US labor unions engaged in the most work stoppages last year since 2005, with education services workers accounting for three out of every five employees involved, according to Bloomberg Law data.
Retail was the most active industry for work stoppages, with 125 strikes out of the 314 overall. Starbucks Inc. alone faced at least 107 strikes. But even without the walkouts at the coffee retailer, as unions focused on organizing its local stores, last year was still a record setting year for worker actions, according to Bloomberg Law analyst Robert Combs.
Manufacturing and health care were two other sectors that had dozens of work stoppages last year. But of the at least 222,306 workers involved in stoppages, more than 137,000 were educators, researchers, and other academic professionals.
In addition to 314 strikes, there were three employer-initiated lockouts in 2022.
The work stoppage numbers were compiled from Bloomberg Law’s database of work stoppages. It includes worker-initiated strikes and management-initiated lockouts that began during 2022. Unlike the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ work stoppages program, Bloomberg Law’s data includes stoppages involving fewer than 1,000 employees.
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