LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Workers at the Kaiser Permanente health-care network protested in several Western cities Sept. 2, with arrests for civil disobedience in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Sacramento, California. More than
MONACA, Pa.—Workers building a Royal Dutch Shell petrochemical plant were warned that their pay would be docked if they didn’t show up for President Donald Trump’s Aug. 16 speech at
CONCORD, N.H.—New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill Aug. 9 that would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10 next year and $12 in
FOREST, Miss.—Federal immigration raids on a Mississippi poultry-processing plant Aug. 7 left many children homeless and unattended in this town of about 6,000 people. In a massive operation that seized
HARLAN, Ky.—Coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky blocked a railroad track July 29 to prevent a train from carrying coal they mined but didn’t get paid for. The Blackjewel company,
HELENA, Mont.—The leader of a talc-mill union locked out for almost three months last year is now the president of the Montana AFL-CIO. Randy Tocci, president of International Brotherhood of
LANCASTER, Pa.—As the day shift at the Armstrong Flooring factory and distribution center here ended at 4 p.m. July 2, the company locked out all 180 members of United Steelworkers
RICHMOND, Va.—A federal judge has awarded $2 million to a group of former Toys R Us workers whose promised severance pay was cancelled in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings, lawyers for
WASHINGTON—National Labor Relations Board Chair John Ring has filed a formal complaint against agency Inspector General David Berry, the official who got a 2017 NLRB decision reversing an Obama-era “joint
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Saying there is “a disturbing trend in black lung cases,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts and United Steelworkers President Leo W. Gerard called on the federal Mine Safety
