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Johnnie Kallas: We began the Labor Action Tracker in early 2021 because strike activity has been historically underreported in the country. We started this project to create a more comprehensive database of strikes across the country.
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Johnnie Kallas: I think there has been an uptick in labor uprising since 2018, beginning with the teachers' strikes. Our strike data from 2021 is considerably smaller than what we saw in the 1970's, but conditions were different back then.
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Johnnie Kallas: Workers are very frustrating with their jobs, but they're choosing a very individual way of dealing with it, and that's by quitting. [The Great Resignation]
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Johnnie Kallas: The Labor laws we have do not fit with the current workplaces & the way people work. They've been outdated for years.
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Johnnie Kallas: There's a union recognition strike going on in Detroit at a smaller coffee chain by Unite Here. Those types of strikes are not as common as they were in the 1930s.
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Johnnie Kallas: Pres. Biden has an incredibly pro-Labor agenda but it won't pass in the current Congress. The Wagner Act didn't come in because generous politicians gave it to workers; it came about because of an incredible movement by workers.
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Johnnie Kallas: I look at the case of the brave St. Vincent nurses who were on strike from March. They overcame so many obstacles to strike & to defend their union & to stand up to replacement workers & to fight to get their jobs back.
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Johnnie Kallas: We did note a tick up in strikes in October--#Striketober--and again in November as was mentioned in the media.
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Johnnie Kallas is a co-author of the Labor Action Tracker Annual Report 2021; take a look at it here:
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