A Teamsters union of 18,000 Costco workers has voted to authorize a strike within the next two weeks if their contract demands are not met. The union claims in a statement that the wholesaler and ...

How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement turned into a massive statewide protest. The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a ...

Eighty-five percent of Costco's unionized employees voted to authorize a strike. The strike would affect 50 stores across the U.S. in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington. As the Costco ...

Gates' warnings come amid uncertainty regarding U.S. pandemic preparedness policies. Federal health agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control ...

More than 100 educators at Tufts University will strike for two days starting Monday, canceling classes for some undergraduate students two weeks into the semester. SEIU Local 509, the union that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Workers at military contractor Serco are set to strike over a deal being negotiated by the company and the ...

Ukraine has hit one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries in a drone strike overnight, Russian media reports have said. Large flames and plumes of smoke rose from the Ryazan Oil Refinery after ...

Canadian National Railway is bracing for a work stoppage Tuesday after members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in Canada issued a 72-hour strike notice. The union ...

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers says it has given Canadian National Railway a 72-hour strike notice. The union represents about 750 employees at CN who work in signals and ...

A woman has driven her car into a crowd of protesters in Serbia's capital as a student-led strike shuttered businesses across the country. Police in Belgrade said that they detained the 24-year ...