Strikes

Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, Sept. 15, 2023. Steelworkers at Britain's largest steel production plant have voted to go on strike for the first time in 40 years to protest against 2,800 job losses planned by Indian owner Tata Steel. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Steelworkers at the UK’s largest production plant vote to strike over job losses

Union officials say steelworkers at Britain’s largest steel production plant have voted to go on strike for the first time in 40 years.
 
Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, March 22, 2024. Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week. The doctors carried placards and chanted against the Kenyan government on Friday, saying it had failed to implement a raft of promises, including a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike during which people died from lack of care. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenyan hospital lays off 100 striking doctors as nationwide strike nears a month

 
FILE - A placard from the BMA (British Medical Association) is displayed during a strike at St George's Hospital, in London, on Sept. 22, 2023. Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a year-long dispute with unprecedented strike action. The British Medical Association and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, which represent so-called consultants, said Friday April 5, 2024 that 83% of those casting a vote backed the offer. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Senior doctors in England agree on a pay deal with the government to end a yearlong dispute

 
FILE - A member of the World Central Kitchen prepares a pallet with the humanitarian aid for transport to the port of Larnaca from where it will be shipped to Gaza, at a warehouse near Larnaca, Cyprus, on March 13, 2024. World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip after an apparent Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

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FILE - Two train drivers sit in the cockpit of a parked train outside the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Train drivers and some other train crew for Germany’s main national railway operator will see their working week reduced from 38 hours to 35 by 2029 without having their pay cut, but will have an option to work longer for more money, the two sides say. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Deal to end German rail strikes features a 35-hour work week with an option to work longer

 

Workers at Philadelphia sports stadium hit picket lines for one-day strike

Food service workers at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia are staging a one-day strike as contract negotiations continue with the firm that operates concessions at the stadium. (AP Video: Tassanee Vejpongsa)
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Medical professors queue to submit their resignations during a meeting at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 25, 2024. Senior doctors at dozens of hospitals in South Korea planned to submit their resignations Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions, their leader said.(Yoon Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP)

Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan

Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea have begun submitting their resignations in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions.
 
Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, March 22, 2024. Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week. The doctors carried placards and chanted against the Kenyan government on Friday, saying it had failed to implement a raft of promises, including a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike during which people died from lack of care. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Hundreds of Kenyan doctors protest in the streets as national strike enters second week

Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week.
 
Members of the Gyeonggi Province Medical Association stage a rally against the government's medical policy near the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. South Korea's government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. The banners read "Stop President Yoon Suk Yeol government's medical policy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Why are striking doctors in South Korea facing license suspensions and what’s next?

South Korea is poised to start suspending the licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors as punishment for their weekslong walkouts that have shaken hospital operations.
 
FILE - Passengers wait for a train in the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, March 11, 2024. Germany's state-owned main railway operator says that it and a union representing many train drivers have resumed talks in a bitter dispute over working hours and pay. It said Saturday, March 16, 2024 both sides are optimistic that they will achieve a result next week. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

German railway operator resumes talks with train drivers’ union in a long dispute

A union representing many German train drivers and the main national railway operator have resumed negotiations in a bitter dispute over working hours and pay.
 

Kenyan doctors strike nationwide. Patients left unattended or turned away at public hospitals

Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care.
 
Members of the Oscars crew come out for a round of applause in appreciation for their support during the strike during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Oscars’ strikes tributes highlight solidarity, and the possible labor struggles to come

Labor strife remains an issue in Hollywood after two major strikes were resolved, and the Academy Awards didn’t sidestep that.
 
Lufthansa aircrafts are parked behind a fence at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Many of Germany's train drivers staged a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in the latest installment of a long-running and bitter dispute over working hours with the country's main railway operator, while a walkout by cabin crew at Lufthansa added to disruption for travelers. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Another strike by German train drivers coincides with a walkout by Lufthansa cabin crew

Many of Germany’s train drivers are staging a 24-hour strike in the latest installment of a long-running and bitter dispute over working hours with the country’s main railway operator, while a walkout by cabin crew at Lufthansa is adding to disruptions for travelers.
 
Passengers wait for a train in the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, March 11, 2024. German train drivers union GDL called for another strike starting early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

A union for German train drivers calls for another strike in a bitter dispute over working hours

A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers has called for another strike in a long and bitter dispute with the state-owned main railway operator over working hours and pay, drawing sharp criticism from the country’s transport minister.
 
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more often ahead of this year's Paris Olympics because of sub-standard anti-doping programs at home, the sport’s investigators said Monday March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

To avoid strikes at Paris Olympics, French government to pay bonuses to civil servants

France’s public administration minister says the government will offer bonuses to civil servants mobilized to work in Paris during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid strikes.
 
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more often ahead of this year's Paris Olympics because of sub-standard anti-doping programs at home, the sport’s investigators said Monday March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Major French union threatens strikes during Olympics. Hospital workers could walk off the job

A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics.
 
Passengers wait at a Lufthansa check-in counter at Munich Airport, Germany, Thursday March 7. 2024. The Verdi trade union is paralyzing important parts of German air traffic on Thursday and Friday with renewed warning strikes by several professional groups. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

Millions of train, air passengers are affected in Germany as union members go on strike again

Millions of travelers across Germany are being affected by strikes again after two unions called for two-day walkouts over wages and work conditions.
 

Massachusetts art museum workers strike over wages

Unionized workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art have gone on strike after no agreement was reached with the museum on wages.
 
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a cabinet meeting at the government complex in Sejong, South Korea, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The prolonged walkouts by junior doctors won't be tolerated, South Korea’s president said Wednesday, calling them "an illegal collective action" that threatens public health and shakes the country’s governing systems. (Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea’s president vows not to tolerate walkouts by junior doctors

South Korea’s president vows that he won’t tolerate the prolonged walkouts by junior doctors, calling them “an illegal collective action” that threatens public health.
 
FILE - A Lufthansa aircraft is parked at the airport in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Two German unions on Monday again called on their members — German airline Lufthansa's ground staff and German rail operator's Deutsche Bahn train drivers — to go on strike this week following ongoing negotiations over wages and working conditions. Thousands of flights and trains are expected to be canceled Thursday and Friday — the two days that German train drivers’ union GDL and Ver.di called for the strikes. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Thousands of flights and trains will be canceled again this week in Germany with new strikes

Thousands of flights and trains are expected to be canceled again this week in Germany after two unions called for more strikes over wages and working conditions.
 
"Warning strike today" is written on posters at the entrance to the ViP depot (Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam) in Potsdam, Germany, Friday March 1, 2024. Local buses, subway trains and trams ground to a halt in much of Germany Friday at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions. (Georg Moritz/dpa via AP)

Local transport in much of Germany hit by strikes in a dispute over working conditions

Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions.
 
Six-packs of Bud Light, Budweiser and Michelob Ultra are displayed at a liquor store, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Fairfield, Calif. Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants. The union had threatened a strike at the brewer’s 12 U.S. plants if an agreement on a new five-year contract wasn’t reached by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev reports better-than-expected Q4 earnings despite Bud Light backlash

Multinational beer and beverage company Anheuser-Busch InBev, maker of Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and Corona, has reported a 7% increase in operating profit for last year, even as as sales sagged in the United States due to a decline in demand for Bud Light.
 
An Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC facility is seen, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Cartersville, Ga. Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants. The union had threatened a strike at the brewer’s 12 U.S. plants if an agreement on a new five-year contract wasn’t reached by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Anheuser-Busch, Teamsters reach labor agreement that avoids US strike

Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants.
 
Passengers sit at the Jorge Newbery airport after their flight was suspended in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Airport and airline workers, as well as pilots, are staging a 24-hour strike for improved wages. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Hundreds of flights canceled as Argentina’s air travel workers go on 24-hour strike

Hundreds of flights have been canceled and dozens more rescheduled in Argentina as unionized air travel workers go on a 24-hour strike nationwide to demand better wages, in the latest sign of social unrest in the South American country.
 
Labour unionist march on the streets to protest economic hardship in Lagos Nigeria, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Nigerian government workers began a new nationwide strike Tuesday, that threatens to shut down key services across the country. Protestors are angry at the growing economic hardship with talks late Monday night breaking down to avert the walkout. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria’s union workers are on strike nationwide over soaring inflation and unmet promises

Nigeria’s government employees and other union workers have begun a new nationwide strike that threatens to shut down key services while people are angry about soaring inflation and growing economic pain.
 
FILE - The Eiffel Tower is pictured from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 in Paris. Visits to the Eiffel Tower were disrupted on Monday Feb.19, 2024 because of a strike over poor financial management of the monument that is one of the world's most-visited sites. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File

The Eiffel Tower reopens to visitors after a 6-day closure due to an employee strike

The Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes.
 
Visitors stand at the closed gates leading to the Eiffel Tower, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 in Paris. Visitors to the Eiffel Tower were turned away for the second consecutive day because of a strike over poor financial management at one of the world's most-visited sites. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Striking workers again close down the Eiffel Tower ahead of its starring role in the Paris Olympics

Striking workers have again closed down the Eiffel Tower. It’s the third day running that the landmark expected to be at the heart of celebrations for the Paris Olympics has been off-limits to visitors.
 
South Korean Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min, center, speaks during a joint government briefing at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. South Korea on Wednesday officially ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately, a step that could lead to legal punishments if the doctors don't end their walkouts, which have caused numerous cancellations of surgeries and other treatments at hospitals. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean government warns striking doctors to return to work or face legal action

The South Korean government has warned thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately or face legal action after their collective walkouts caused cancellations of surgeries and disrupted other hospital operations.
 
Cancelled flights are displayed on a board in a terminal at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. The trade union Verdi has once again called on Lufthansa ground staff to go on a warning strike. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

What’s behind Germany’s transport strikes that have stranded air, rail and bus travelers?

Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports.
 
Unions flags are pictured at the Eiffel Tower, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 in Paris. Visitors to the Eiffel Tower were turned away for the second consecutive day because of a strike over poor financial management at one of the world's most-visited sites. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Eiffel Tower operator warns the landmark is closed as strike turns visitors away for a second day

A strike at the Eiffel Tower over poor financial management has turned away visitors for the second consecutive day.
 
A board advertises a strike at the Eiffel Tower Monday, Feb. 19, 2024 in Paris. Visits to the Eiffel Tower were disrupted on Monday Feb. 19, 2024 because of a strike over poor financial management of the monument, which is one of the world's most-visited sites. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Strike at the Eiffel Tower closes one of the world’s most popular monuments to visitors

Visitors to the Eiffel Tower are being turned away because of a strike over poor financial management at one of the world’s most-visited sites.
 
FILE - Lufthansa aircrafts are parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. A union has called on ground staff for Lufthansa at seven German airports to walk off the job for a day on Tuesday, following a similar strike earlier this month. The Ver.di union said Sunday that the strike will affect Frankfurt and Munich, Lufthansa's two main hubs, as well as Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

German labor union calls on Lufthansa ground staff to strike at 7 airports on Tuesday

A labor union in Germany has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday following a similar strike earlier this month.
 
FILE - Workers assemble Ford trucks at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. The United Auto Workers union said Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, members will go on strike Feb. 23 at the Kentucky Truck Plant, Ford’s most profitable factory, if a local contract dispute is not resolved. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Auto workers threaten to strike again at Ford’s huge Kentucky truck plant in local contract dispute

The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford’s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language.
 
FILE - Striking Newton teachers and supporters display placards and chant during a rally, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, outside Newton City Hall, in Newton, Mass. According to an annual report published Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, from the Labor Action Tracker, a collaboration between researchers at Cornell University and the University of Illinois, those involved in work stoppages climbed 141% in 2023 — from 224,000 to 539,000 striking workers. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Number of American workers hitting the picket lines more than doubled last year as unions flexed

Auto workers held waves of walkouts. Hollywood actors and writers picketed for months. And healthcare, education and hospitality employees also withheld their labor while calling for improved pay and job conditions.
 
Flight attendants and a pilot protest at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Three separate unions representing flight attendants at major U.S. airlines are picketing and holding rallies at 30 airports on Tuesday as they push for new contracts and higher wages. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Flight attendants are holding airport rallies to protest the lack of new contracts and pay raises

Flight attendants for major U.S. airlines are holding rallies at airports around the country to push for higher pay. Tuesday’s protests are not, however, a strike.
 
FILE - Junior doctor members of the BMA (British Medical Association) join the picket line at the University College Hospital in London, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are set to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Thousands of doctors in England to strike again as health likely to become a key UK election issue

Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis.
 
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