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Workers can accrue 4 points by being on-call for 14 straight days, but any time off, even for illness or a family emergency, resets the clock. [9] Unions representing about 17,000 workers threatened to strike over the points system, but BNSF Railway sued and won a restraining order to prevent the unions from striking.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
1952 Oil workers strike: 1952 nationwide 85,700 [48] [49] 1974 US textile workers strike: 1974 nationwide 85,000 Verizon Strike: 2000 nationwide 83,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike [50] [51] 1948 nationwide 80,000 (~) [52] 1994 US truckers strike: 1994 nationwide 80,000 [27] 1950 Western Electric strike: 1950 nationwide 78,000 [7] 1955 Ford Motor ...
The company says the strike-affected stores will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time every day, with pharmacies in these locations open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 ...
The unionized workers currently have a contact that is expiring on Jan. 31, 2025. Of the 18,000 Teamsters members represented by the contract, 85% of them voted to authorize a strike if an ...
Amazon workers are planning a massive day of action on Black Friday in an effort to draw attention to alleged exploitation on the part of the online retail giant.. Protests and strikes in more ...
SS California strike; Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike; Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937; 1936 Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike; Citrus Strike of 1936; 1937 [11] 1,860,62 Little Steel strike; Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike; Fleischer Studios strike; 1937 New York City department store strikes; Pennsylvania chocolate workers' strike, 1937
Thousands of Costco workers prepared to strike with a midnight deadline drawing closer Friday while the worker's union and the company negotiated. The Teamsters union represents 18,000 Costco ...