Hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States went on strike in 2024—from health care workers in California to public school teachers in Massachusetts to telecommunications workers in the South. The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that 271,500 workers were involved in “major work stoppages” in 2024. The number of workers involved in these stoppages decreased by 41% compared with 2023 but remained elevated compared with strike activity in the early 2000s and 2010s.
The growing number of workers involved in collective action should come as no surprise. The United States has been experiencing decades of high and rising income inequality, largely stemming from an unequal balance of power in the labor market. Research shows unions and collective action are key tools in ensuring workers receive shared prosperity (Bivens et al. 2023). In recent years, workers’ interest in unions has surged. The number of union election petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has doubled since 2021, and public support for unions has reached a 60-year high (Poydock et al. 2025). Further, the use of collective action as a tool to address the unequal balance of power between employers and workers is more crucial in a...
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