Strike

Essential workers are striking nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups organized rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say are crippling the U.S. economy.

Fairfax Connector workers are threatening another strike, saying contract negotiations are going nowhere. Union members went on a four-day strike in December. Now they say they are at a tipping point with the private company that runs their operations — Transdev — again “If they decide to come to the table and continue to play games, continue to take these…

Fairfax Connector workers are threatening another strike, raising safety concerns and saying contract negotiations are going nowhere. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports.

Employees of two major grocery store chains in the D.C. area rallied Wednesday to announce details on an upcoming vote that could cause thousands of workers to walk off the job. About 25,000 workers from hundreds of Giant Food and Safeway stores in D.C., Maryland and Virginia considered a strike over wages, healthcare and retirement benefits, the United Food...

A tentative agreement between Giant Food and union employees has been reached, but a possible strike by Safeway employees looms. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan reports.

Grocery store employees plan to rally in Southwest D.C. on Wednesday and announce a date for the strike vote that could lead 25,000 to walk out of Giant and Safeway stores.

The longest-running Metrobus strike the D.C. area has ever seen could soon come to an end.

President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that Iranian cultural sites were fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a...

Fairfax Connector bus drivers who were on strike have reached an agreement with Transdev and are expected to return to work Monday. More than 500 members of the ATU Local 1764 began picketing early Thursday, calling for for better pay, benefits and working conditions. The strike shut down nearly 85 percent of Fairfax Connector service, according to the union. About 30,000…

Fairfax Connector on Sunday schedule as Transdev workers strike.

Private and public workers in Paris called a general strike Thursday, which shut down most of Paris. They are protesting proposed changes to the country’s retirement system.

Paris police fired tear gas at demonstrators Thursday as the Eiffel Tower shut down, France’s high-speed trains came to a standstill and hundreds of thousands marched nationwide in a strike over the government’s plan to overhaul the retirement system. At least 90 people were arrested in Paris by evening as the protests wound down. Police said 65,000 people took to…

Dozens of Fairfax Connector routes are affected after talks between Transdev and the union representing workers broke down. News4’s Justin Finch reports live from the scene.

Thirty-thousand people in Northern Virginia could see a big impact to their daily commute. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports the Metrobus driver strike could extend to the Fairfax Connector.

The Chicago Teachers Union has voted to reject the final contract offer from Chicago Public Schools and will go on strike Thursday, the organization announced Wednesday.

Chicago Public Schools canceled all classes and activities for Thursday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the district’s CEO announced Wednesday morning, in anticipation of the Chicago Teachers Union moving forward with a strike.

The Chicago Teachers Union has voted to reject the final contract offer from Chicago Public Schools and will go on strike Thursday, the organization announced Wednesday.

British Airways says it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots’ 48-hour strike over pay. In a statement Monday, the airline said it had “no way of predicting how many (pilots) would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to fly.” As a result, it said it had “no option but to...

“Our teachers are the best in the world.” Garfield Preparatory Academy went all-out for teacher appreciation week with News4’s Molette Green.

Denver teachers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of going on strike after more than a year of negotiations over base pay. Rob Gould, lead negotiator for the Denver Classroom Teachers’ Association, said 93 percent of unionized teachers voted in favor of a strike. The union represents 5,635 educators in the Denver Public School system, which could see a strike as...