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The Big Union Contract Fights Coming in 2025
Postal workers across Canada are out on strike as 2024 draws to a close. Who might strike in 2025? Photo: CUPW
https://labornotes.org/2024/12/big-union-contract-fights-coming-2025
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.
ALIGNED TO FIGHT
The list includes some big contracts lined up so unions can bargain and possibly strike together.
California teachers in dozens of districts covering tens of thousands of educators have lined up their contracts to expire in June. These include unions in Los Angeles (35,000), San Diego (7,000), San Francisco (6,500), and Oakland (3,000). On the East Coast, another major contract, for 14,000 Philadelphia teachers, expires August 31.
Contracts expire September 30 for 57,000 workers at the health care giant Kaiser Permanente. Ten unions negotiate together as the Alliance of Health Care Unions—not to be confused with the SEIU-led Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which settled an agreement last year after the largest-ever strike in health care. The Alliance split from the Coalition in 2018.
FULL story at link above.
