Starbucks workers strike on “Red Cup Day”
You may have to hold off on your first taste of Starbucks’ peppermint mocha this year. The coffee giant dropped its holiday menu on Thursday, which also marks the famous Red Cup Day, on which Starbucks...
View ArticleCabin crew walk out as pay dispute halts Air Canada flights
Air Canada flight attendants, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), initiated a strike at 1 a.m. on August 16, 2025, after contract negotiations failed to yield an agreement....
View Article“I’m lucky,” says teen struck by lightning in Central Park
Fifteen-year-old Yassin Khalifa was struck by lightning this week while sheltering under a tree during a sudden thunderstorm in Central Park’s East Meadow. He was unconscious for several minutes and...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway walks out of Vanity Fair photoshoot in support of Condé Nast...
Anne Hathway walked out of a photo shoot with Vanity Fair to support the more than 400 workers in the Condé Nast Union who staged a work stoppage on Tuesday morning. Variety reported that Hathway was...
View ArticleWhy are thousands of Kaiser health care workers on strike? 5 questions answered
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike in Virginia, California, Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2023, after company...
View Article“Trail of death”: Staffing crisis sparks largest health care strike in U.S....
The day before close to 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in several states hit the bricks in the largest healthcare strike in American history, the Washington Post reported the results of an explosive...
View ArticleWriters Guild of America votes to officially end the Hollywood writers strike...
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has officially come to an end, just two days after the union reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television...
View ArticleUAW’s high-stakes gambit: This strike is a “potential paradigm shift”
The United Auto Workers strike against America’s big three automakers is a high-stakes gambit that comes at a time when an increasing number of Americans support the union movement — but the percentage...
View ArticleUAW goes on strike at three plants: Historic CEO-worker pay gap gets a...
Forty percent. It’s a figure that United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain cited repeatedly in the run-up to the union’s historic strike against the Big Three U.S. car manufacturers as he called...
View ArticleHire Adam Scott to walk your dog to support Hollywood strike crews
Celebrities are auctioning off their time to the highest bidder on eBay doing menial tasks like walking your dog or taking a pottery class with you to raise money to support the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA...
View ArticleEmmys postponed amid both writers and actors strikes
For the first time in more than 20 years, the Emmy Awards will be postponed due to the writers and actors strikes. The ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have caused an overhaul industry stoppage....
View Article“A king’s ransom”: SAG-AFTRA’s Fran Drescher calls out “maniacal” Hollywood...
Studio executives “ended up offering us basically bupkis,” Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, told Salon just over a week after the union made up of 160,000 members announced it would strike. Since...
View ArticlePennsylvania locomotive manufacturing workers are striking for greener jobs
Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like better pay, voting rights and health care benefits. They’re also asking for one unique condition: to shift their production...
View Article“It is disgusting”: Fran Drescher calls out “greedy” Hollywood execs in...
Actor and SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher went viral for blasting Hollywood executives for failing to avoid a strike and produce a new labor contract for actors in an impassioned speech Thursday....
View ArticleHollywood actors are now on strike too, joining writers on picket lines
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is on strike after talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed to produce a...
View ArticleKim Kardashian slammed for filming “American Horror Story” during WGA strike
Filming has all but come to a screeching halt since the Writers Guild of America strike clamped down during the first week of May, but for Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” it’s business as usual....
View ArticleUPS is making record profits — while workers like me are falling further behind
The price of almost everything has gone up. Whether you’re shopping at the grocery store, in line at the gas station or paying rent, we all have sticker shock. Like so many workers across the country,...
View ArticleUnited pilots picket for better contract after American, Southwest...
Following what the Air Line Pilots Association called “more than four years of empty promises,” 3,000 off-duty United Airlines pilots represented by the union protested at major airports across the...
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What to expect with TV writers on strike: First late night will go dark. Then...
The prevailing maxim of the so-called Golden Age of Television is that TV is a writer’s medium. Everybody says so: Longtime film stars explain their jump to the smaller screen by hailing the richness...
View ArticleStrikes on campus: A chance to take back college from the corporations
Here are some of the senior administrators I did not see joining us on the picket lines set up by striking teachers and staff at Rutgers University. Brian Strom, the chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical...
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