Workers waged hundreds of work stoppages in 2021, marking millions of total “strike days” with 140,000 workers involved.
Because this is the first year that researchers have put together more comprehensive data, there’s no baseline from recent years with which to compare last year’s data. Compared to thefrom the late 1970s, however, 2021’s work stoppages are only a fraction of what they used to be; in 1979, BLS recorded nearly 5,000 work stoppages, with the median stoppage lasting about a month.
The labor movement appears to be on the rise again after many years of relative dormancy, however, and Friedman says that strikes in 2021 may have been inspired by the labor movement in 2018 , which saw an increase in strikes. Those strikes may have “captured the imagination” of the labor movement, Friedman toldAccording to the research, the fact that nearly a third of work stoppages were waged by nonunion workers last year could be a sign that workers are ready for unrest. As last year’s so-called
demonstrated, many labor protests are individualized, but “more collective forms of response are still in the arsenal,” Friedman said. Major union campaigns are also evidence that the labor movement is growing stronger, with Bessemer, Alabama,
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