Detroit cancels school amid strike
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Detroit Public Schools officials canceled classes until further notice Tuesday, the eighth day of a teachers strike.
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A judge on Friday ordered Detroit Public Schools teachers back to work after the district and the teachers union could not reach a tentative labor agreement despite nearly continuous negotiations.
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Around 4,000 workers at three factories of German car giant Volkswagen halted production for about an hour overnight in the first official warning strikes aimed at putting pressure on management in the deadlocked wage talks, unions said.
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The Nigerian high court today banned a planned general strike that would target oil plants in the worldâs seventh largest exporter.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The first day of classes following the massacre of more than 330 hostages at a school in this southern Russian city have been abruptly canceled, a principal at one of Beslan&#39;s schools has told CNN.
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Workers at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany decided Wednesday to end their nearly weeklong walkout in protest at thousands of threatened job cuts, a union official said, ending a strike that has forced other factories to a halt.
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A strike planned by London Underground signal workers on New Yearâs Eve was called off today after a deal was agreed during last-ditch talks.
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Teachers overwhelmingly rejected a two-year contract proposal by the city public school district on Sunday and decided to strike.
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DETROIT, Sept. 25 -- United Auto Workers President Ronald A. Gettelfinger Tuesday morning said he is hoping for a quick end to the day-old strike against General Motors as the ripple effects began to be felt -- especially in Canada, where auto plants already are shutting down and as many as 100,0...
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DePaul University canceled the one remaining class taught by a controversial professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust.
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Teachers demanding better pay refused to show up for work Wednesday and forced the cancellation of classes in at least 12 counties.
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Many schools in Italy have been affected by a strike over school reforms and feared budget cuts.
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Police arrested trade union leaders and blocked streets and the main square of the capital to thwart an anti-government march, and the main labor federation apparently called off a planned nationwide strike at the last minute.
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DETROIT, Sept. 11 -- Thousands of striking Detroit teachers defied a judge's order to return to work Monday as school officials and the union resumed contract talks in the two-week dispute.
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Israeli high school teachers ended a two-month strike on Thursday after receiving a pay raise and government promises to redress some of the problems in the Israeli school system, including class size.
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Two central Wisconsin school districts canceled classes Thursday as a sheriff warned that violent storms and tornadoes forecast for the state could be the "granddaddy of all super cells." Other schools let out early.
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Jaguar workers have voted against strike action in protest at the axing of car production in Coventry. Although the switch from Browns Lane to production facilities at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham forces