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Unionized Microsoft Developers Authorize Strike After Failing To Reach A Deal After Two Years Of Negotiations
April 4, 2025 // "We’re not afraid to use our union power to ensure that we can keep making great games," said Skylar Hinnat, a quality assurance tester and member of ZeniMax Workers United-CWA. Hinnat continued, "All of us want to be working. We hope that Microsoft will allow us to do so with dignity and fairness to all by securing a first contract with our union." Some of the key issues the ZWU-CWA is bargaining over are expanding remote work options, better pay, workplace improvements, and mandating that Microsoft inform the union of any intentions it may have to outsource quality assurance work to a third party.
Amazon workers at delivery facility in Skokie, Illinois, authorize strike
December 18, 2024 // The union said it gave Amazon until Dec. 15 to negotiate a contract after hundreds of workers at the Skokie delivery facility organized with Teamsters Local 705 earlier this year, but so far Amazon has maintained the drivers are contractors, not employees, and has refused to even recognize a union.
Philadelphia’s largest city workers union votes to authorize strike; no walkout at this time
November 15, 2024 // District 33 has vowed to give a 10-day warning about any strike. The union represents at least 9,000 mostly blue-collar employees, including sanitation workers. They have been working without a contract since July
Apple agrees to first US labor deal
July 30, 2024 // Apple has about 270 Apple stores in the United States, which are all owned by the company. Only one other store, in Oklahoma City, has voted to unionize, joining a different union, the Communications Workers of America. That store is not covered by this tentative labor deal.
MPS support professionals vote to authorize strike
April 27, 2024 // Education support professionals working in Minneapolis Public Schools voted to authorize a strike on Friday. Support professionals overwhelmingly approved the potential strike in a vote last night. This comes after the teachers chapter of the union reached a tentative agreement with the district. The union said 92% of members who voted were in favor of the authorization.
Sesame Workshop Writers Authorize Potential Strike
April 18, 2024 // In the negotiations for a new contract, which began on Feb. 13, the union is seeking to institute “industry standard” annual raises and fixed residuals for re-use on streaming platforms, as well as a performance-based bonus when their work does well on streaming platforms. They are also looking to expand their contract to cover writing for animation and social media work, which would add members to the existing bargaining unit. They are further working on regulating the use of AI within the contract and establishing a paid parental leave fund. “No one wants to see a picket line on Sesame Street,” WGA East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said in a statement. “Millions of parents and families around the world are going to have a lot of questions. They might ask why the bosses at Sesame Workshop are ignoring their company’s own messages of kindness and fairness.”
Actors’ Equity Assn. Authorizes A Strike Against Broadway League Over Expiring Development Agreement
February 13, 2024 // The labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre has voted to authorize a strike against The Broadway League, the trade association for Broadway. The National Council of Actors’ Equity Association’s unanimous vote does not begin a strike. But it is a saber rattle that business as usual could be disrupted if they can’t reach consensus on the Development Agreement, which supports the creation of new works by Broadway League producers.
Union authorizes strike against Bud Light parent company
December 26, 2023 // The Teamsters union has overwhelmingly voted to authorize a potential strike against Anheuser-Busch’s breweries in the U.S. if a new contract agreement cannot be reached early next year. According to the union’s president, 99% of its 5,000 members who work at 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries voted to approve a strike “if Anheuser-Busch’s executives can’t get their act together to negotiate an agreement that respects workers.”
Teamsters authorize strike if new deal with Anheuser-Busch is not reached
December 18, 2023 // The Teamsters members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a potential strike, as 99% voted in favor. The current agreement between the Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch is set to expire on Feb. 29, 2024.
Brainerd-area grocery store workers vote to authorize strike in days leading up to Christmas
December 14, 2023 // Roughly 650 grocery workers in the Brainerd area announced their intentions to go on strike in the days leading up to Christmas due to what they call unfair labor practices. Union members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 say they've been without a contract since Dec. 3, and have been subject to "interrogation, surveillance, and intimidation" from their employers.