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Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands

Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had previously refused even to bargain over. “It was hard and it was joyful and we f-ing beat them,” said Ilan Desai-Geller, a high school teacher who served on the bargaining committee and as a regional strike captain. “They found the money all of a sudden.

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Working Class History 2h ago

📣 New Podcast! "1 April 1949: NYC Brewery strike" on @Spreaker #anniversaries_history #city #day #facts_weekly #history #history_beer #history_historical #history_otd_on #history_weekly #in #labor #lives #new #news_everyday #stories_daily #strikes #this #workers #york
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-april-1949-nyc-brewery-strike--71033827

1 April 1949: NYC Brewery strike

On this day, 1 April 1949, 6,000 workers in 11 breweries in New York City walked out on strike for a pay increase, better staffing and a 35 hour working week in

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Peter Riley 6h ago

Industrial disputes & news - 1 April 2026

Vicpublic sector health professionals; Aurizon; Coliban Water; Prince Engineering; DXC; QLD teachers; Vic disability support workers; Tas public sector workers; BHP; ACT teachers; UTAS; ABC & more

(Thanks Sarah Missen)

HTTPS://DISPUTESREPORT.SUBSTACK.COM/P/INDUSTRIAL-DISPUTES-AND-NEWS-1-APRIL

#LabourMovement #Organize #solidarity #strikes #unions

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment 21h ago

Spain airport strikes warning as Easter travellers face severe delays

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/spain-airport-strikes-warning-easter-36947180

CBC Top Stories 22h ago

U.S. attacks Iranian nuclear site as Tehran strikes fully-loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai coast
The United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-u-s-conflict-9.7148111?cmp=rss

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 1d ago

Behind the Resident Doctors strike are essentially two issues; the lack of inflation-linking in pay over the last decade or so, leading to real-terms wage falls, and the lack of training places to help expand the numbers of RDs (and other medics) in the NHS.

So, Keir Starmer has now threatened to pull 1,000 training places in the next 48 hours if the imminent industrial action is not called off...

Hard to see how this makes any positive contribution!

#NHS #strikes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23909pge35o