Over 100,000 workers walked out in 2022, showing that Americans' demands for better conditions aren't going away
Around 120,000 workers walked out in 2022, marking a 49% increase from 2021 — and a sign that workers' willingness to take action for what they want remains strong.' annual work stoppages data, there were 23 major work stoppages — meaning stoppages that involved at least 1,000 workers and lasted for at least one shift — that started in 2022. All told, 120,600 workers walked out in 2022.
"In the past couple years, we've definitely seen a resurgence in the labor movement," Margaret Poydock, a policy analyst and government affairs specialist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told Insider."We've seen strong support in labor, because workers can see what unions can do for them. They see that unions can help negotiate better pay, better benefits, safer working conditions. The pandemic kind of revealed how much work sucked.
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