Strike
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World
Britain Is Miserable, but Britons Are Fighting Back
LONDON — Britain is languishing, and the signs are everywhere. Inflation is in double digits, and the recession — the…
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Business
New York Times Union Announces One-Day Strike
Negotiators for the company and the union, which represents most of the newsroom, have failed to come to an agreement…
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Business
Britain Counts Down to Christmas With a List of Labor Walkouts
Job actions by ambulance staff, nurses, rail workers and others will hit Britain every day between now and Dec. 25.
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US
Congress Is Trying to Avert a Rail Strike. Here’s How and Why.
President Biden called on Congress to pass legislation to head off a holiday-season rail strike, warning that a disruption to…
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Business
Some Rail Workers, Seeking Sick Days, Say Biden Betrayed Them
The request for Congress to impose contract terms that several unions had rejected rankled rank-and-file members who had rallied behind…
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US
Congressional Leaders Say They Will Act to Prevent Rail Strike
President Biden told lawmakers that the U.S. economy would be “at risk” if rail workers went on strike next month.
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World
Family of Egyptian Political Prisoner Says He Had Near-Death Experience
CAIRO — Alaa Abd El Fattah, Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, is thin, frail and psychologically unstable after spending months with…
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Business
Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally
Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday at dozens of unionized locations nationwide, citing what they say is the company’s…