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Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low

  • Written by Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically lowStriking members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in New York City in 1958.AP Photo

More than 323,000 workers – including nurses, actors, screenwriters, hotel cleaners and restaurant servers – walked off their jobs during the first eight months of 2023. Hundreds of thousands of the employees of delivery giant UPS would...

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