Tag: Strikes

The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.

The Academy Awards ceremony, which this year will take place on March 10, traditionally provides a reliable moment of optimism for a perennially anxious industry. The Oscars are the climax of an awards season that’s a prolonged exercise in collective congratulation, and in early March the rest of the year still looks bright. The Sundance […]

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And … Action: Filming Is Back in New York

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the small park in Sunnyside, Queens. A kid sailed back and forth on a swing. Other children scampered over a jungle gym and played basketball. But upon closer inspection, the streetlamp lying on its side turned out to be a prop. So was the police car on […]

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G.M. Profits Hurt by Unsold Electric Vehicles and Strike

General Motors said on Tuesday that its profit in the final three months of 2023 was depressed by losses stemming from unsold electric vehicles and the cost of a 40-day strike at some of its U.S. plants. The automaker, which has been banking on a rapid rise in sales of battery-powered models, earned $2.1 billion […]

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Nationwide Union Strike Tests Milei’s Policies for Argentina

It has been six weeks since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and since then, gas prices have doubled, inflation has soared and the value of the national currency has plummeted. Such turmoil, he had warned, should be expected. Fixing decades of economic problems would first require more pain, he said. Yet on Wednesday, […]

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A Trump Reelection Will Be Hell on American Workers

As his replacement, Trump nominated Eugene Scalia, a former corporate lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. While a BigLaw attorney, Scalia made a living defending corporations from the very department he was chosen to head. He boasted a powerhouse clientele, including Boeing (which he defended […]

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Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class

As his replacement, Trump nominated Eugene Scalia, a former corporate lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. While a BigLaw attorney, Scalia made a living defending corporations from the very department he was chosen to head. He boasted a powerhouse clientele, including Boeing (which he defended […]

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Cal State Faculty Begin Largest U.S. Strike of University Professors

In the largest university faculty strike in U.S. history, thousands of professors and lecturers throughout the California State University system walked off the job on Monday to demand higher compensation, a protest that was expected to cancel most classes early in the academic period. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors […]

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Germany’s Economy Stalls Amid Falling Output and Political Bickering

Germany started the year with Berlin’s streets choked with tractors and farmers blaring horns in furious protest of proposed budget cuts. Then train engineers walked off the job to demand better pay, stranding commuters and carloads of freight and leaving the country angry and gridlocked. The same could be said for the state of the […]

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San Francisco Rent Strike: Tenants Use Labor Tactics to Challenge Landlords

Auto workers in Detroit. Actors and screenwriters in Hollywood. Teachers in Portland, Ore. During a wave of labor unrest over the past year in which more than 500,000 American workers went on strike, a small group of San Franciscans has brought a similar vein of activism to a different arena: their homes. Tenants in 65 […]

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From A.I. to inflation, 11 business charts that explain 2023

It has been a confusing year for the economy and markets. At the start of 2023, economists largely predicted a global recession, and Wall Street was bearish on stocks, with many analysts expecting the S&P 500 to finish the year just a touch higher than where it started. Fast-forward 12 months: No recession (yet) and […]

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Tesla Strike in Sweden Highlights a Culture Clash

The Tesla technicians who walked off their jobs in Sweden say they still support the mission of the American company and its headline-grabbing chief executive. But they also want Tesla to accept the Swedish way of doing business. They call it the Swedish Model, a way of life that has defined the country’s economy for […]

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The Newest Union Members Are Undergrads

Sam Betsko figured out fast that being a resident assistant in a college dorm would demand more than helping locked-out students and pleading with sophomores to, for the love of God, turn down the music. In her role at Boston University, there were days of compulsory, unpaid training, and the specter of arbitrary discipline from […]

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The Actors’ Union May Have Come Up Short in the A.I. Wars

But the fact that SAG-AFTRA voted to strike at all, and the gains it made, showed that its leadership and members are becoming more unified and engaged in making changes in their industry, amid a wave of labor organizing across the country. The “unity and solidarity” built on the picket lines alongside the WGA and […]

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Did the Actors’ Union Really Win?

But the fact that SAG-AFTRA voted to strike at all, and the gains it made, showed that its leadership and members are becoming more unified and engaged in making changes in their industry, amid a wave of labor organizing across the country. The “unity and solidarity” built on the picket lines alongside the WGA and […]

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U.S. Job Growth Holds Up as Economy Gradually Cools

The U.S. economy continued to pump out jobs in November, suggesting there is still juice left in a labor market that has been slowing almost imperceptibly since last year’s pandemic rebound. Employers added 199,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent, from 3.9 percent. The increase […]

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DHL Workers at Kentucky Air Cargo Hub Go on Strike

More than 1,100 workers at DHL Express’s global air cargo hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport went on strike on Thursday after months of failed negotiations with the parcel carrier. A group of DHL workers at the hub who load and unload planes voted in April to unionize with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, […]

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Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt

Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues. Long after he took a position at […]

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The Hilarious Reason Elon Musk May Regret Going to War With Sweden

The solution? Reverse course on a party maxim to oust Trump from the public consciousness, according to Democratic leadership, who no longer feel that ignoring the real estate mogul is an effective tactic and instead are quietly hoping for live broadcasting of his notorious campaign rallies, reported The New York Times. “Not having the day-to-day […]

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Portland Teachers’ Strike Ends After More Than Three Weeks

The News The union representing teachers, counselors and other school employees in Portland, Ore., reached a tentative deal with the city’s public school district on Sunday, ending a strike that has kept nearly 45,000 students out of classes for more than three weeks in Oregon’s largest district. Background: The fight was over pay, class sizes […]

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Portland Teachers’ Strike Ends After More Than Three Weeks

The News The union representing teachers, counselors and other school employees in Portland, Ore., reached a tentative deal with the city’s public school district on Sunday, ending a strike that has kept nearly 45,000 students out of classes for more than three weeks in Oregon’s largest district. Background: The fight was over pay, class sizes […]

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How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

This article is from Headway, an initiative from The New York Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress. Headway looks for promising solutions, notable experiments and lessons from what has been tried. Jack Walker is a union man. He drives a garbage truck in Memphis, where his route can take him barreling […]

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U.A.W. Members at General Motors Ratify Contract

United Automobile Workers union members at General Motors have ratified a tentative contract in a closely contested vote, according to a tally of results from all the G.M. locals posted by the union on Thursday. The contract had the support of 55 percent of the nearly 36,000 members voting. Majorities at several large G.M. factories […]

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Starbucks Workers Plan Walkout During Red Cup Giveaway Day

Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers plan to walk off the job on Thursday to press their demands for contract negotiations and spotlight their complaints over staffing and scheduling issues. The stoppage coincides with an annual Starbucks promotion, Red Cup Day, in which customers receive bright-red reusable cups if they order a holiday-themed beverage, like a […]

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G.M.’s New Contract With U.A.W. Faces Surprisingly Stiff Opposition

A United Automobile Workers union vote on a tentative contract agreement with General Motors that provides record wage increases has run into unexpectedly strong resistance from veteran workers. Voting at most union locals has been completed and the final result, due as early as Thursday evening, will very likely be decided by a narrow margin. […]

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NYC Office Cleaners Risked Their Lives at Work. Now They May Strike.

Danuta Klimas, an office cleaner, went back to work in Lower Manhattan days after the Sept. 11 attacks, as toxic dust from ground zero hung in the air. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer years later. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was working in the same building, even after discovering that she […]

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Getting Hollywood Back Up and Running Won’t Be Easy

Daisy Edgar-Jones, the 25-year-old British actress with an increasingly crowded dance card, will soon experience just how complicated Hollywood’s rush to return to work is going to be. Now that a tentative deal has been reached in the actors’ strike — and assuming union members approve the new contract in the coming days — Ms. […]

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‘Our Family Can Have a Future’: Ford Workers on a New Union Contract

Before autoworkers went on strike in September, Dave and Bailey Hodge were struggling to juggle the demands of working at a Ford Motor plant in Michigan and raising their young family. Both were working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, to earn enough to cover monthly bills, car payments and the mortgage on a home […]

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SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood Studios Agree to Deal to End Actors’ Strike

One of the longest labor crises in Hollywood history is finally coming to an end. SAG-AFTRA, the union representing tens of thousands of actors, reached a tentative deal for a new contract with entertainment companies on Wednesday, clearing the way for the $134 billion American movie and television business to swing back into motion. Hollywood’s […]

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