Workers at the Carl Icahn-owned Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City have been on strike for a month. Today, the casino announced it is shutting down. About 3,000 jobs will be lost.
Philadelphia airport workers have voted 461-5 “to walk off their jobs in protest during the Democratic National Convention this month.” lmao. Let the chaos begin!
Strikes Still Work
For the vast majority of working Americans, wages have been almost flat for the past 35 years. How can regular working people get more money? Organize. And strike.
After working without a contract for more than eight months, 39,000 union Verizon workers in the Northeast are on strike. Support them by not wasting your life looking at screens. It’s a beautiful day outside.
Tomorrow, the Chicago Teachers Union will hold a one-day walkout to protest budget cuts, pay, and contract issues. “It has been death by a thousand cuts,” one teacher says. “But recently it’s felt more like, I don’t know, chopping off our arms.”
Apple Has a Work Around if a Court Orders Them to Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone: Everyone Quits
Even if a court does force Apple to create software that would unlock an encrypted iPhone, it might have some trouble enforcing it: Some engineers tell the New York Times they would sooner quit their jobs.
New Jersey Commuters, Prepare for Hell
Chris Christie may be out of the presidential race, but soon he will get a chance to revel in the glory of plunging thousands of his state’s commuters into a living hell. It’s almost time for a transit strike!
Hundreds of Uber Drivers Are Striking in New York City
Several hundred New York City-based Uber drivers are collectively striking against the car-sharing startup today, according to fliers distributed to riders over the past few days and a Facebook event page administered by a driver named Farrukh Khamdamov. According to that page’s description, the strike (and an…
No School in Seattle: Striking Teachers Refuse to Swallow District's Bullshit
School was scheduled to start Wednesday for more than 50,000 Seattle students, but they’re all staying home or heading back to day camps because Seattle Public Schools has asked teachers to work longer hours, with less recess, for a minimal increase in pay. The teachers, who have gone six years without even a…
Farmworkers in Mexico are on strike for the first time in decades, and they probably have a pretty good reason.
Happy National Adjunct Walkout Day
If you find your college classroom un-taught today, do not be alarmed: it's for a good cause.
American Oil Workers Are on Strike
What with big news such as the Super Bowl and its advertisements, you may have missed the smaller news that large numbers of American oil workers have walked off the job. They have.
New York Airport Workers Go On Strike Over Ebola
LaGuardia Airport employees responsible for cleaning airplanes and bathrooms staged a walkout this week, saying they're not being adequately protected against the Ebola virus.
Transit workers in Brazil will vote tomorrow on whether to resume a strike that has brought gridlock to Sao Paulo. The day after that, the World Cup begins, in Sao Paulo. Lol. Sports!
Unions Should Buy a Fast Food Franchise
Today, the labor coalition leading the ongoing movement to raise wages for fast food workers announced that workers in 150 cities around the world will walk out and/ or strike on May 15. That's fine and dandy. But might there be a better way for this movement to operate?
Organizers say that 100 people were arrested in 11 cities across the country yesterday during protests over Wal-Mart's low wages. They also say they plan to protest Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday, just like last year.
Thousands of Fast-Food Workers Have Walked Out Demanding Better Pay
A movement of one-day strikes carried out across the country by low-wage fast-food workers is gaining steam, with strikers this week in St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit and Flint adding their strength to previous walkouts in New York and Chicago. Today: Milwaukee.
Some 30,000 inmates across two-thirds of California's prisons launched a hunger strike on Monday, refusing meals and skipping work and classes in a protest, organized by inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in northern California, against unjust isolation practices.
Today, Wal-Mart workers in at least three cities launched the first "prolonged strikes" in the company's history.
Low-Wage Workers Go on Strike in Chicago, Demanding $15 Per Hour
An estimated 500 workers from various fast food restaurants and retail stores around Chicago went on strike this morning. The employees, from restaurants like McDonald’s and Subway and stores like Sears, Nike, and Victoria's Secret, are demanding an increase in the minimum wage—to $15—and for the ability to unionize.
