After a 2020 dispute between Fresno’s biggest healthcare system and a physicians group put in jeopardy the central San Joaquin Valley’s only Level I trauma center status, the two sides have reached a settlement following a lawsuit. Community Health System announced Monday in a press release a $1.2 million settlement with the Central California Faculty […]
By Heekyong Yang, Ju-min Park and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -A Samsung Electronics union in South Korea will begin escalating strike action next week by staging the first ever walkout over demands for higher wages, union officials said on Wednesday. The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), which has about 28,000 members, or more than a […]
(Reuters) -Dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday as some chanted “free Palestine” to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has supported Israel throughout the war in Gaza, according to a video posted on social media. Figures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing […]
DE PERE — Over 70 St. Norbert College students staged a walkout Wednesday to protest recent cuts and layoffs, gathering outside the college’s Main Hall and president’s office chanting “Students united, we’ll never be divided.” The college announced 41 layoffs last fall,. Spokesperson Mike Counter later said that number was actually 35 positions. Earlier in March, […]
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two Republican state senators in Oregon are seeking statewide office after being barred from reelection for staging a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun control. Sen. Brian Boquist, who also made headlines for his threatening comments toward state police during GOP-led walkouts in […]
BERLIN (AP) — Many of Germany’s train drivers staged a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in the latest installment of a long-running and bitter dispute over working hours with the country’s main railway operator, while a walkout by cabin crew at Lufthansa added to disruptions for travelers. The GDL union called on drivers of state-owned Deutsche […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. About 12,000 junior doctors in South Korea have been off the job for a month to protest a […]
(Bloomberg) — Lee Kyung-ja’s sister is caught in the middle of a labor dispute between South Korean doctors and the government, and her life is at risk. Most Read from Bloomberg “This walkout is driving me mad,” said Lee, a 70-year-old visitor to a local hospital in Cheongju, thinking of her sister who has been […]
(Bloomberg) — South Korea will complete sending out this week its first license suspension notices to thousands of doctors who have walked off their jobs in protest at a government plan to increase medical school enrollment. Most Read from Bloomberg The doctors who receive notices will have to submit their views to the government by […]
(Bloomberg) — South Korean police are set to question key figures in a walkout by thousands of doctors who oppose a plan to increase medical school enrollments as the government prepares punishments for those who defy orders to return to work. Most Read from Bloomberg Joo Sooho, a spokesman for the Korean Medical Association, said […]
Frustrated with teachers and administrators, students at a local high school staged a walkout Tuesday to draw attention to alleged antisemitic incidents they say they’ve experienced on campus, the most serious of which was an assault on a Jewish classmate that they don’t feel has been properly addressed. The walkout, organized by a group of […]
(Bloomberg) — South Korea called on about 9,000 trainee doctors who have walked off the job to return to work by Thursday without facing reprisals, trying to end a protest that has led to canceled surgeries and patients being turned away from emergency rooms. Most Read from Bloomberg Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said Monday the […]