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Allina Health Doctors Hold One-Day Strike

November 7, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
On Wednesday, a group of more than 600 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners held a one-day strike against their employer, Minneapolis-based Allina Health. The primary and urgent care providers work at over 60 clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and are organized with Doctors Council SEIU Local 10MD. The Doctors Council said this event is the largest private-sector strike among healthcare providers in United States history, as well as the first ever in Minnesota. Matt Hoffman, family medicine physician at Allina, explained: “After 20 months of bargaining, we are striking for a primary care system where doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants have the time and resources to give our patients the best possible care.”

Union Starbucks Baristas Overwhelmingly Authorize ULP Strike

November 6, 2025 Starbucks Workers United. , , ,
Nationwide - Union baristas announced Wednesday that they have authorized an open-ended unfair labor practice (ULP) strike with 92% voting “yes” ahead of the critical holiday season. The vote comes after six months of Starbucks refusing to offer new proposals to address workers’ demands for better staffing, higher pay, and a resolution of hundreds of unfair labor practice charges. “Our fight is about actually making Starbucks jobs the best jobs in retail. Right now, it’s only the best job in retail for Brian Niccol,” said Jasmine Leli, a 3-year Starbucks barista and strike captain from Buffalo, NY.

Boeing Machinists Strike At Three Months

November 6, 2025 Jim McMahan, Workers World. , , , , ,
With their strike against Boeing closing in on three months, St. Louis members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) District 837 have now rejected Boeing’s fourth disrespectful contract offer. The workers walked out on Aug. 4. Facing an austerity contract from a powerful monopoly corporation, the Machinists have shown tremendous resilience. Boeing is heavily involved in supplying war planes from the St. Louis plants for the Pentagon’s war on Gaza. Boeing and the Pentagon’s genocidal war against Gaza has the makings of an economic war on strikers at the company’s main military division in St. Louis.

Dockerworker Strikes In Solidarity With Gaza Have A Long Legacy

November 3, 2025 Peter Cole, Waging Nonviolence. , , , , ,
In the weeks leading up to the latest ceasefire, protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza widened and deepened across the world. In early October, in some of the largest demonstrations in the two years since the war began, millions took to the streets in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Rome, Jakarta, Tokyo, London, Athens, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Paris, Chicago, Berlin, Stockholm and Santiago. The Global Sumud Flotilla, an attempt to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, particularly captivated global attention. In September, roughly 500 people from 47 countries set sail from Barcelona on 50 vessels carrying humanitarian aid. Flotilla participants included humanitarian aid workers, clergy, elected officials, veterans, doctors, lawyers and artists — Greta Thunberg among them.

General Strike In Alberta Possible

November 2, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. , , , ,
Workers across Alberta have begun the process of organizing a general strike after the province legislated an end to the teacher’s strike using the notwithstanding clause, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour.  Teachers across the province were on strike from October 6 until the government passed Bill 2 early Tuesday morning, forcing teachers to be back in classrooms the next day. Teachers were calling for better pay, more per-student funding in public education and smaller class sizes.  “Although this legislation will end the strike and lift the lockout, it does not end the underfunding and deterioration of teaching and learning conditions—our schools will not be better for it,” the union wrote on their website. 

Resident Doctors Say Enough Is Enough

October 25, 2025 Alex/Rose Cocker, The Canary. , , , ,
Resident doctors in England have announced that they’ll be walking out on strike next month. They’ll begin the industrial action at 7am on 14 November. The news comes after Labour’s complete failure to bring a credible offer to the table, regarding jobs and pay restoration. England’s BMA (British Medical Association) resident doctors’ committee (RDC) has urged Wes Streeting to do the right thing. They want the health secretary to return with a sensible offer. One that would allow them to call off the strike. So what has Streeting done in return? He’s accused the BMA of trying to “wreck” the NHS, and has called the strike a “slap in the face” for other hospital staff.

Starbucks Workers Aim To Bring A Contract Home

October 22, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that UPS Teamsters used during their 2023 contract campaign: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” Thirty-eight stores held practice pickets in early October, and starting October 25, 80 more stores plan to hold pickets and sign up customers to a “No Contract, No Coffee” pledge, promising not to patronize any Starbucks in case of a strike. “We're all strike-ready,” said Jhoana Canada, a barista in Nashville.

All Licensed Government Professionals Join Historic BC Strike

October 17, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. , , ,
The number of public service workers taking job action in BC has now surpassed 26,000 after workers represented by the Professional Employees Association (PEA) escalated their strike to include all Government Licensed Professionals they represent. PEA represents 1,600 workers on strike. They are joined on the picket lines by more than 25,000 striking public workers represented by the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU). Talks between the government and the BCGEU began in January and bargaining with PEA began in May. Since then, both unions have decried what they call insufficient wage offers.

23 Unions Plan To Strike Together If Kaiser Fails To Address Crises

October 12, 2025 Tyler Walicek, Truthout. , , , ,
“Our patients deserve the best, not mediocrity.” This phrase has been emblazoned across graphics on the social media feeds of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP), an American Federation of Teachers affiliate, Local 5017. The roughly 6,000 health care professionals of the OFNHP are locked in a contract fight with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, the sprawling health care consortium. The mediocrity in question is not that of the staffers themselves; instead, it warns of the impending consequences for staff and patients alike of the workplace stressors to which Kaiser’s tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, technicians, and others are systematically subjected.

Starbucks Workers Hold ‘Practice Picket’ After Store Closures

October 8, 2025 Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star. , , ,
Six days after two Indiana Starbucks locations closed as part of the multinational coffee chain's Back to Starbucks restructuring plan, unionized employees of the Starbucks on Mass Ave briefly walked off the job in a "practice picket" Oct. 2. Roughly 20 Starbucks employees and supporters chanted and marched with signs that read "No contract, no coffee" and "Just practicing for a fair contract" in the shade of the café at 430 Massachusetts Ave. The hour-long demonstration was part of a recent national picketing effort by Starbucks Workers United across 35 U.S. cities, according to a news release from the union. Workers United members have staged rallies over the last week calling for improved staffing in stores and higher take-home pay as negotiations for a new contract with Starbucks have stalled.

Postal Banking Once Made Canada Post Profitable

October 6, 2025 Linda McQuaig, Rabble. , , , ,
Mark Carney clearly loves a nation-building project — as long as it’s wildly expensive and is pleasing to corporate interests. That seems to be the takeaway from the prime minister’s decision last week to largely abandon Canada Post, an institution with a vast network of 5,900 outlets across the country that’s been tying Canada together since Confederation. In recent years, Canada Post has lost large amounts of money and is currently in the midst of a strike by postal workers. Carney’s response is to effectively gut it, ending door-to-door mail delivery (where it still exists) and resuming the closure of post offices across the country.

Canada Post Workers On Strike

September 28, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. , , ,
Postal workers across the country have started their second strike action in less than a year after Public Works Minister, Joël Lightbound, announced changes to the Canada Post.  Lightbound said he will be instructing Canada Post to introduce flexibilities in their delivery standards. The government is also authorizing the corporation to introduce community mailboxes to approximately four million more addresses ending door-to-door delivery in those areas.  In response, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began strike action. The union said the measures introduced by Lightbound could result in major job losses. CUPW and the Canada Post have been negotiating a new collective agreement for 20 months.

Teamsters Win University Of Minnesota Strike, With Help From Farm Aid

September 18, 2025 Randy Furst, Labor Notes. , , , , , ,
Some 1,400 Teamster service workers at the University of Minnesota won a resounding victory in a five-day walkout that showcased their militancy and underscored the power of solidarity. “This is what happens when people stick together,” said Steve Tesfagiorgis, a shop steward and strike captain for Teamsters Local 320 and a senior custodian on the Minneapolis campus. “Our members are from different places and speak many different languages, and we all worked together and won.” The union includes more than 400 East African workers. At rallies, on flyers, and during Zoom meetings, members communicated in five languages.

‘Starbucks Is On The Ropes,’ Says SBWU President Lynne Fox

September 16, 2025 Lynne Fox, In These Times. , , , ,
Starbucks’ logo, the green siren, is ubiquitous, and its 40,000 stores occupy an estimated 80 million square feet of real estate globally. But that doesn’t make the company too big to fail. The next three months will determine the future of this iconic U.S. company. Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol crossed his first anniversary in the position this week, on September 9. He was chosen to replace the previous CEO based on his reputation as a fixer amid declining sales and brand damage. At the time, he wrote this about union baristas: ​“If our partners choose to be represented, I am committed to making sure we engage constructively and in good faith with the union and the partners it represents.”

Doctors May Have To Strike If Kennedy Doesn’t Resign

September 15, 2025 Richard L. Kravitz, STAT. , , , , ,
On behalf of the misleadingly named Make America Healthy Again movement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an undisciplined assault on biomedical science and public health: defunding research at the National Institutes of Health, canceling mRNA vaccine studies, purging dedicated government scientists, gutting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and potentially the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and trying to force millions off Medicaid. Kennedy’s recent actions have, in less than a year, substantially degraded the nation’s health security. The brouhaha between Kennedy and (now former) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez is just the latest scene in this unfolding horror flick.
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