Jenny Brown

The largest and longest nurses strike in the city’s history will continue at NewYork-Presbyterian

Nurse Strike’s Focus Moves to Manhattan’s Richest Hospital Complex as Contracts Settle Elsewhere

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Delete the Starbucks App Now, Say Striking Workers

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Starbucks barista Christi Gomoljak has been on strike for 80 days.

Managers at her Disney store in Anaheim, California had taken away the workers’ restroom without consultation. “There was a note on our break table that we were losing our employee restroom,” she said. Workers would have to go elsewhere in the busy theme park.

Management also accused workers of not really being sick when they took their sick leave, said Gomoljak. On top of that, “We were told by our store managers not to talk to each other.

Already before Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, there were dire omens.

2025 in Review: Stark Battle Lines, Big Potential

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Montage of three photos, all showing details from crowds at large outdoor protests. 1: Workers hold blue signs printed with UAW logo, and someone behind holds a handmade "Bad DOGE" sign with Elon Musk's face. 2: An older white man and younger woman of color lean together. He has a fist in the air and she holds high a yellow sign with a fist graphic, the word "Solidarity!" and the Painters union logo. 3: A white woman holds a handmade "Bring Kilmar Home" sign with a photo of his face.

Several hundred more Starbucks baristas walked out Thursday, the 22nd day of their growing unfair

Red Cups Raised in Rebellion, Starbucks Strike Spreads

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A crowd raise huge red cups that say “Baristas on Strike”

Chanting “What’s outrageous? Starbucks wages! What’s appalling? Starbucks stalling!

No Contract Means No Coffee as Starbucks Baristas Walk Out

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A group rallies holding signs that say Red Cup Rebellion: Unfair Labor Practice Strike, with a Starbucks coffee cup with a red line through it.

Senate Democrats had some leverage, but they dropped the crowbar.

Shutdown Deal: Federal Workers Say No, Not This Way

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A close crowd with signs, including ‘Save our Services’ and someone with a bullhorn

Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won

Strike Captains and Practice Pickets: Starbucks Workers Aim to Bring a Contract Home

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Several people in high-viz green stocking caps gather around a sheet of paper, pickets in the background have signs saying ‘no contract, no coffee’

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form th

Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain

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A crowd with UAW signs gathers outside a union hall for a rally.

Thirty-five union locals, nationals, or other levels of union bodies in the federal sector signed

‘Willingly Forgoing Paychecks’: Federal Workers Support Shutdown Fight

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Several workers with signs march towards the camera. Some say “Hands Off” our workers, our union, Social Security and other items

Braving retaliation, thousands of federal workers across six agencies have signed open letters ch

Federal Workers Declare Five-Alarm Fires at Agencies

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Several people cheer while holding signs. One has a drawing of a dumpster on fire, “Courtesy of Lee Zeldin”

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