UAW Local 405 members at the Triumph plant in West Hartford walked out at 5:00 a.m. on Nov 2 after the contract expired at midnight Oct 31 with no deal. Core demands: job security, successorship, cost-of-living protection, aerospace-standard wages, and healthcare costs.
Harvard Graduate Student Union (UAW Local 5118) · Cambridge, MA
HGSU-UAW began a second strike of 2026 on Oct. 27 after its 40-day spring strike ended without a contract, demanding safe work, fair pay, and the right to stay against a nearly $68 billion endowment.
Teamsters Local 952 (Joint Council 42) · Orange County, California
Unfair labor practice strike by county public works, waste and community resources workers after PERB found the county "refused to meet in good faith." Paused Oct 21 as an "olive branch of good faith"; board special session Oct 23 to consider a new contract proposal delivered via mediator; members to vote on any deal.
UNITE HERE Local 1 hotel workers struck Oct 9, 2026, ahead of the Chicago Marathon, after contracts expired Aug 31. Demands: better wages, healthcare, pension, civil rights protections, safer workloads, five-year contract. 40 more hotels have authorized strike votes; no settlement as of Oct 15.
7,000+ hotel workers across 46 hotels — 6 on the line
Cook County EMRS + community funds (MADR deployed) · Chicago region, IL + Gary, IN
After the Aug 11, 2026 storm system — tornadoes, flooding, structural damage and widespread debris across the Chicago region and Gary, IN — recovery is running on county and community funding. After the federal government denied Cook County's disaster assistance request following last year's storms, the county self-funded $15M in relief and is now investing $8M in debris removal. Gary runs a one-stop disaster relief shop, a no-income-requirement weatherhead repair program, free laundry and food drives, with the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief network deployed on the ground.
Ongoing — Cook County $8M debris investment (Oct 6); Gary weatherhead repairs taking applications; MADR on the ground since Aug 23
Lorain County Job and Family Services and Children's Services workers (UAW Local 2192) walked out Feb 18, 2026 after more than a year of bargaining with the county commissioners collapsed. Union frames the ask as the roughly $1/hour raise workers need to keep up with the cost of living; the board framed it as 26% over three years plus a \,000 signing bonus and issued a final-and-best offer. The UAW says the walkout is already the longest public-sector strike in Ohio history and is weeks from the longest in U.S. history. Nov 3, 2026: the union's electoral operation defeated incumbent Commissioner Jeff Riddell — the commissioner the UAW holds responsible for the strike — as Democrat Carolyn White won 68,454 to 54,910 (unofficial). The strike is ongoing.
approx. 150 JFS workers on strike since Feb 18, 2026 (259 days and counting)
The longest-running workplace unionization campaign in U.S. history. The first recognition win came in April 2021 in Buffalo, NY; the wave has continued store by store, state by state, since.
1,100+ stores have won recognition votes since the first win in Buffalo, NY
WFTU port-worker network (40+ ports: France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, Italy) + port unions in ~20 countries · Mediterranean ports (Genoa, Piraeus, Barcelona, Marseilles) plus Oakland, Veracruz, Australia, India and more
Dockworkers down tools Friday Oct 30 to refuse the movement of arms for the war on Gaza, under the "Ports for Peace - Jobs with Dignity" framework linking anti-war action to contracts, wages and hours. Second international day of action; coordination network formed in Istanbul May 2026.
113 ports across 5 continents in ~22 countries down tools for one day (Italy general strike); beat 1st day: 20 ports in 7 countries
UAW Local 405 members at Triumph Group — who make engine controls and other components for U.S. military aircraft — voted 99% (148-1, 86% turnout) to authorize a strike any time after the contract expires Oct 31, 2026. Demanding industry-leading wages, a cost-of-living adjustment, job security, profit sharing, affordable healthcare, and no concessions; union says Triumph made ~$680M profit over the last contract. Bargaining resumes Oct 27.
99% (148–1) authorization vote · 174 members · 86% turnout
SEIU Local 1000 members authorized a one-day unfair practice strike for Oct 21, 2026 — the first strike in the local's history — after the state contract expired June 30, 2026 and PERB advanced the union's bad-faith-bargaining charge. On Oct 16 PERB declined to block the strike after the union agreed to about 4,400 essential-worker exclusions; picket lines planned statewide with a rally and march in Sacramento.
First-ever strike in Local 1000 history: 96.2% strike vote, thousands on lines in 8 cities Oct 21; contract fight continues
Magee nurses (SEIU Healthcare PA) · Allegheny County, PA
On 2026-10-20 the Allegheny County Council voted 11-4 to mandate 12 weeks of paid parental leave at 100% of wages for employers with 15+ employees — the first county-level paid leave policy in the country, won by a NICU-nurse-led campaign.
First countywide paid leave in the US — 12 weeks at 100% of pay
won Oct 19, 2026 · 164 days
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Duquesne Light Strike
IBEW Local 29 · Pittsburgh, PA
First sustained work stoppage in roughly half a century at the utility powering 600,000+ customers across western PA. The grid held via a non-union/contractor contingency plan; the deal won committed additional hiring, a working-foreman position, two joint committees, and removal of the clause that barred Local 29 from organizing the company's non-union workforce.
First trilateral strike in UAW history. Began September 15, 2023; ratified October 30, 2023. Ended two-tier wages, added a $5,000 ratification bonus, EV profit-sharing, and a cost-of-living adjustment.
49,800 workers walked out for 46 days; two-tier wages ended; ~25% over 42 months
won Oct 29, 2023 · 46 days
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U.S. Rail Strike Averted
BLET · SBC · SMW(rail) · TWU · SMW — national railroads · National
Five unions representing roughly 70,000 rail workers issued a 72-hour strike notice in September 2023. A deal secured roughly $4,300 in first-year pay increases plus lump-sum payments, averting the first nationwide rail stoppage in over a century.
~70,000 rail workers; ~$4,300 first-year pay increase secured after a 72-hour strike notice
won Sep 22, 2023 · 5 days
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Amazon APW — Bessemer
Amazon Area Professional & Technical Employees · Bessemer, AL
In February 2023, roughly 6,000 workers at the JFK21 fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted to unionize by a large margin. The NLRB certified the union in June 2023, making it one of the largest workplace union wins in the warehouse industry.
~6,000 workers at one of the largest U.S. fulfillment centers
won Jun 5, 2023 · 113 days
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Delaney Hall Hunger Strike & Solidarity Line
Detainees of Delaney Hall (GEO Group / ICE) — Eyes on ICE, family line
Strike broken Jun 22 after ~1 month by transfers, solitary & commissary cut-offs; demands unmet; 90+ arrests; leader Martin Soto released Oct 6