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Strikes Are Down, but Workers Are Rediscovering Their Power
In the summer of 2020, we decided to count every strike in the United States. The Labor Action Tracker (LAT), currently the only comprehensive strike database in the country, was conceived amid the upsurge of activism during the most intense phase of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. At the time, many businesses shut down, and people walked out of work to protest racism and police violence.
Labor Action Tracker 2022
We are pleased to release the second Cornell-ILR Labor Action Tracker Annual Report, which presents key findings from our data on work stoppages in 2022. We have created a comprehensive database of strikes across the United States because official data sources only record a small fraction of this activity. Since funding cuts by the Reagan administration in the early-1980s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) excludes work stoppages of less than 1,000 workers from its database.
Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well
Having faced shop floor labor rebellions at multiple warehouses this past year, Amazon is now confronting a new rebellion in the boardroom. Public pension-fund trustees in New York and Illinois are demanding that the company replace two members of its board of directors for failure to rein in skyrocketing injury rates among employees and massive employee turnover.
The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Victory Was the First Step
But with the full support of the New York City labor movement and the broader community, the workers can win. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark April 15, 2022 Amazon Labor Union member Tristan Lion Dutchin gestures as he waits for the voting results on April 1, 2022. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Photo)) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Get The Nation’s Weekly Newsletter Fridays. The best of the week.
The Real Numbers Behind the Labor Movement
For the first time in decades, we will know exactly how many strikes there are in a year. By Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman and Leonardo Grageda April 5, 2022 fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark April 5, 2022 A union worker holds a strike sign as he pickets with nurses outside of the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on November 10, 2021, in San Francisco.
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