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Strikes

Labor History

What’s it like to strike?

Mar 2, 2022

Strikes, once common, are rare today. We asked Northwest Labor Press readers to share their strike stories.

Analysis

The 16 biggest strikes of 2021

Mar 2, 2022

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

Comment

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Mar 2, 2022

What caused labor’s decline, and is key to its revival? No answer has been more persuasive than the one I got from a guy named Joe in 2011.

National

A massive strikewave? 

Oct 13, 2021

#Striketober? Over 100,000 workers are on the verge of striking, and the mood is very resolute. They’re not kidding around.

Analysis

Strikes disappear again in 2020

Feb 19, 2021

It looks like the 2018-2019 strike surge was a blip, not the start of a new trend. Last year there were just 8 strikes of over 1,000 workers.

Collective Bargaining

Are we bringing the strike back?

Feb 11, 2019

Back from rock bottom, strikes exploded in number last year.

Analysis

STRIKE! Could the red-state teacher walkouts herald a return of labor’s long-forgotten tactic?

Apr 4, 2018

In an era when the strike seems all but dead, it feels like the beginning of a strike wave.

Analysis

THE DISAPPEARING STRIKE

Jan 27, 2015

2014 had the second fewest strikes since the federal government began keeping records in 1947

Workers Rights

Strikes were up in 2011, but still extremely rare

Feb 8, 2012

The Verizon and NFL strikes were the year’s biggest.

Collective Bargaining

Labor still reeling from 1981 PATCO strike

Jun 1, 2007

The strike had a broad impact on labor, says Georgetown University history professor Joseph McCartin.

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