strikes
Tentative pact lets 18,000 Kaiser California nurses cancel strike
January 21, 2015"The pact shows the chain recognizes the nurses' devotion to assuring the highest level of quality care for patients as well as protections for the nurses who deliver that care."
Read moreKaiser Permanente mental health workers go on strike in California
January 13, 2015Union demonstrators picket in front of 35 Kaiser Permanente locations throughout the state on behalf of some 2,600 mental health clinicians.
Read moreWave of Black Friday protests expected to flood Walmarts next week
November 18, 2014The national wave of protests, which could be the biggest yet to hit the giant retailer outlets, comes on the heels last week of the first sit down strikes in Walmart's history.
Read moreToday in labor history: Atlanta workers engage in sit-down strike
November 18, 2014Workers at the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia participated in a sit-down strike, which was part of a greater ongoing wave of labor organizing during the 1930s.
Read more28 arrested so far in sit-down strikes at California Walmarts
November 14, 2014The group was joined by hundreds of Californians who rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012.
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