Two years ago, Sudan’s dictator of thirty years Omar al-Bashir was ousted when hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets. The military was then pressured by the people and removed him from power. The military leaders and civilian groups...
Members of the Northwest Carpenters Union – a union representing 12,000 workers in Western and Central Washington—voted from Thursday, Oct. 7, to October 11 on whether to accept the fifth tentative agreement with the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of...
After decades with very few strikes, this fall is seeing a mini strike wave with small strikes scattered throughout the U.S. And in the past month, there have been four major strikes: 2,000 Seattle carpenters just ended a winning strike; 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s...
More than 10,000 workers at John Deere, one of the largest farm equipment manufacturers in the U.S., went on strike last week at more than a dozen plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas — the first major walkout at the company in over three decades. Deere workers had...
On October 5, 1,400 Kellogg’s workers in cereal plants went on strike in Battle Creek, Michigan; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Omaha, Nebraska and Memphis, Tennessee. This is the first Kellogg’s cereal workers strike since 1972. It was called by the union (BCTGM Local 3G)...
