California
The dispute between the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers, who are threatening to strike over deep pay cuts, is likely to be repeated in a growing number of desperate struggles between increasingly impoverished government agencies and public employee unions, experts say.
Nov. 15, 1992
Business
Given the seeming success of President Clinton’s involvement in the American Airlines flight attendants’ strike, the White House has begun sketching out a role for itself in future labor disputes.
Dec. 2, 1993
Company Town Blog
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Feb. 20, 2012
On this city’s northeast side, where strip shopping centers give way to smokestacks and cornfields, 22nd Street is the demarcation line for a global battle on three fronts.
Sept. 5, 1994
World & Nation
About 5,000 rallied in Pittsburgh, Pa., to support a number of labor strikes--including those at Eastern Airlines, in Appalachian coal mines and at telephone companies around the country.
Aug. 14, 1989
Show Tracker
Nov. 13, 2007
A sign on the Detroit Pizza Factory, a hole-in-the-wall lunch spot downtown, shows where its loyalties lie as a strike against the city’s two newspapers enters its second week: “We Do Not Serve Scabs.”
July 21, 1995
The U.S. organized labor movement, confounded for years by declining membership and power, is finding new strength in the recently completed strike by American Airlines flight attendants.
Is half the world on strike, about to strike or coming off a strike?
Sept. 29, 2000
Opinion
Elected officials are expected to express their positions on important matters, both in running for office and while serving. That’s normal politics.
July 18, 2023