The ILR Labor Action Tracker’s 2022 report is out, and it’s a must-read for anyone who’s obsessed enough with the US union movement to subscribe to a weekly newsletter on the topic. It also fills a crucial gap now that the Biden administration simply stopped tracking strikes under 1,000 workers. Eric Dirnbach also came out with
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This is so thorough!
Hey Jonah, I gotta come to the defense of Biden here. It was not Biden who made it so the BLS ignores work-stoppages of < 1,000 workers, but Reagan!
True, but it was under Biden that the FMCS *also* stopped tracking/releasing data on those smaller work stoppages. (Or technically in the final days of the Trump admin, but not restarted under Biden) https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/