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If the 5.5% increase is not implemented, Ms Speed said there would be a "very difficult environment" with health care workers "on the picket lines post Christmas".

Otium distributed the checks days after workers picketed in front of the empty restaurant, demanding to be paid after weeks of going without their final checks.

“I know what it is to be on a picket line and to fight for your rights as an employee.”

Union dockworkers from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation, halting the movement of billions of dollars worth of goods, ABC News reported.

Longshoremen started picketing after their six-year labor contract with the United States Maritime Alliance expired at midnight.