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If you haven’t gotten an 8.6% raise over the past year, you’re not keeping up with inflation, which is at its highest level since 1981.

Two decades of Gallup polls show a trend: Americans are increasingly calling themselves “working class” again.

Unemployment was down to 4.0% last month, almost back to 3.5%, where it was two years ago before the pandemic.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports annually on large work stoppages. Here are the 16 major actions happened in 2021, and how they turned out.

The year 2021 had twice as many large work stoppages as 2020, but still far fewer than in the teachers-union-led strike surge of 2018-2019.

Wages for U.S. workers rose 4.5% in 2021, the fastest in 13 years. The biggest were in “leisure and hospitality” where wages jumped 14%.

Last year’s jump in the percentage of workers who are union-represented appears to have been related to COVID.

The year 2021 in labor: A strike wave, eye-popping wage gains in bargaining, statehouse victories. And polls say unions are popular again.

In one survey by Oregon Nurses Association, 60% of nurses said they’re considering leaving the profession.

In the latest Gallup poll results, 68% of Americans said they approve of unions, 28% disapprove, and 4% had no opinion.