Labor

How Many Strikes are There in the US?

How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases an annual work stoppage summary in February reporting the number of strikes and lockouts over the prior year, but […]

Industry

WSJ: Biden’s Big Labor Bind

“If Washington’s grand infrastructure talks collapse, as they likely will,” writes Kimberly Strassel in The Wall Street Journal, “expect the usual finger-pointing from both sides. … Biden’s top agenda item is boosting organized labor—a payoff to the unions that spent big to propel him to victory. […]