See the live feed below, courtesy of Fox News: Denver teachers went on strike Monday after failing to reach a pay deal with administrators. The struggle between the two sides has been going on for around a year now, causing multiple reports of walk outs. Denver Public Schools on Twitter had the following to say:…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Less than 1 percent of the nearly 18,000 U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria yielded reports of possible civilian casualties, according to the Pentagon’s monthly civilian casualty assessment. Of the less than one percent of strikes that resulted in possible civilian casualties, only a…
By Blake Neff Over 90 percent of Detroit schools were closed Monday as the system was rocked by yet another “sickout,” with thousands of teachers taking simultaneous sick days in order to force the system to shut down. The sickout was called by the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) Sunday, in an effort to pressure Detroit…
By Blake Neff Britain’s single-payer health care system descended into chaos Tuesday as thousands of the country’s junior doctors went on strike over a pay dispute. Junior doctors (roughly the equivalent of medical residents in the U.S.) have had intermittent work stoppages over the last few months, but until now they kept working in critical…
Blake Neff Students at an impoverished school district in Illinois have lost an entire month of school thanks to a strike by teachers which still hasn’t ended. The teacher walkout in East St. Louis, a suburb of the Missouri metropolis, began Oct. 1 when teachers rejected a deal that would have given them $2,000 apiece and…
Connor D. Wolf A single paper company estimates it lost $14 million solely from a recent worker strike, according to a financial report released Wednesday. The Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. has several locations around the states that generally report good results. While the company did well overall, union unrest at its Longview, Wash.,…