July was one of the busiest months for strikes in three decades, reflecting growing public support for unions and increased worker leverage in an era of low unemployment, as tens of thousands of workers have pushed employers for higher wages to keep up with high inflation.
The labor unrest erupting in Hollywood, where 170,000 actors have joined 11,500 screenwriters on picket lines, is far from the only example of workers banding together to demand more from their employers this summer.
Baristas, national park bus drivers, hotel housekeepers, lawyers, book sellers, locomotive plant workers, sour cream producers and brewery workers also went on strike in July.
Meanwhile, 150,000 autoworkers at the Big Three Detroit automakers are threatening to walk off the job as soon as mid-September.
And just last week, the country narrowly avoided the biggest strike in years.
Some 340,000 UPS workers were poised to walk out, until a tentative agreement gave way to some of the biggest wage gains for those workers in decades.
Those workers must vote to approve the deal and could still walk off the job.
Public support for unions has been steadily rising since the Great Recession and took off during the coronavirus pandemic, with 71% of Americans approving of unions, according to a 2022 Gallup survey, a high not seen since 1965.
Half of workers in nonunion positions say they would support a union forming in their workplace, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll of workers finds.
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