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Musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra voted to authorize the ensemble’s first strike in its 145-year history as contract talks with management continue, potentially disrupting upcoming performances while a resolution is pursued.
SPEEA members at Boeing rejected the proposed contracts, setting the stage for a possible strike after the fall deadline as talks continue toward an October contract expiration.
Boeing engineers and technical workers represented by SPEEA rejected the four-year contract offer and gave their negotiating team authority to call a strike when the deal expires in October. The terms included inflation-linked pay raises capped at 3%, a point of contention since inflation in the Seattle area has outpaced that cap. A work stoppage could further delay Boeing’s certification efforts for the 737 Max 10 and 777-9.
A surprise staff strike at Ben-Gurion Airport grounded flights from 2:00 pm, causing heavy disruption with departures operating without luggage and roughly 100,000 travelers affected; operations resumed by 3:00 pm as authorities ordered a return to normal and warned of ongoing disruption during peak season. Netanyahu later removed the Airports Authority union chair’s Likud membership, and the strike’s estimated cost to the economy was put at NIS 25-30 million.
Canada’s CUPE union representing 4,400 WestJet flight attendants reached a tentative wage agreement with the airline, ending a strike that had led to hundreds of canceled flights. Details will be shared with members ahead of a ratification vote; the deal reportedly expands pay to cover time at check-in as well as in-flight work and includes general wage increases. WestJet had canceled about 615 flights through Aug. 4 amid the disruption, and previously offered a 13% raise this year followed by 2.5% annually through 2029 plus additional pay for all hours worked.
Canada’s WestJet and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 4,400 flight attendants, reached a tentative wage agreement to end a strike that had led to hundreds of flight cancellations; the deal will be put to a ratification vote and aims to pay for all hours worked and modernize the flight‑credit system, after WestJet previously offered multi‑year wage increases and additional pay for hours worked. The disruption affected tens of thousands of travelers during a holiday weekend.
WestJet flight attendants could strike as soon as Sunday over pay for pre-takeoff duties (ground pay). CUPE 8125 has issued a 72-hour strike notice while talks continue. WestJet is offering free changes and refunds for affected travelers, and has canceled some flights to minimize disruption; Encore and codeshare services are not affected. If a strike happens, Canadian rules require rebooking on the next available flight, with refunds or re-accommodation as applicable.
In DR Congo’s Ituri province, Ebola workers and security teams have walked off the job over unpaid wages amid an outbreak with 1,729 cases and 582 deaths, threatening response efforts; the CDC says its effort will last for months and require more staff, with Level 1 activation, though hiring this year has been limited to 38 new hires.
Thousands of nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital walked out for a one-day strike, the largest nursing walkout in Massachusetts history, in a dispute over pay and health-insurance terms in ongoing union contract talks, with picketing outside the hospital and support from Teamsters.
PECO workers ended a three-day strike after a tentative five-year contract that includes pensions and retirement health benefits for newer hires, 4% annual raises for linemen and gas technicians (4 years) plus 4.5% in year five, and 3% per year for call-center staff; the agreement also adds 24-hour overtime notice and upgraded pay. The 1,600-member IBEW Local 614 workforce will vote to ratify, ending PECO’s first strike in its 145-year history amid heat, outages, and widespread restoration efforts. PECO profits reportedly rose after 2025 rate hikes.
The first PECO strike in the company’s 145-year history moved into its second day after about 1,600 workers walked off due to stalled negotiations; the union alleges assaults on picketers in Philadelphia and Chester County, while PECO says the claims are false and a federal mediator is helping facilitate talks.
PECO’s 1,600 unionized workers launched the utility’s first-ever strike after negotiations collapsed; the IBEW Local 614 says PECO offered about a 20% wage hike over five years plus enhanced retirement and medical benefits, but the union contends wages run roughly 30% below peers and is pressing for pension and health benefits for newer hires and a retirement policy based on gross payroll. PECO says it will maintain service during the walkout amid a July heat wave, and the strike has drawn cross-union support with reports of alleged assaults on workers that the company denies.
About 1,600 PECO workers represented by IBEW Local 614 walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after negotiations failed to produce a contract, launching a strike during a holiday weekend and ongoing heat wave. The union seeks wages aligned with industry standards, a universal pension, retirement medical benefits, and a unified contract; PECO says it has offered a market-competitive package with nearly a 20% wage increase over five years and enhanced benefits, and a federal mediator has been assigned though the union has not agreed to participate. Both sides say they will continue talks to reach a fair agreement, with PECO maintaining operations through contingency plans.
Ukraine’s military says it conducted a multi-target strike hitting Russia’s Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery at Kstovo (reportedly damaging the AVT-6 unit and sparking a fire), a Russian drone warehouse in Zaporizhzhia, a logistics bridge over the Siverskyi Donets in Luhansk, and a command post near Vilshana in Kharkiv region, marking another broad operation that follows earlier drone attacks and interruptions to refining activity.
Quantic Dream developers staged a strike over mass layoffs, arguing that removing 115 inactive staff will jeopardize or delay Star Wars Eclipse, a project some say could be canceled; the workers say their expertise is still needed and that understaffing hurts production, while the studio says the layoffs mainly affect the Spellcasters Chronicles team and that Star Wars Eclipse is still years away from release.