Strike

More than 130 MetroAccess workers went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

Raymond Jackson, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, speaks on why Circulator bus drivers are going on strike. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Nurses at Howard University Hospital are striking Monday, calling for higher wages and increased staffing levels. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with the health care providers about their frustrations.

Nurses at Howard University Hospital are striking on Monday, calling for higher wages and increased staffing levels. News4’s Megan McGrath reports..

Teachers across Minneapolis are on strike after their demands for better pay, smaller class sizes and mental health resources were not met by the school district.

Deere workers approved a new contract Wednesday that will deliver 10% raises immediately and end a monthlong strike for more than 10,000 employees

The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 members will begin a nationwide strike on Monday if it does not reach a deal that satisfies demands for fair and safe working conditions.

A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry.

Work at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike.

The union is calling for a new, three-year basic agreement that would provide behind-the-scenes workers higher pay, larger contributions to health and pension plans, meal breaks, improved rest periods and a bigger cut of the profits from streaming productions.

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.

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.

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...

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…

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…