Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On October 1, the 2021 Mercy Hospital strike in Buffalo, New York began when hundreds of nurses belonging to the Communications Workers of America did not reach agreements with Catholic Health. [7] The same day, 450 workers of Special Metals Corporation began a strike in Huntington, West Virginia .
Pullman Strike - Began on May 11, 1894, after workers for the Pullman Company began strike after a reduction in wages. The strike spread nationwide and shut down most railroad traffic west of Detroit. The strike lasted several months and 30 strikers were killed in various riots and clashes with government forces. 30 57
On 1 April, 32 residential tenants in Chicago went on strike. [7] One Los Angeles landlord, while trying to prevent a rent strike by emailing 300 tenants that they owe rent, inadvertently caused one by cc'ing , and not bcc'ing those tenants on the list who used the contact information to coordinate a strike. [ 8 ]
(The Center Square) – Chicago city residents are giving elected officials an earful as the city looks to craft a budget facing a billion dollar deficit. Monday morning, the city council started ...
2013 California prisoner hunger strike – Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison. 2021 Youth hunger strike for democracy—Protest by 20 Arizona college students to urge the White House and the US Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas attempted suicide earlier this week and is now on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera ...
On Monday, young people from Texas, Florida, Utah and Virginia also joined the hunger strike. [6] Harvard Law School Professor and nationally renown author, Lawrence Lessig, joined the students in the hunger strike as well. [7] [8] Radio host, Joe Madison, who had been on hunger strike for democracy for 35 days, [9] also joined them. [7]
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said Monday that officers were called to monitor a protest downtown about 3 p.m. "We responded to some protesters walking through the immediate downtown ...