Strikes Archives - nwLaborPress

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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