Strike
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World
U.K. Nurses, Emergency Responders and Rail Workers Walk Out
Continuing strikes over pay and economic conditions are likely to disrupt travel and services during the holiday season. Here’s what…
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News
Britain Is Miserable, but Britons Are Fighting Back
LONDON — Britain is languishing, and the signs are everywhere. Inflation is in double digits, and the recession — the…
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Finance
New York Times Union Announces One-Day Strike
Negotiators for the company and the union, which represents most of the newsroom, have failed to come to an agreement…
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Finance
Britain Counts Down to Christmas With a List of Labor Walkouts
Job actions by ambulance staff, nurses, rail workers and others will hit Britain every day between now and Dec. 25.
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World
Congress Is Trying to Avert a Rail Strike. Here’s How and Why.
President Biden called on Congress to pass legislation to head off a holiday-season rail strike, warning that a disruption to…
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Finance
Some Rail Workers, Seeking Sick Days, Say Biden Betrayed Them
The request for Congress to impose contract terms that several unions had rejected rankled rank-and-file members who had rallied behind…
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World
Congressional Leaders Say They Will Act to Prevent Rail Strike
President Biden told lawmakers that the U.S. economy would be “at risk” if rail workers went on strike next month.
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World
Family of Egyptian Political Prisoner Says He Had Near-Death Experience
CAIRO — Alaa Abd El Fattah, Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, is thin, frail and psychologically unstable after spending months with…
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Finance
Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally
Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday at dozens of unionized locations nationwide, citing what they say is the company’s…