After nearly six months of stalled contract negotiations, staffers from 38 public schools in Vancouver, Washington, spent two weeks on the picket line, postponing the start of the 2025–26 school year until a new contract was approved. The contract was not the decisive victory many workers might have hoped for, but it did include a 13.5% pay increase that exceeded previous offers from the district, which in turn refused to budge on paying employees for more than 11 months out of the year.

• Employer: Evergreen Public Schools

• Union: Public School Employees of Washington, SEIU Local 1948

• Strike length: 17 days

• Number of workers: 1,400

After failing to reach a new contract, GE Aerospace workers at two locations in the Cincinnati metropolitan area embarked on a three-week strike (and were joined for nearly two of those weeks by sympathy strikers from IAM Local 912) that yielded a new five-year contract including several key provisions: enhanced job security, additional vacation time, and