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A strike is an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands. Workers strike over a wide array of issues, but the most common demands include higher wages, safer working conditions and better benefits.
A strike is a powerful tool for workers looking to effect change in their workplace. Halting production can impact a company’s bottom line and draw public attention to workers’ complaints.
For example, you have probably seen reports of screenwriters and actors striking in Hollywood over fair pay and other issues. The strikes include members of the Writers Guild of America, a union representing 11,500 screenwriters, and the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents 160,000 performers. The strikes effectively shut down Hollywood, canceling or postponing new movies and new seasons of TV shows. The strikes will do more than interrupt people’s media consumption, though. The last time TV and film writers went on strike in 2007, the economic impact was calculated at $2.1 billion, including 37,700 lost jobs, according to a report by the Milken Institute, a think tank focused on economic development.
Even the threat of a strike (especially one involving hundreds of thousands of workers), can compel an employer to make the changes called for by employees. Recently, the Teamsters union, which represents 340,000...
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