The desire to strike is growing in the US labor market

Education: Especially education, health and social assistance, industry, retail and information It appeared according to the study It has been hit by a lot of strikes in the past year.

• The education sector represented 135,380 strikers. Plus, the sector represents 60 percent of all workers laid off in the U.S. in the past year.
  • Johnnie Gallas, research director and an expert on labor relations at Cornell University, points to actions involving approximately 48,000 people at the University of California, San Francisco.
  • “But these measures reflect the continuing activity of primary and secondary school teachers,” Kallas argues.

Electricity: The largest number of strikes were organized in the housing and food sectors (144).

• This sector accounts for more than one-third of the total number of operations. However, only about three thousand workers were involved in those strikes.
  • That represents just 3 percent of all workers who went on strike in the U.S. last year.
  • Additionally, Callas argues, 91 percent of the housing and food service walkouts were led by employees of the Starbucks coffee chain and fast-food chain workers who campaigned for a $15 minimum wage.
• The researcher also notes that 46 percent of work disruptions last year lasted at least one day.
• It also found that 32 percent of the strikes were organized by non-union workers.

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