California 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers strike for better wages and safe staffing

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USA Kaiser workers launch historic five-day, multi-state strike [The Chronicle] 15-10-2025

USA California 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers strike for better wages and safe staffing [AP] 15-10-2025

USA California Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees to go on five-day strike [HI News Now] 14-10-2025

Korea (South) / USA Commentary: US treatment of South Korea raises doubts about long-term ties [Channel News Asia ] 14-10-2025

USA Michigan Nearly 32,000 Michigan home care workers unionize with SEIU Healthcare in historic win [UNI Global Union] 13-10-2025

USA Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement” [Jacobin] 12-10-2025

USA Det hvite hus starter masseoppsigelser i offentlig sektor [Geopolitika] 11-10-2025

USA End the US Government shutdown – put workers and safety first [ITF] 08-10-2025

USA The Sixth Circuit Made It Harder to Hold Employers Liable for Customer Harassment. It Shouldn’t Have. [onlabor] 08-10-2025

Lesotho / USA Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread [GroundUp] 08-10-2025

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California 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers strike for better wages and safe staffing 2025-10-15 [AP]

Kaiser workers launch historic five-day, multi-state strike 2025-10-15 [The Chronicle]

IAM Union Supports Federal Employees Civil Relief Act to Protect Federal Workers and Contractors During Government Shutdowns 2025-10-15 [IAM Union]

Thousands of federal employees are getting laid off. Will a judge intervene? 2025-10-15 [NPR]

Louisiana Tensions flare at Baton Rouge bus agency as ex-driver raises sexual harassment allegations 2025-10-15 [The Advocate]

AFGE Members Highlight Shutdown Impact Through Public Rallies, Congressional Meetings, Media Interviews 2025-10-14 [AFGE]

USA Commentary: US treatment of South Korea raises doubts about long-term ties 2025-10-14 [Channel News Asia ]

New York Broadway musicians join actors as latest union to authorize strike action amid contract negations 2025-10-14 [amNY]

New York Broadway musicians authorize strike if union negotiations fail 2025-10-14 [CBS]

Indiana Horseshoe Indianapolis workers to strike over union election hampered by government shutdown 2025-10-14 [CDC Gaming]

South Carolina Waffle House workers begin strike over pay and working conditions, union says 2025-10-14 [WRDW]

Podcast: Federal workers file lawsuit after being fired in shutdown, others rehired 2025-10-14 [WBUR]

California Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees to go on five-day strike 2025-10-14 [HI News Now]

Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers - At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third 2025-10-14 [Reddit]

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off 550 workers 2025-10-14 [NBC]

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different 2025-10-14 [NYTimes]

What California’s Uber And Lyft Unionization Could Mean For Workers Nationwide 2025-10-14 [Forbes]

AFGE ‘Urges’ Federal Workers To Join The October 18th ‘No Kings Day Protests Everywhere They Are Scheduled To Take Place’ 2025-10-14 [WNY Labor Today]

Hawaii Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees to go on five-day strike 2025-10-13 [HNN]

California 31,000 Kaiser workers set to strike for five days starting Oct. 14 2025-10-13 [FOX]

Michigan Nearly 32,000 Michigan home care workers unionize with SEIU Healthcare in historic win 2025-10-13 [UNI Global Union]

VIDEO Over 4,000 federal workers laid off during government shutdown. 750,000 federal workers without pay 2025-10-12 [11 Alive]

TGI Fridays offering free food for some federal workers amid shutdown 2025-10-12 [FOX 8]

California Kaiser workers gear up for five-day strike; Sharp nurses to picket 2025-10-12 [San Diego Union Tribune]

Pennsylvania Furloughed federal workers in Pa. may be eligible for unemployment during shutdown 2025-10-12 [WESA]

The White House is using layoffs of federal workers as leverage to end the shutdown 2025-10-12 [NPR]

Vance Warns 'Deeper' Cuts Ahead for Federal Workers as Shutdown Enters 12th Day 2025-10-12 [USNews]

More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated 2025-10-12 [WTOP]

Trump administration says about 4,200 federal employees face layoffs 2025-10-12 [NPR]

VIDEO JD Vance says Democrats ‘forced’ Trump administration to lay off workers 2025-10-12 [NBC]

California Los trabajadores del Sindicato de Salud Suiter obtienen nuevos contratos y se saltan la huelga 2025-10-12 [Noticias Huesca]

Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement” 2025-10-12 [Jacobin]

From pulpit to picket line: Religion and labor rights long connected in coal country 2025-10-12 [The Catholic Reporter]

New York Story of the Week: Is Broadway Going on Strike? 2025-10-12 [Theatre Mania]

Texas After 40 days on picket line, union workers at Hilton Americas-Houston end strike 2025-10-11 [HPM]

Det hvite hus starter masseoppsigelser i offentlig sektor 2025-10-11 [Geopolitika]

Ohio Ohio unions form coalition to stop pension board changes, benefit cuts 2025-10-10 [The Plain Dealer]

New York Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo 2025-10-10 [The News]

California The UC Berkeley Labor Center Mourns the Loss of Friend and Colleague Kent Wong 2025-10-10 [UC Berkley Labour Centre]

California Teachers union threatens to strike as salary negotiations remain contentious 2025-10-10 [SFStandard]

VIDEO Colorado Hundreds of teachers at southern Colorado’s largest school district strike 2025-10-09 [KKTV]

USA Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread 2025-10-08 [GroundUp]

The Sixth Circuit Made It Harder to Hold Employers Liable for Customer Harassment. It Shouldn’t Have. 2025-10-08 [onlabor]

USA Celebrating CWA Canada’s historic autonomy agreement 2025-10-08 [CWA Canada]

USA Steelworkers union urges Carney to defend Canadian jobs and industries in Trump talks 2025-10-08 [USW Canada]

End the US Government shutdown – put workers and safety first 2025-10-08 [ITF]

US Department of Labor awards $86 million to 14 states for investment in skills training programs for critical in-demand, emerging industries 2025-10-07 [U.S. Department of Labor]

Ohio Metallus (formerly TimkenSteel), Steelworkers reach tentative contract 2025-10-07 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

“An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times”: An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper 2025-10-07 [Workday]

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