Walkout

School Bus Drivers Protest Inadequate COVID-19 Protection And Low Pay

September 14, 2021 Shelley Connor, WSWS. Resist! COVID-19, Georgia, Walkout, Worker Rights and Jobs

On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The sickouts forced the school board to scramble for drivers to transport students. The school relies on about 218 drivers to ferry more than 18,700 students to and from school; the 54 drivers who are protesting represent about 22 percent of the district’s drivers. A school district spokesperson reported that the district had been forced to call upon private coaches and other employees with commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) to make up for the deficit. The school board released a statement on Friday saying that they were already understaffed, and they were trying to hire more drivers.

McDonald’s Employees Walk Out

September 7, 2021 Daniella Griesbaum, The Bradford Era. Resist! McDonald's, Pennsylvania, Walkout, Worker Rights and Jobs

Citing unresolved complaints, disparities in wages with other businesses, staffing shortages and issues with building maintenance, the entire staff of the McDonald’s in Bradford who worked the weekend morning shift walked out in protest Sunday morning. Due to the lack of staff, the franchise was forced to close for several hours until alternative staff from other McDonald’s franchises could arrive. According to a former employee who said he quit last week after working for the store for more than a decade, and who asked not to be named, “this is not the first incident of employees walking out of the Bradford store due to issues with executive management.” He said that last summer, during a night shift, the staff left due to an ongoing issue with the air conditioning units in the kitchen not functioning properly.

Walmart Retaliates Against Worker Who Urged Employee Walkout Over Gun Sales

August 10, 2019 Bryan Menegus, Gizmodo.com Resist! Class Struggle, Guns, Walkout, Walmart, Workers

Following a pair of deadly mass shootings over the weekend, including one at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a Walmart e-commerce category specialist, Thomas Marshall, posted two memos widely within the company, urging mass action by employees to pressure management to cease the sale of firearms. Now, Marshall claims he and one of his colleagues are unable to access their internal accounts. “Walmart has completely deactivated our access and accounts.

Wayfair Employees Plan Walkout To Oppose Furniture Sales To Migrant Detention Facilities

June 26, 2019 By Janelle Nanos, Bostonglobe.com Resist! Class Struggle, Detention Centers, Immigration, Undocumented, Walkout, Workers

Employees of the online housewares giant Wayfair announced Tuesday that they would stage a walkout at the company’s Back Bay headquarters on Wednesday to protest its decision to sell furniture to the operators of facilities for migrant children detained at the southern US border. Last Wednesday, they learned that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing camps at the border. More than 500 employees signed a letter of protest sent to company executives. When the company refused to change course, employees organized the walkout.

Oregon Teachers Are Walking Out, Forcing 600 Schools To Close

May 12, 2019 Holly Yan, Cnn.com Resist! Class Struggle, Oregon, Teachers, Walkout, Workers

Tens of thousands of frustrated teachers were airing their grievances at protests across the state Wednesday. But unlike with other teacher walkouts, these educators aren't fighting for higher raises. They're fed up with overcrowded classrooms and a lack of support staff, including school nurses and mental health counselors. "Nearly 45% of all reported classes in Oregon have 26 students or more," said John Larson, a high school English teacher and president of the Oregon Education Association.

West Virginia Teachers Walk Out To Oppose Charter Schools

February 20, 2019 Jerry White, Wsws.org Resist! Charter Schools, Class Struggle, Education, Teachers, Walkout, West Virginia

Thousands of teachers and support staff in West Virginia are walking out of schools today and descending on the state capitol in Charleston to oppose legislation that would introduce the state’s first charter schools and divert public resources and students from traditional public schools. Facing the possibility of imminent wildcat strikes, the teachers unions called the walkout for Tuesday but are scrambling to shut it down as soon as they can.

#BlackFridays Walkouts Turn Rage Into Action And Community

November 22, 2018 Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Black Friday, Holidays, Walkout

As people around the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, and the manic day of discount shopping that follows, one network of activists has already been celebrating a different kind of Black Friday for the past two months. This initiative, connected by the Twitter hashtag #BlackFridays, has resulted in a number of symbolic walkouts across the country led by a network of women of color. Spurred into action by the Kavanaugh hearings, #BlackFridays began when a group of “womxn” – acknowledging the historic exclusion of gender expressions – signed a public letter urging people to wear black and disrupt “business as usual.” Their aim was to express rage and resistance against the “places that gave us the Kavanaughs, the Trumps and the CEOs who harm us.”

Google Workers Walk Out Over Sexual Misconduct

November 1, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Google, Sexual Abuse, Walkout

Google employees around the world are staging a mass walkout Thursday in protest of sexual misconduct, following a major New York Times report last week that named executives who had been accused of sexual misconduct. The walkout, “Walkout For Real Change,” involves thousands of workers taking part in the protest which began at 11 am. See the hashtag #GoogleWalkout. Below are some tweets describing the walk out.

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