Though almost none of them happened in Louisiana, there were 374 worker strikes in 2022—a 39% increase over 2021, according to a database run by Cornell. Fueled partly by anger over working conditions during the pandemic and spurred on by other labor wins, all sorts of workers—warehouse employees, teachers, nurses, graduate students, journalists—walked off the
US worker strikes surged 39% during 2022
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