strike

LOS ANGELES — While a massive teacher strike has since ended, there are still many teachers not going back into the class room, teachers from 3 charter schools also took the streets. While 30,000 Los Angeles Unified...

LOS ANGELES — A strike 20 months in the making. Thousands of teachers, students, and allies marched out of the classroom demanding higher wages, smaller classroom sizes, and support staff in the nation’s second-largest school district. Many...

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of faculty members from the United Teachers of Los Angeles office pick up thousands of signs and placards, which are expected be seen throughout the city on Thursday. “It is a last stand...

by Lalaine Ignao, ABS-CBN News HONOLULU, HI — Union organization Unite Here Local 5 has been in negotiations with Kyo-Ya Hotel and Resorts since this past summer, after contracts were expired and the company refused to renew them....

HONOLULU, HI — When the strike first began, about 7,000 Marriott employees filled the streets in cities including San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Boston and Detroit. In Hawaii alone, 2,700 workers have been protesting and will continue...

Over a month ago, Eric Tandoc and Hiyasmin Saturay were among 19 people arrested at a violent dispersal of a protest at the NutriAsia plant in Bulacan, where workers and the condiment giant have been in...

DOWNEY, CA — While many people took the day off, some health workers in California went to work, demanding that one of the states largest employers, keeps its workers, rather than use outsourcing to cut costs. About a...

SAN FRANCISCO — These are just some of the people who were arrested after protesting for better pay from Marriott hotels. According to San Francisco police, an estimated 75 protesters were arrested for blocking traffic on Powell...

From an undisclosed location outside Bulacan, Hiyasmin Saturay tells BA that she and her husband Eric Tandoc are doing well and being extra cautious. But Tandoc, Saturay says, is still nursing some bruises. Tandoc has said...

by Patricia Nabong, ABS-CBN News, Chicago CHICAGO —Vinegar and soy sauce were spilled in front of the Consulate General of the Philippines in Chicago, as Filipino-American activists and their allies continue various campaigns to demand justice and...