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Strikes
Analysis
Fewer strikes in 2024
Major work stoppages were down in 2024, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, but still more than any year between 2001 and 2018.
Analysis
STRIKE STORIESÂ
Only two in a thousand U.S. workers took part in a strike last year. We asked readers who’ve experienced a strike to tell their stories. Â
Analysis
The Strike Returns
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bloomberg agree: 2023 was the biggest strike year in decades. Â
Collective bargaining
Strike Stories
2023 was the biggest strike year in decades. We asked readers who struck last year to tell what it was like.
Analysis
Big strikes creep up again in 2022
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.
Analysis
Lessons from the picket line
Labor’s ultimate weapon is rarely used today. So we asked readers who’ve been on strike: What’s it like? Three of them shared their stories.
Labor History
What’s it like to strike?
Strikes, once common, are rare today. We asked Northwest Labor Press readers to share their strike stories.
Analysis
The 16 biggest strikes of 2021
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
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
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?Â
#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
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
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?
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?
In an era when the strike seems all but dead, it feels like the beginning of a strike wave.
Analysis
The Strike: U.S. labor’s long-lost weapon
Major work stoppages have declined over 95 percent since the 1940s.
Analysis
THE DISAPPEARING STRIKE
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
The Verizon and NFL strikes were the year's biggest.
Workers Rights
Labor still reeling from 1981 PATCO strike
The strike had a broad impact on labor, says Georgetown University history professor Joseph McCartin.
