Group Health strike ends; no talks in sight
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Workers at Group Health Cooperative wound up their five-day strike at midnight yesterday, with no reported progress on a new contract and the looming threat of future labor actions.
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Government doctors Wednesday ended a 19-day strike against affirmative action for India&#039;s lower castes, hours after the Supreme Court ordered them back to work.
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The United Auto Workers union and General Motors Corp reached a tentative contract on Wednesday, ending a national strike by 73,000 workers with a groundbreaking deal that includes a health-care trust fund.
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Group Health Cooperative nurses and other caregivers will go on strike today as planned, after the weekend brought no breakthrough in the standoff over employee health benefits.
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Emergency talks to avert a strike by classroom assistants have ended without progress, unions say.
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General Motors Corp  and the United Auto Workers union could negotiate into next week after failing to produce a breakthrough on the thorny issue of health care costs, people briefed on the progress of the talks said on Thursday.
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South Africa's health department began firing health workers on Saturday over a week-old strike by public servants which has crippled government hospitals and schools, state media reported.
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SAINT-QUENTIN, NB (CP) - Protesters in northern New Brunswick ended a highway blockade Monday in return for a chance to try persuading the provincial government to keep a local hospital open.
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Representatives of General Motors Corp   and the United Auto Workers union closed in on Saturday  on a tentative labor agreement that would slash health-care  costs for the top U.S. automaker.
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Nurses and other medical workers at Group Health Cooperative are expected to begin a five-day strike today across Western Washington, including at Olympia Medical Center.
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Galapagos park rangers on Monday ended a strike that had blocked tourist sites in the exotic islands for more than two weeks after the Ecuadorean government accepted their demands for a change in park leadership.
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DETROIT - General Motors Corp. won its struggle to unload $51 billion in retiree health costs and improve competitiveness in the latest round of contract talks with the United Auto Workers, but not without a short-lived strike that wrung promises out of GM to keep jobs at US plants.
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The planned London Underground strike on New Year&#39;s Eve has been called off after last ditch talks. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union were planning to strike on New Year&#39;s Eve in a dispute over pay and hours.
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SEATTLE -- A five-day strike by nurses and other health care workers was expected to begin Monday morning against Group Health Cooperative.
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More than 7,000 health care workers and registered nurses could hold a one-day strike at 10 Sutter Health hospitals on Dec. 1 if progress toward a contract is not made before then, union representatives announced Friday.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospitals are bracing for a strike by maintenance, technical and clerical workers following the failure of last-minute talks on the weekend.
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An Indian transport union spearheading a truckers' strike has called off its week-long agitation after reaching an agreement with the government to form a panel to study a controversial tax, an official said.