WASHINGTON—More than 130,000 current and former U.S. Postal Service workers may be able to sue for damages, after the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in March that management had
ALBANY, N.Y.—The New York State Assembly passed a bill May 2 that would let local school districts set their own requirements for evaluating teachers. It would eliminate the state’s 2015
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—More than 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District workers will hold a 24-hour strike May 15, SEIU Local 99 announced May 5. The union, which represents bus drivers,
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Beer-truck drivers on strike for three weeks are urging Twin Cities consumers and bars to boycott 14 brands of scab-delivered beer, including Miller, Heineken, Guinness, and longtime local brand
GODERICH, Ontario—About 350 workers at the Compass Minerals salt mine went on strike Apr. 27 after they failed to reach a contract deal with the mine’s U.S.-based owners. According to
DOVER, N.H.—Workers at the New Hampshire Electric Co-op are poised to go on strike this week, after management gave them a “last, best, final” contract offer May 1 that would
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—In a ruling one labor-side lawyer called “an earthquake, a seismic shift,” the California Supreme Court on Apr. 30 drastically revised its standard about when employers can classify workers
SAN JUAN, P.R.—As teachers and other workers in Puerto Rico went on strike to protest privatization May 1, police in San Juan fired tear-gas shells at student protesters in the
SCRANTON, Pa.—Two local hospitals have locked out nurses for four days after they staged a 24-hour strike Apr. 25. When registered nurses at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton showed up
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee state legislature approved a resolution Apr. 23 honoring union telecommunications technician James Shaw, Jr., for disarming the gunman who had just killed four people at a Waffle
