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US labour disputes

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing withdraws pay offer to striking factory workers

    Plane maker says union demands threaten company’s competitiveness

    Picket signs with the words ‘On Strike’ are positioned near a large Boeing sign outside the company's manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington state
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    News in-depthBoeing Co
    ‘They’re just mad’: Boeing strikers prepare for long haul

    Tens of thousands of picketing machinists dig in as plane maker reels from latest crisis

    Boeing workers picket outside of the Boeing Everett factory during an ongoing strike in Everett, Washington
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    US dockworkers suspend strike that threatened to cripple ports

    Workers will return under deal to extend contract until January 15 and avert billions in economic damage

    Dockworkers on strike outside the Port of Savannah in Georgia
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    News in-depth
    Harold Daggett, US port union boss disrupting global trade

    The powerful longshoremen president has closed eastern and southern US docks

    Harold Daggett with striking dock workers
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    US economy faces ‘paralysis’ before election as dockworkers go on strike

    Business estimates stoppage could cost nearly $5bn a day after ‘impasse’ over wages and automation

    Dockworkers on strike at the Port of Miami on Tuesday hold placards, some of which read ‘Machines don’t feed families’
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    News in-depthKroger Co
    America’s largest supermarket merger hangs on the fate of its workers

    Union’s opposition to Kroger’s $25bn purchase of Albertsons sparks doubts in local affiliate

    A butcher carries a tray of meat at an Albertsons brand Safeway grocery store in Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing workers begin strike after rejecting 25% pay rise

    Company under pressure to sweeten offer as analysts say a long stoppage could hit its credit rating

    Boeing workers holds signs as they wait in line to vote on their first full contract in 16 years in Renton, Washington, on Thursday
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    America’s crisis of loneliness Premium content

    Frustration over the pace of technological change and our ability to control it is leading to an emotional hollowing out

    A man stretches during his morning workout in front of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Q&AFT Magazine
    America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital

    During an exceptional roundtable with the FT, US labour’s message was clear

  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Unions
    Dartmouth basketball team votes to become first US college athlete union

    Ivy League school says it will challenge unprecedented move that could allow players to be paid as employees

    Dartmouth Big Green players huddle during their game against Columbia Lions in their NCAA men’s basketball game on February 16, 2024 in New York City
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Starbucks Corp
    Starbucks union group ends campaign for three board seats

    Strategic Organizing Center withdraws director nominations as coffee chain and Workers United agree to co-operate

    Steph Kronos, left, a pro-union activist, joins Starbucks workers and former employees during a protest in Virginia, US, last November
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Person in the News
    Marie Nilsson, the Swedish union leader taking on Elon Musk

    IF Metall chief says country’s economic model could be at risk in dispute with Tesla boss

    Joe Cummings illustration of a woman holding a Tesla document and holding her other hand up with the index finger pointing. The Swedish flag forms the background
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Automobiles
    Emboldened US union launches membership drive across 13 carmakers

    Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen among companies targeted after UAW wins concessions at Detroit’s Big Three

    United Auto Workers on a picket line in Detroit in September
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    General Motors Co
    General Motors stock soars on $10bn share buyback and dividend boost

    Automaker reinstates full-year guidance at lower level following impact of recent strikes

    A GM factory in Michigan, US
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
    Worker unrest adds to US drugstore woes as Covid vaccine sales dwindle

    Pharmacy staff aim to form union after coming under pressure to make up for falling demand for jab

    Employees and supporters picket outside the headquarters of drugstore chain Walgreens during a three-day walkout by pharmacists in Deerfield, Illinois on November 1
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Media
    Hollywood actors reach tentative deal to end strike

    Weeks after writers settle, studios say new deal covers streaming royalties and protections related to AI use

    People celebrate after the Hollywood actors’ union reaches a tentative agreement with studios and streaming services in Los Angeles on Wednesday
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    General Motors Co
    US carworkers suspend strike after reaching tentative deal with GM

    Breakthrough with UAW follows similar agreements with Ford and Chrysler owner Stellantis

    Striking UAW workers outside a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, in September
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    News in-depthUS employment
    Union workers score big pay gains as labour action sweeps US

    UAW’s tentative deal with Ford is latest to reflect revived power at the negotiating table

    Aya Konishi, a teaching assistant at the University of California Los Angeles,
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford reaches deal with union to end US strike and raise wages

    Detroit carmaker is the first of the industry’s Big Three to resolve contract battle with union

    UAW members picketing during the union’s strike
  • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
    General Motors Co
    GM says strike has cost $800mn as 5,000 more workers walk out

    United Auto Workers target lucrative factory for Suburban and Escalade models in widening action

    Striking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford chair warns extended strike will boost Tesla, Toyota and China

    Bill Ford says ‘future of the American automobile industry’ is at stake as UAW walkouts enter second month

    Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Kentucky Truck Plan in Louisville
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Automobiles
    US autoworkers strike: when will dealerships run out of cars to sell?

    Inventories of popular models like Ford Bronco are running low amid UAW action

    An unsold Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport in Wayne, Michigan
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Joe Biden
    Biden joins striking autoworkers on Michigan picket line

    President appears to back union demand for 40% pay rise

    US President Joe Biden speaks next to Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, in Michigan on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Biden and Trump plan rival Michigan trips in scrap for union votes

    President will visit picket line as autoworker strike raises temperature in 2024 swing state

    UAW members and workers at the Mopar Parts Center Line, a Stellantis parts distribution centre in Michigan
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Writers Guild of America
    Hollywood writers reach tentative deal with studios to end strike

    Breakthrough could pave way for agreement with striking actors’ union

    Placards by members of the Writers Guild of America outside Walt Disney Studios in May
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