2018 and 2019 hit a 35-year high for major strikes, this week in the war on workers
Large work stoppages, aka large strikes, had been on the decline for years. That turned around in 2018—going from 25,300 workers involved in major strikes in 2017 to 485,200 in 2018—and stayed relatively high in 2019, the Economic Policy Institute reports. “Through 2017, the general trend was downward, but there was a substantial upsurge in workers …
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