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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.
Quantic Dream employees staged a Paris strike to protest up to 115 layoffs from the Spellcasters Chronicles team, arguing Star Wars Eclipse cannot be finished without that crew; the dispute comes as NetEase’s ownership and a Lucasfilm progress review put the game’s future under scrutiny.
IBEW Local 614 says roughly 1,600 PECO workers will strike on July 4 if a contract isn’t reached after five months of negotiations, citing unresolved issues over wages and benefits. The union claims PECO pays about 30% less than peers, while the company says its offer is fair and plans to use trained contractors if a work stoppage occurs. Talks resume July 2 with a federal mediator involved; both sides have filed unfair-labor-practice complaints. A PECO strike would be PECO's first in 145 years and could impact service to about 1.7 million electric and 550,000 gas customers in the Philadelphia region, amid broader Exelon-profit growth.
The independent French video game union STJV is calling for a sector-wide strike on June 25 across the video game industry to protest rising layoffs and alleged abuse by studio bosses, with a picket outside Quantic Dream’s Paris headquarters. Quantic Dream has reportedly increased layoffs to around 115 workers after announcing the removal of Spellcasters Chronicles from Steam, following earlier warnings of job cuts, and the union says more actions will follow as part of its Summer Greve Fest.
An AP source says a disabled oil tanker received warnings before the United States fired on it, shedding light on the sequence of events amid mounting regional tensions.
Iran reportedly disclosed a fresh detail about a plot to strike Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; experts say Trump’s comments offer a potential pathway to de-escalate the situation, though the full context and implications remain unclear.
About 2,000 SoFi Stadium hospitality workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, with a walkout possible at any time and potentially timed around the U.S. men’s World Cup opener on June 12; the operator says it has a contingency staffing plan and remains hopeful for a deal.
SoFi Stadium workers in Inglewood voted to authorize a strike if contract talks with Legends Global stall, just days before the U.S. World Cup opener at the venue. About 2,000 bartenders, servers, cooks and dishwashers are seeking higher pay, job security, protections from subcontracting, and limits on immigration enforcement, with talks moving slowly and no guarantee of a walkout. Legends Global says it aims to reach an agreement and deliver a strong World Cup experience.