UPS said it will begin training non-union employees to step in should there be a strike, which could happen by the end of the month.
Striking screen actors will begin picketing alongside writers in New York and Los Angeles in what has become the biggest Hollywood labor fight in decades.
Television and movie writers soured by Hollywood’s low pay in the streaming era have gone on strike.
Lowndes County road crews are back on the job following a two and-a-half week strike over their wages.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Scores of city workers are on strike in Selma. About 65 workers in the city’s Cemetery, Recreation and Public Works Departments — are demanding better pay. “You can’t raise a family on that type of, on the type of income we make out here. Landfill Secretary Lashone Edwards is a single mother — trying to…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) – Hundreds of union members are rallying for Alabama miners who’ve been on strike against Warrior Met Coal Inc. since early April. The demonstration held Wednesday in the town of Brookwood included speakers, music, and donations to help the striking miners. Roughly 1,100 union members are on strike at two Warrior Met mines and other facilities. The…
A union representing AT&T workers says about 17,000 employees in California and Nevada have gone on strike. The workers install cable and phone service and work in call centers where customers can phone in with questions and problems. Union local official Sheila Bordeaux says AT&T is asking technicians who install cable to also work outside maintaining phone and cable wires,…
Alabama Department of Corrections officials are responding to unofficial and erroneous reports of corrections officers participating in a strike at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Prison officials are acknowledging that nine officers did not report for the facility’s third shift on Saturday. In response, and as standing operating procedure, officers from other ADOC facilities were assigned to…
The Alabama Department of Corrections is reporting an inmate work stoppage at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Early Friday, prison officials reported that group of approximately 10 inmates did not report to the facility’s kitchen for preparing the morning meal. Later Friday, approximately 35 inmates assigned to the facility’s tag plant that produces the state’s license plates…
Selma’s police chief says the department is back to normal operations following a sick-out by officers upset over pay and working conditions. Police Chief John Brock says that two officers are still out. But that’s down from about 10 at the height of the protest. Brock says the department is functioning normally. Officers began calling in sick earlier this month…
