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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.