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Strikes

Analysis

Big strikes creep up again in 2022

Mar 2, 2023

At least 23 major work stoppages broke out last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Feb. 22—up from 16 the previous year.

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.

Analysis

U.S. strikes rare but increasing in 2021

Mar 2, 2022

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.

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.

Analysis

Nationwide strike wave continued in 2019

Feb 11, 2020

The strike wave that began in 2018 continued in 2019, according to the annual work stoppages report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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.

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