Workers Strike

Starbucks strike to expand to 300 stores on Christmas Eve, says union

Starbucks Workers United, representing employees at 525 stores nationwide, said more than 60 US stores across 12 major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle, were shut on Monday

Canada Post says operations to resume after nearly monthlong strike

Canada Post said operations will resume at the national postal service on Tuesday after the nearly monthlong work stoppage. Workers went on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with the primary postal operator in Canada over key issues, including wages, job security, and how to staff a proposed expansion into weekend delivery. The federal government moved Friday to end the stoppage after Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced referring the dispute to the Canada Industrial Relations Board, an independent administrative tribunal that focuses on resolving workplace disputes. However, the board determined late Sunday that negotiations are at an impasse after two days of hearings and ordered the nearly 55,000 workers to return to work. This will also extend the current collective agreement until May 22, 2025. Canada Post said it has agreed with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to implement a 5 per cent wage increase retroactive to the day after the collective ...

Boeing lays off hundreds in Washington, California as part of planned cuts

Boeing has laid off hundreds of additional employees in Washington state and California as part of planned cuts that will eventually reduce the company's workforce by about 17,000. Nearly 400 Boeing employees were laid off in Washington state and more than 500 in California, news outlets reported Monday. The aerospace giant announced previously it would reduce its workforce by 10% in the coming months as it tries to recover from financial and regulatory troubles and a strike by its machinists that lasted almost two months. CEO Kelly Ortberg has said the strike did not cause the layoffs, which he said was the result of overstaffing. In November, the company started notifying workers who would be laid off. Notices filed with state employment agencies showed the first round of cuts impacted about 3,500 people around the country, The Seattle Times reported. Those cuts touched people in roles from engineers to recruiters to analysts and impacted Boeing's commercial, defense and global

VW workers step up strikes in order to fight German plant closures

The IG Metall union said workers would down tools for four hours at nine different sites in so-called "warning" strikes across the country

Workers of nine Volkswagen plants to strike as labour battle escalates

Labour union last week proposed measures it said would save 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion), including forgoing bonuses for 2025 and 2026, which Europe's top carmaker dismissed

Amazon workers in India join protest for better wages, working conditions

The protests come at a time when Amazon India has announced its inaugural Black Friday event, running from November 29 to December 2

Boeing CEO calls on employees to collaborate, be accountable after turmoil

Relations with workers have been particularly strained by a strike that lasted for more than seven weeks and consumed much of Ortberg's first months on the job

VW workers' union propose $1.6 billion of cuts, but no plant closures

The IG Metall union, arguing the company was trying to push through more than 17 billion euros in cuts, said its offer was also contingent on stakeholders

Boeing to repay lost wages to furloughed employees, proceed with job cuts

Boeing on Monday won ratification of a contract giving its machinists a 38 per cent pay hike over four years and a $12,000 bonus, ending the strike

Boeing workers strike over but aerospace giant still faces many challenges

Factory workers at Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the company to restart idled Pacific Northwest assembly lines. But the strike was just one of many challenges the troubled US aerospace giant faces as it works to return to profitability and regain public confidence. Boeing's 33,000 striking machinists disbanded their picket lines late Monday after leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers district in Seattle said 59 per cent of union members who cast ballots agreed to approve the company's fourth formal offer, which included a 38 per cent wage increase over four years. Union machinists assemble the 737 Max, Boeing's bestselling airliner, along with the 777 or triple-seven jet and the 767 cargo plane at factories in Renton and Everett, Washington. Resuming production will allow Boeing to generate much-needed cash, which it has been bleeding. Even for a company the

Boeing union endorses latest offer to end crippling workers' strike

The union plans to hold a vote on the proposal on November 4

Workers launch nationwide strike in Germany demanding higher wages

The strikes by unionised workers in the nearly 4-million strong electrical engineering and metal industries hit companies such as Porsche AG, BMW and Mercedes

Boeing workers reject wage deal, strike continues amid rising tensions

Time is running out for Boeing, historically the largest US exporter, and its biggest union to reach a deal before the presidential election on Nov. 5

Boeing plans to raise $15 billion through shares, bonds amid strike woes

The company said in regulatory filings that it could raise as much as $25 billion in stock and debt with its investment-grade credit rating at risk

Boeing employees hold rally in Seattle as strike enters second month

Investors and regulators have had Boeing under the microscope since a door panel flew off a near-new 737 MAX jet in midair in January

37-day strike by workers at Samsung's Sriperumbudur unit finally ends

During the conciliation talks, representatives from both the management and the striking workers agreed that all workers would immediately call off the strike and return to work

Acting US labour secretary attempts to intervene in Boeing strike

Roughly 33,000 workers have been on strike since Sept 13, seeking a 40 per cent wage increase over four years

Boeing to lay off 10% employees as workers' strike cripples production

Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike that is crippling production of the company's best-selling airline planes. New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo Friday that the job cuts will include executives, managers and employees. The company had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layoffs. The company will delay the rollout of a new plane, the 777X, to 2026 instead of 2025. It will also stop building the cargo version of its 767 jet in 2027 after finishing current orders. Boeing has lost more than $25 billion since the start of 2019. Union machinists have been on strike since Sept. 14. Two days of talks this week failed to produce a deal.

Boeing files unfair labour practice charge with NLRB against striking union

In a filing with NLRB, Boeing also accused the union's leaders of misrepresenting the terms of Boeing's offer to its members and of not bringing negotiators to the table with authority to make a deal

Boeing workers in for 'long haul' after pay talks collapse: Union leader

Reaching an accepted deal is critical for Boeing, ratings agency S&P estimates the strike is costing it $1 billion a month and it is at risk of losing its prized investment grade credit rating