europe's biggest airlines, Lufthansa has already grounded nearly 22014,2222 flights since pilots represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union went on strike on Wednesday, disrupting travel plans for more than 20153,22015 passengers.
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In Poland on Monday, thousands of women in 60 cities went on strike, dressed in all black, and protested in the streets against a proposal to ban all abortion in Poland with no exceptions.
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Zaldivar's workers have the same legal adviser as the union at Chile's Escondida mine, the largest copper mine in the world, where workers went on strike for more than 40 days earlier this year.
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For the past two weeks more than a 100,000 Uber drivers in Delhi and Bangalore, two major cities in India, went on strike, demanding better pay and representation from the Silicon Valley ridesharing company.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greeks went on strike on Thursday to protest against planned labor reforms and painful austerity cuts demanded by European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders as part of a crucial bailout review.
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In the latest labor flare-up in the classical world, the musicians of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra went on strike Thursday after contract talks broke down, forcing the cancellation of this weekend's performances.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - About 1,000 Finnish electrical workers went on strike on Wednesday at companies including steel makers and metal engineering firms due to a dispute over wage-setting and collective agreements in the industry.
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Last Tuesday 669 workers on the Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike after rejecting a proposed wage deal, closing Shell's Knarr field, which produces 23,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
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German and Spanish workers went on strike two months ago on Black Friday, the discount spending spree that kicks off the Christmas shopping season, but Amazon said this had no impact on customer orders.
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The last time federal workers went on strike, when nearly 13,000 air-traffic controllers walked off the job for better pay and working conditions in 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 of them.
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In 1924 the British government, reckoning that air connections might help hold together the empire, created Imperial Airways, another forerunner of BA. Before any of its planes took off, its pilots went on strike.
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About 650,000 public sector workers went on strike and thousands joined protests across Tunisia on Thursday over the government's refusal to raise wages amid threats from international lenders to stop financing Tunisia's tattered economy.
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After 150 cooks and dishwashers represented by the union Unite Here Local 11 went on strike, all seven qualifying candidates announced they would not cross the workers&apos picket line to attend the debate.
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One of the strikers, By Kunthea, who has been working at the casino for 19 years, said the company had warned employees in a memo they would be fired if they went on strike.
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One of the strikers, By Kunthea, who has been working at the casino for 19 years, said the company had warned employees in a memo they would be fired if they went on strike.
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Shares have rallied 4% since hitting a near three-week low on Thursday at C$118.50 Some 3,200 striking conductors and yard workers went on strike demanding improved working conditions, including worker rest breaks.
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Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike on Tuesday after rejecting a proposed wage deal, closing Shell's Knarr field, which produces 23,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
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A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to new data released in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The following week, hundreds of Yemeni-owned bodegas closed their doors throughout New York City, as thousands went on strike, opting instead to say prayers en masse in front of the Federal Court Building.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French public sector workers went on strike on Tuesday against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to cull jobs and toughen pay conditions, forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and disrupting school activities.
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After GM workers went on strike calling for fair wages, job security, and rejecting the 500% increase to their healthcare costs, the corporation initially dropped the workers&apos healthcare altogether and with no warning.
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Last September, according to Reuters, workers at several fast food chains, including McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken went on strike in 60 cities across the US to demand a $15-per-hour minimum wage.
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Amid the crisis, the United Federation of Teachers, many of whose members were Jewish, went on strike throughout the city, affecting hundreds of thousands of students and resulting in dozens of lost school days.
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In Spain, one of the country's largest unions, UGT, said an estimated 6 million people went on strike across the country for at least two hours to demand equal pay and rights for women.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Thousands of Tunisian lawyers went on strike on Friday to protest at new taxes and tighter fiscal controls on their profession, extending a series of demonstrations against austerity measures in the 2017 budget.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aviation, maritime and public transport workers in Papua New Guinea went on strike on Thursday before a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who has refused to resign over corruption allegations.
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At the tournament in South Africa eight years ago, the French side, made up of supersized egos, went on strike during a training session, and later departed in disgrace after crashing out of the tournament.
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Nearly 600 union workers at the United Launch Alliance — the US government's primary rocket launch provider — went on strike on May 6th, just a day after the company launched a lander to Mars for NASA.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, went on strike early Friday morning after management and the workers' union failed to reach agreement on wages and health benefits.
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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) said it had canceled classes and after-school activities on Tuesday for its 300,000 students, who have been out of school since Thursday when the system's 25,000 teachers went on strike.
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MUMBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Nearly 300,000 employees of Indian state-run banks went on strike on Tuesday against government plans to consolidate the sector through mergers as part of efforts to ensure stronger balance sheets.
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According to the Miami Herald, Spirit's pilots went on strike because they say they're not getting paid anywhere near what their peers are, despite the company having turned a profit for 27 consecutive financial quarters.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Security staff at eight German airports went on strike on Tuesday in an escalating pay dispute that means up to 0003,000 passengers could be affected by delays or cancellations, airport association ADV said.
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He also criticized the Belgocontrol, the air traffic control agency, whose staff members went on strike shortly after the airport reopened to protest plans to raise the age at which employees may retire with pensions.
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Workers at Port Sudan's southern container terminal went on strike in February to protest against a 20-year concession signed in January to operate, manage and develop the South Port Container Terminal at Port Sudan.
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In July, workers at Amazon warehouses in Minnesota went on strike during the company's annual Prime Day sale, protesting the move to one-day shipping, which they said would effectively double their already strenuous workload.
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In 2015, two employees of Brandt and five employees of Hy-Brand went on strike to highlight safety concerns and the level of their pay and benefits, and the ownership fired all seven in retaliation.
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North Carolina, where 20,000 teachers went on strike in May of 2018, currently is tied with South Carolina for the lowest unionization rate in the country — just 2.7% of all workers belonging to unions there.
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According to a representative from Air France's office in Paris, 28 percent of its employees went on strike on today, which forced the airline to cancel 25 percent of its flights scheduled for the day.
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The teachers went on strike saying that the government regulations defining the complexity of the jobs in the public sector are such that the teachers' salaries have for years lagged behind other public sector roles.
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In July, hotel employees went on strike to protest what they said were low wages and the firing of 45 workers by Diamond Resorts, an operator of multiple properties in the United States and Europe.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers at South Africa's high-speed Gautrain went on strike over pay on Monday affecting services to the country's main airport, the capital Pretoria and commercial hub Johannesburg that caters for business commuters.
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Jim Justice signed legislation Wednesday giving teachers a pay raise, but educators said it wasn't enough and it didn't address other areas of concern like insurance and health care costs, so they went on strike.
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In the year before the Ebola crisis, more than 20,000 government health care workers went on strike, saying they had gone unpaid for months at a time, and the strikes have recurred regularly since then.
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Workers went on strike in June over pay, forcing the utility to cut power supplies over three days for the first time since 2015, when rolling blackouts cost the economy billions of dollars a month.
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PHILADELPHIA — Transit workers here went on strike Tuesday, halting bus, trolley and subway service, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people onto packed commuter trains and roads to get to and from work or school.
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Some 250 pilots, who are represented by the Teamsters union, went on strike in the early morning, affecting around 75 flights, mostly for Amazon and DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post AG. Pilots went on strike because ABX, owned by Air Transport Services Group Inc, has violated its contract by asking them to work emergency hours over the last two years because of a staffing shortage, then failed to grant them compensatory time off or allow pilots to take earned vacations, the union said.
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The issue isn't confined to the US. Just after the Vancouver Art Gallery revealed the final design for a new $350m building, almost 200 of its unionised employees went on strike over wages and working conditions.
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Flight attendants at the Taiwanese airline went on strike on June 20 after a months-long discussion between the two yielded no results, disrupting over 2,000 flights and impacting about 405,000 passengers including the latest cancellations.
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"Workers should have the right to choose to keep the healthcare Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 6 years, 4 months, and 85033 days to protect," said Geoconda Argüello-Kline.
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" Argüello-Kline added: "Workers should have the right to choose to keep the health care Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 6 years, 4 months and 10 days to protect.
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JUBA, April 26 (Reuters) - South Sudan's oil exports have been disrupted after oil workers in the city of Port Sudan in neighbouring Sudan went on strike and joined widespread anti-government protests, a government spokesman said.
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In the early days of the presidency of Bill Clinton, congressional Republicans essentially went on strike, treating any legislative accomplishment as a Republican defeat, but they came to the table for a budget deal in 1997.
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On Wednesday evening, Kiir issued a decree that dismissed a group of 12 judges who went on strike in a bid to force reform in the judicial system, Deputy Information Minister Akol Paul Kordit told Reuters.
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But as if to drive home the stakes for Americans, at least some Amazon workers in Germany and Spain went on strike Monday to protest long hours, a lack of bonuses, and concerns about worker health.
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AMSTERDAM, June 14 (Reuters) - Dozens of easyJet pilots went on strike in the Netherlands on Tuesday over a disagreement with the budget airline about working hours, pensions and sick pay, the Dutch Airline Pilots Association said.
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Thousands of workers from factories in and around Phnom Penh went on strike last week amid fears bosses were plotting to circumvent a new government edict to pay - and backpay - bonuses based on length of employment.
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Propelled by poor resources and dismal pay, teachers started a new wave of labor actions in February 2018 when 35,000 West Virginia teachers and other education workers went on strike for the first time since 1990.
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To coincide with Prime Day, more than 2,000 workers at seven Amazon sites across Germany went on strike over pay and conditions for logistics workers for at least two days, labor union Verdi said on Monday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's much-vaunted economy grew at its slowest pace in a decade last quarter as cash-strapped consumers went on strike, an urgent argument for more monetary and fiscal stimulus as headwinds mount globally.
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Australia's economy grew at its slowest pace in a decade last quarter, data showed on Wednesday, as cash-strapped consumers went on strike, an urgent argument for more monetary and fiscal stimulus as headwinds mount globally.
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By contrast, in 2016, the six biggest studios that belong to the AMPTP reported $51 billion in operating profits, which represents about double their profits 10 years ago (the last time the WGA went on strike).
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States with agency fees and public sector collective bargaining, he said, tend to have higher teacher salaries and school funding than right-to-work states like West Virginia and the others where teachers went on strike.
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More than 2,503 medical workers in Hong Kong went on strike Monday morning to pressure the government to bar entries from mainland China, a number that was expected to grow if the government did not relent.
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Spirit pilots, who tend to make less than their counterparts at the major carriers, went on strike for several days in 2010, citing low wages after several years of negotiations had failed to produce a contract.
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The port workers recently went on strike, seeking to secure a three-year job guarantee after absorbing a major setback in the new contract, assenting to wage cuts and allowing employers to hire outside their ranks.
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This wave of walkouts has continued, as 2628,28503 Los Angeles public school teachers and 22019,000 Stop and Shop workers went on strike earlier this year, while 46,000 workers at General Motors are still on strike today.
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Taking the number of public employees in RTW and non-RTW states into account indicates that government employees in non-RTW states went on strike at 26 times the rate of public employees in RTW states.
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Tens of thousands of teachers went on strike in October in Chicago to demand more money to ease overcrowded classrooms and more support staff, in addition to seeking a wage increase for the district's 25,33 teachers.
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In fact, a record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to new data released in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Cabin crew in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium went on strike on Wednesday and around a quarter of Ryanair's Dublin-based pilots carried out their third 24-hour stoppage in the space of two weeks on Tuesday.
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Why it matters: The ballot measure would have brought more than $690 million to Arizona schools, which would have further funded the increase in teacher salaries and operating costs educators went on strike for earlier this year.
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In 2015, the football team at the University of Missouri went on strike to protest the handling of racist incidents on campus, and Yale was rocked by controversy about the proper way to address insensitive Halloween costumes.
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Less than a month after ride-hail drivers around the globe briefly went on strike on the eve of Uber's IPO to protest low wages and their status as contractors, the bill was approved 53 to 11.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair proposed that a third-party mediator join talks with a trade union representing its Irish pilots who went on strike for a fourth time on Friday before wider stoppages planned around Europe next week.
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Amid it all, Lloyd has also released a memoir, and in a recent interview she discussed the book, her relationships with her teammates, and what she might do if the national team went on strike over pay.
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Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike on Tuesday after rejecting a proposed wage deal, leading to the shutdown of one Shell-operated field and helping send Brent crude prices higher.
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The players went on strike Friday to protest a contract offer that they said did not do enough to restore the pay and benefits lost amid the orchestra's bankruptcy, which ended a little over four years ago.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek public-sector workers went on strike on Thursday to protest labor and pension reforms and state asset sales which the leftist-led government agreed with the country's official creditors in exchange for bailout loans.
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Earlier that afternoon, hundreds of employees of Burger King, Wendy's, and other restaurants in the Manchester area went on strike for the first time, marching down the streets in an effort to demand a $15 minimum wage.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of Greek workers went on strike on Wednesday to protest against years of belt-tightening and a new wave austerity measures that will kick in after the country's third international bailout expires this summer.
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WARSAW — When Poland's teachers went on strike three weeks ago, bringing the nation's school system to a grinding halt and forcing parents to scramble to find child care, the response from the government was not exactly sympathetic.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Tuesday about public nuisance charges brought against the leaders of a Hong Kong protest movement misstated the goal of students who went on strike before joining forces with the Occupy movement in 2014.
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Thousands of newly unionized health care and hospital workers went on strike this week, stressing that Lam's inaction threatened to overwhelm the territory's health care system, especially if mainland Chinese visitors sought medical care in Hong Kong.
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ATHENS, May 30 (Reuters) - Greek workers went on strike on Wednesday to protest against years of belt-tightening and a new wave austerity measures that will kick in after the country's third international bailout expires this summer.
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Later that month, teachers went on strike again, temporarily shutting down every public school in the state after Bevin vetoed a two-year budget that would have boosted school funding by $480 million through various tax hikes.
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It's a trend that started in West Virginia, when teachers who were the lowest paid in the country with no right to collectively bargain went on strike for nine days, effectively shutting down schools in the state.
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: General Motors – GM workers went on strike against the automaker in the first nationwide walkout since 2007, after the two sides failed to agree on a new contract.
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People around the world went on strike and took part in demonstrations for International Women's Day and A Day Without a Woman marches on Tuesday, which were organized by the activists behind the Women's March on Washington.
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KHARTOUM, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Workers at Port Sudan's southern container terminal went on strike on Monday to protest against a deal with Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), port employees and a union official said.
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The third-largest U.S. public school system canceled classes for the fifth straight day for 300,000 students, who have been out of school and without after-hours activities since the system's 25,000 teachers went on strike last week.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand school teachers went on strike on Wednesday for the first time in more than 20 years, challenging the Labour government's plans to balance promised fiscal responsibility against growing demands to increase public sector salaries.
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ZAGREB, March 21 (Reuters) - Workers at Croatia's biggest shipbuilder Uljanik went on strike for the third time since August on Thursday, claiming they had worked without pay for months pending a government decision on the ailing group's future.
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Here's a rundown on the SNCF and other protests: Nearly one in two train drivers, conductors and signal-box workers went on strike on Tuesday, bringing widespread disruption to Paris commuter lines and France's high-speed TGV network.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean doctors at public hospitals went on strike on Monday for the second time this year to demand better pay and conditions, a union official said, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government struggles with a deteriorating economy.
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In 2011, hundreds of thousands of workers including teachers and civil servants went on strike over changes to pensions in what was the biggest walkout seen in Britain for a generation, although the said the impact was limited.
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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA, June 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Monday demanding better working conditions, the country's top medical body said, as the outrage over lax security conditions at hospitals escalated.
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The workers, who went on strike at nine sites earlier in the day over unpaid annual profit-sharing bonuses, plan to maintain "a strike posture" during the talks, said Braz Abreu, director of the Metabase Belo Horizonte union.
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The team went on strike and united every women's hockey player in the country to boycott USA Hockey until the organization made a commitment to better financial support of their women's national team and development programs for girls.
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Instead, the first test of presidential will came on a purely internal issue when the nation's air traffic controllers, in a labor dispute with the Federal Aviation Administration, went on strike in direct violation of United States law.
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Barely 214,29.5 attended one Paris rally on Tuesday to protest against the reforms, a fraction of the hundreds of thousands who went on strike in the heyday of French industrial action freezing activity in swathes of the economy.
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ATHENS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Greek ships remained docked at the country's ports on Monday as seamen went on strike to demand the restoration of wages and labour rights, following the expiry of Greece's third bailout programme last month.
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Some workers for Instacart, one of the most popular US grocery delivery apps, went on strike Monday, demanding better pay and health protections as they risk exposing themselves to the coronavirus to deliver essentials to people on lockdown.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CRISIS On Monday, more than 30,000 public-school teachers and employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District went on strike, protesting for higher pay, smaller class sizes and more support staff for their students.
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When Dalida Ahmic, then a room service worker at the Battery Wharf Hotel in Boston, went on strike with Unite Here in September, she watched a stream of Uber Eats and Grubhub delivery workers walk into the lobby.
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And in July, fulfillment center employees in Minneapolis working with the Awood Center, a labor rights organization serving East African immigrants, went on strike during some of Amazon's busiest delivery days to demand reduced quotas and better treatment.
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Since midnight, UAW members with GM have been working without a contract and those working Sunday had to cross picket lines of their fellow union brethren, as UAW janitorial workers at the facilities went on strike at midnight.
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PARIS — Dozens of museum attendants at the Louvre went on strike on Thursday to protest what they said was the museum's poor handling of crowds at a temporary exhibition dedicated to Vermeer, with another strike possible on Friday.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs went on strike on Tuesday after rejecting a proposed wage deal, leading to the shutdown of one Shell-operated field and helping send Brent crude prices higher.
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BUDAPEST, March 12 (Reuters) - Workers at South Korea's Hankook Tire plant in Hungary went on strike on Tuesday, demanding an 18 percent wage increase, the VDSZ trade union said, as a labour shortage puts pressure on the car industry.
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And when French ferry operators went on strike during the summer of 2015, the M20 motorway turned into a lorry park, losing businesses £21m worth of stock that was ruined by the wait, according to the Road Haulage Association.
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PRISTINA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Kosovo's airport said eight out of 19 scheduled flights were cancelled on Friday when traffic air controllers went on strike for eight hours to protest at possible pay cuts in a public sector wage overhaul.
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Similarly, the women's liberation movement became a household concept thanks to tens of thousands of women who went on strike and marched through the streets in 1970, marking the 50-year anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Scenes from public schools in Denver, including the ones shared by these students, have picked up momentum on social media as Denver Public School teachers went on strike starting Monday in an effort to secure a higher base pay.
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IN "ATLAS SHRUGGED", published 230 years ago this October, Ayn Rand asked what would happen if society's most talented businesspeople got so fed up with being taxed, regulated and otherwise messed about by government that they went on strike.
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Sharara, where output is about 270,000 bpd, suffered brief closures when valves were switched off in March and April, and again when staff went on strike after a worker drowned in a swimming pool at the field in June.
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The Matildas — Australia's women's national team, which is currently ranked fifth in the world — have battled their federation for years and went on strike last year over the federation's refusal to pay the players more than $21,000 a year.
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The wireline workers who went on strike represent the older part of Verizon's business, and Verizon is focusing more on its mobile business and less on the broadband and phone lines that are the backbone of wireline workers' jobs.
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" Tortorici also reflected on the history of successful women's strikes, noting, "Polish women went on strike last October to protest a proposed abortion ban, the historically far-right Polish government voted down the legislation 352–58, with 18 abstaining.
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LONDON — Ryanair cabin crews in several European countries went on strike on Wednesday, the start of a planned two days of industrial action that has forced the low-cost carrier to cancel hundreds of flights, affecting around 50,000 passengers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Louvre closed its doors yesterday to thousands of visitors expecting entrance into the world's most attended museum after security personnel went on strike because of overcrowding problems within the famed Parisian palace.
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CHICAGO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Teachers in the Chicago Public Schools system, the third-largest school district in the U.S., went on strike on Thursday after protracted labor negotiations between the union and district leadership failed to produce a deal.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government said Monday that it would close more border checkpoints, as some medical workers went on strike to demand a complete ban on entries from mainland China to limit the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
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After they went on strike, it was included: The contract guarantees that social workers and nurses will not be outside contractors, and the school has committed to investing millions of dollars in training for current and new support staff.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has stopped printing bank notes for the first time in a century after workers employed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) took a lead from the bank's governor and went on strike for a bigger wage rise.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Over 200 employees from B&H Photo's Brooklyn warehouses went on strike today, with dozens of people also demonstrating outside the company's Manhattan retail store this morning to urge a boycott of the electronics giant.
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Hundreds of schools in Kentucky cancelled classes late last month after teachers called out sick to protest another pension bill, and West Virginia teachers went on strike in February to kill a bill that would introduce charter schools into the state.
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A further 900 workers went on strike on Monday, joining almost 700 who walked out last week, and the Safe union said it would consider in the next few days whether to widen the strike to all of its 2,250 members.
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If the government does not come to Rusal's rescue, workers will start banging their hard hats, the ministry source said - a reference to the Russian miners' protests of the 1990s, when hundreds of thousands went on strike, including in Sayanogorsk.
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This is the first time that AT&T wireless workers have gone on strike, which could result in closed retail stores during the weekend, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, whose AT&T members went on strike.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Doctors working in Kenyan state hospitals went on strike on Monday to demand fulfillment of a 2013 agreement between their union and the government that would raise their pay and improve working conditions, a senior union official said.
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Drivers for popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, who are listed as independent contractors not employees, went on strike earlier this year, calling on passengers across the nation to boycott the ride-sharing companies until better wages were provided.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean public sector doctors went on strike on Tuesday for the second time in less than a year to demand a further salary increase amid soaring living costs, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government struggles with a deteriorating economy.
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Thousands of medical workers in Hong Kong went on strike starting Monday to compel the city's government to accede to a demand for a complete shutdown of its borders with mainland China to keep out the spread of the virus.
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When air traffic controllers went on strike in 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 controllers and rallied the public against their union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, emphasizing that every controller had taken a no-strike pledge upon being hired.
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German services union Verdi, which represents about 1,000 cabin crew at Ryanair and took part in Friday's walkout, called for a reversal of the "scandalous" cuts it said were targeted at bases where a large proportion of staff went on strike.
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"My paycheck is going to grow and that's great, but I really think we are part of the start to this national wave," she said, also pointing to Los Angeles, where teachers went on strike for six days last month.
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Drivers went on strike in San Francisco and San Diego as well, hoping to use the moment to shift the spotlight away from Lyft's IPO (and Uber's forthcoming public offering as well) to the more pressing concern about the future of ride-hailing.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the thousands of water lorry drivers who shore up parched Chennai's overtaxed water delivery system went on strike for three days last month, to protest a ruling restricting their access to groundwater, a water crisis ensued.
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KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, June 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Friday to demand better security at hospitals days after junior doctors in the city of Kolkata were attacked, leaving services in many government-run health facilities paralysed.
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When her lovers left her for younger women, she designed their wedding dresses; when her 4,000 female factory employees went on strike in 20103, demanding better hours and wages, one of her biographers maintains that the 1939 closure of her shops was retaliation.
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HONG KONG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Hundreds of medical workers went on strike in Hong Kong on Monday to demand the government shuts the border with mainland China to prevent the spread of a coronavirus and ease pressure on a stretched health sector.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 15 (Reuters) - South African power firm Eskom on Wednesday sought arbitration in a dispute with unions over whether some staff who went on strike illegally should be disciplined, threatening to delay implementation of a wage deal to end the crippling stoppage.
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BEIRUT, May 6 (Reuters) - Employees of the Lebanese central bank, who went on strike on Monday over state budget proposals that would cut their benefits, will decide their next step at a meeting on Tuesday, the head of their syndicate Abbas Awada said.
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Gold miners who went on strike in September received death threats from a paramilitary group and threats of layoffs from Gran Colombia Gold, a Canadian multinational previously accused of financing death squads (the lawyer representing their union was gunned down the following weekend).
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Fourteen workers at restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, in London, went on strike to demand an increase in pay to 10 pounds ($13) an hour, an end to so-called zero-hour contracts which offer no fixed hours, and more trade union recognition.
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It would be the first national postal strike since thousands of workers went on strike in October here 2009, creating a massive backlog of undelivered letters and forcing Royal Mail to hire temporary staff to cope with the strike and the Christmas rush.
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The musicians of the fabled Philadelphia Orchestra went on strike on Friday just before their season-opening gala concert, rattling the classical music world and silencing one of the nation's great ensembles a little more than four years after it emerged from bankruptcy.
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A new bout of labor unrest hit the classical music world on Friday when the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra went on strike after rejecting a management proposal they said would cut their pay, freeze their pensions and reduce the orchestra's size.
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About 4,700 members of Transport Workers Union Local 234 went on strike on Monday night after failing to reach a deal with SEPTA on issues including healthcare and pension benefits, shuttering bus, trolley and rail services that provide 900,000 rides a day.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese central bank employees went on strike on Monday over state budget proposals that would cut their benefits but Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said failure to pass a "realistic" budget would be like a "suicide operation" against the economy.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Hundreds of soldiers went on strike in the Somali capital on Sunday, blocking roads and forcing businesses to close in protest over unpaid salaries, a challenge for the new president who has vowed to defeat Islamist militant group, al Shabaab.
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PARIS — Travel was upended, schools were closed and tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Thursday as railway workers, teachers, students and air traffic controllers went on strike to protest President Emmanuel Macron's economic and social policies.
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A new round of labor upheaval hit the classical music world on Sunday night, when the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the finest ensembles in the nation, went on strike in an effort to preserve their defined-benefit pension plan.
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Argentina did not play a single international match nor did it have coaching staff from 2015 through the end of 2017, when the players went on strike over continuing issues with the federation over its support (or lack thereof) of women's soccer.
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" Twitter user @NathalieNash uploaded photos of empty chairs with messages from teachers who went on strike on Monday: "I didn't come because I'm tired of walking full of fear, and I don't want my female students to go through the same thing.
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Just three days after Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 64th season with a starry new production of Puccini's "La Bohème," the music stopped on Tuesday as the musicians in its orchestra went on strike to protest cuts being sought by the management.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers went on strike on Thursday and set up picket lines outside many of the city's 500 public schools, as union leaders and officials of the third-largest U.S. school district pushed ahead with negotiations over a new contract.
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She gained recognition when she went on strike from school last year to protest her government's inaction on climate change, sparking a series of worldwide demonstrations, most recently the September 20 strike that drew an estimated 4 million people around the world.
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If all these men went on strike at once, Pret a Manger would have to discontinue their almond croissants, which are simply the messiest of the croissant family (flakes of pastry and little delicious bits of nut, all over the shop, like sand).
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Teachers in Oklahoma — where public schools in Oklahoma have seen the biggest cuts in the country in per-pupil funding, and their teachers rank near the bottom in average pay — watched intently as their counterparts in West Virginia went on strike earlier this month.
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Carrie Lam, chief executive of Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, was speaking hours after more than 2,500 workers from the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA) went on strike to call for the border to be shut and better protection for hospital staff, among other demands.
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As drivers around the world went on strike just days before Uber's IPO, they shared harrowing stories of being overworked and underpaid, subjected to a frustratingly opaque payment system, and even sleeping in their cars in order to save enough money to get by.
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COLOMBO, April 24 (Reuters) - Thousands of Sri Lankan motorists were queuing for fuel on Monday after workers at the state-run oil firm went on strike, demanding the government scrap a deal which they say would give India too much influence over fuel prices.
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In June, rioters in southern Mali ransacked local government buildings following a dispute between workers and management at Randgold's Loulo and Gounkoto gold mines, while in April workers went on strike there over bonus payments, though the stand-off was resolved within a day.
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When the owners of the fields Sagnet was working in decided suddenly to change the way the crop was to be picked – making the work more difficult but offering no extra pay - the young Cameroonian led a revolt and the labor force went on strike.
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When Chicago teachers went on strike in 2012, demanding fair evaluations, protections for their health benefits, and basic air conditioning in their classrooms, among other things, observers in the press and in the Democratic Party worried about its implications for Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
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The GM strike is inspiring new hope at auto plants in the SouthThe strike of over 20173,000 GM workers entering its second week is the longest strike that the UAW has had at GM since 1970, when workers went on strike for 67 days.
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"When we joined together and went on strike for $15 and union rights seven years ago, nobody gave us a shot, but now candidates for president of the United States are standing right by our side," Grace Glahn, a Des Moines, Iowa, McDonald's worker, said.
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Letter From Europe PARIS — It was published several years ago, but a cartoon on the front page of the French newspaper Le Monde roughly summed up the situation across the country last Thursday when several hundred thousand public employees and students went on strike.
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Maybe it's unfair to say that Italian air traffic controllers went on strike because Italy was playing Sweden in the 2016 Euros today, but let's just say that Italian air traffic controllers were on strike while Italy was playing Sweden in the 2016 Euros today.
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On Thursday, tens of thousands of railway workers, teachers and air traffic controllers went on strike across France to protest salary freezes for civil servants and Mr. Macron's pledge to cut 120,000 public-sector jobs and introduce merit-based pay and use more private contractors.
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On May 2, 2001, almost every Dutch doctor went on strike for three days because the government was refusing to provide support for the after-hours program despite pleas from its originator Giesen and others about the necessity of preventing burnout among their peers.
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As they have done half a dozen times since the beginning of the year, doctors and nurses again went on strike in late March, walking out of the central hospital, blocking new patients from entering and encouraging existing patients to seek private treatment elsewhere.
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"Instead of making our case at the steps of the Capitol, we have the opportunity to make our voices heard at the ballot box," Oklahoma Education Association President Alicia Priest said on April 12, after teachers in the state went on strike for nine days.
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Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement Thursday after a week-long strike, leaving classes canceled again Friday in the nation's 3rd largest school district, per the AP. The big picture: Nearly 25,000 members of the union went on strike Oct.
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About 250 ABX pilots, who belong to a local Teamsters union in Ohio, first went on strike before Thanksgiving because of what they say is an understaffing crisis resulting in 8,000 emergency flights for customers like Amazon and DHL this year that upended some of their lives.
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Clearly written in the long shadow of the concentration camps, the book also springs from May 1968 (its original publication date was 1970), when French students, workers, artists, intellectuals and, late and grudgingly, the left-wing establishment went on strike against de Gaulle's right-wing government.
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City services were tapped dry; sewage workers went on strike; and the part of town that's now home to M&M's World and The Lion King was overrun with smutty movie theaters, massage parlors, and X-rated bookshops, many of which were often raided by the police.
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That's why last year, and in previous years, women all over the country went on strike—thousands walked out of their jobs early to show the difference in how many more hours they'd have to put in to earn the same amount of money as men.
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"Does it matter to us that last season our base salary was more than 18 percent less than the Boston Symphony, and over 24 percent less than that of the San Francisco Symphony?" the Philadelphia musicians asked in a statement released when they went on strike.
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This year the players of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra went on strike to resist changes to their pension plan, which they wound up accepting; last fall, Lyric Opera of Chicago's orchestra held a brief strike before agreeing to a contract that guaranteed them fewer weeks of work.
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PARIS — In the icy winter of 1905, many of the women who hand-painted the world-famous Limoges vases and figurines went on strike in France — not because they were poorly paid or toiled long hours, but because they were prey to the factory overseer's sexual urges.
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Workers occasionally went on strike over their working hours, but by 1875 the annual production of 2.5 million watches — once a luxury item of the well-to-do — shows that they were at least beginning to afford the means of knowing when their shifts would end.
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After 150 cooks and dishwashers represented by the union Unite Here Local 11 went on strike when contract negotiations with Sodexo broke down, all seven qualifying candidates announced they would not cross the workers&apos picket line to attend the debate, putting its fate in jeopardy.
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That is why the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival is joining thousands of fast-food workers today as they march in Memphis, following in the footsteps of the sanitation workers who went on strike 50 years ago and carrying their work forward.
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Earlier this month Indian tobacco companies, some backed by "Big Tobacco" firms in the West, effectively went on strike by closing factories in protest against demands that 22015 percent of a cigarette packet's surface be covered by health warnings, up from the older requirement of 250 percent.
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So, in honor of the 76th Annual Golden Globes, we're looking back 28 years, from 2018 to 1990, and showing off the best red carpet looks from each (that is, except for 2008, when the Writers Guild of America went on strike and got the whole event was cancelled).
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His latest break-out, in which armed men landed in a hijacked helicopter in a prison courtyard to free him from an adjacent visitor room and then fly him out, prompted a political debate over security in France, where wardens went on strike last year over safety standards.
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Prior to Stop & Shop, the last major supermarket strike in the United States occurred in 2003, when 70,000 workers at 850 Albertson's, Von's, and Ralph's supermarkets across southern California went on strike over cuts to their health care, at the time the longest work stoppage in U.S. history.
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Wage restraint is likely to prove challenging, as demonstrated in April 2016 when oil refinery workers went on strike against public-sector wage reform.. Fitch expects capital spending to be close to budgeted amounts in FY281, after 29910% execution in FY244, 220% in FY700 and 21588% in FY203.
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Then in January 2016, China Labor Bulletin, a non-government organisation that promotes workers' rights in China, reported that in the city of Dongguan, in the southern Guangdong province, around 1,000 cab drivers went on strike, again calling for the government to crack down on services like Uber.
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Another promising example of workers achieving collective voice across a sector is the Fight for $15 and a Union campaign in the fast-food sector, where New York City workers went on strike and won a wage board to set minimum wages for the sector as a whole.
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The most serious accident at a commercial nuclear power plant in US history occurred there in 1979 TOTAL RECALL Quiz time Members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike against what company this week, demanding higher hourly wages, lump sum payments and a better profit sharing plan?
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Just one day after protesting drivers forced Lyft to move its IPO roadshow meeting in San Francisco (while others went on strike in Los Angeles after Lyft competitor Uber cut its per-mile pay rates), the company is announcing new, long-planned initiatives it says are aimed at reducing drivers' expenses.
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Like the teachers who went on strike in West Virginia and Oklahoma, teachers in Arizona are among the lowest-paid in the country and have suffered some of the deepest cuts to public school funding — largely a result of steep Republican tax cuts that didn't bring the promised economic windfall.
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