Strike

State Auditor Shad White also wants the University of Mississippi to withhold the two days' worth of pay, saying it's his responsibility to investigate the spending of public funds, including the salaries of public universities' faculty.

Urlacher shared a post to his Instagram story, glorifying Brett Favre for playing on the day his father died, while criticizing NBA players for standing up for Jacob Blake. Forte offered his prayers for people "blinded by their wealth, privilege and earthly fame."

In 1959, Minneapolis Lakers forward Elgin Baylor staged the first boycott of an NBA game over racial injustice experienced during a trip to Charleston, West Virginia with his team.

The Democratic representative noted that players were withholding their labor and not staging a consumer boycott.

In addition to Atlanta protesters calling for a black workers' strike on Juneteenth, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is shutting down ports on the West Coast that day.

The number of people in the store made social distancing impossible, so a workers' union is giving Ikea two days to make the store safer.

The mass action, which has been termed a sick-out, took place on May Day, a bastion for the international labor movement.

A coalition of workers from the four companies plan to call out sick or walk off the job this Friday in opposition to worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After years of budget cuts, Israeli diplomats and military attaches have gone on strike, leaving embassies and consulates closed.

At least 25,000 teachers went on strike on Thursday, demanding better pay, smaller class sizes and more support staff.

The monthlong UAW strike against GM may be over with concessions to workers — but here's what experts say about who really won.

At the time of writing, close to 1,000 people have pledged to not having children until their government can ensure a safe future for them. The movement was launched Monday.

One expert has calculated that, in all, up to seven jobs could be impacted for every striker.

The weekend strike on the Saudi Abqaiq facility appears to have dashed any hopes of a detente between Washington and Tehran.

GOP Senator Tom Cotton said he supports a military strike against Iran in the wake of attacks against commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week.

The facility in northern France churns out 600,000 jars of the popular hazelnut spread each day.

O'Reilly remarks followed Milano's tweets about the Hollywood veteran and his Trump fandom.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said it was "the height of hypocrisy" for DeVos to criticize teachers.

Democratic hopefuls have pounced on the issue, siding with workers.

"One of our kids could have eaten those cookies and that's what's scary," one picketing worker said.

The Denver Classroom Teachers Association overwhelmingly voted to authorize a walkout earlier this week.

Staff in Australia are being urged to go on strike.

Turkey's foreign minister called U.S. concerns about the Kurds "ridiculous excuses."

Sparked by a viral New Year's Eve fight video at a St. Petersburg location, McDonald's cashiers, cooks and custodians in Florida staged a walkout protest Tuesday morning.

"Faced with this irresponsibility [of the government], we are forced to be irresponsible in our actions," one union leader said.

"Especially on a day like Black Friday, employees should be the central focus," a union representative said.

The new warning message in "Pokémon Go" likely does not mean you are receiving a strike.

Russia has said the United States and its Western allies could amass the forces needed to attack Syria in just over a day, claiming they were preparing to do so under the false pretense of a staged chemical attack.

Nationwide prison protests have called attention to work conditions that advocates are likening to slavery. Inmates cook, clean and perform other necessary operations for little, if any, compensation.

The "sovereign bolivar" was launched on Monday as a revaluation and renaming of the old bolivar.