This is pretty cool: A database of U.S. strike and protest activity that will report hundreds of labor actions across industries and geographic lines will be launched May 1 by the ILR School. The publ
On April 2, 1984, 17,000 workers walked off the job in Las Vegas, bringing America’s gaming paradise. The longest and most bitter strike in Las Vegas history, the casinos largely won, establishi
Last week, teachers in Cleveland Heights, Ohio walked off the job. They won their demands with a one-day strike. This mainstream media piece tells us very little about the issues, rather spending more
On October 14, 1840, proceedings began in Commonwealth v. Hunt, a critical early legal case that, two years later, established the right of workers to strike in the United States. Early American law b
The NBA is restarting today after the players’ brief strike in support of Jacob Blake. On the Twitter hellscape, there’s plenty of lefties who are unhappy about this, saying that the playe
I was happy to be interviewed for this Marketplace story on the athletes strike last night in protest of police brutality. The quote they used–that NBA billionaire owners could theoretically hav
The American Federation of Teachers has given its teachers permission to strike for their safety this fall. The head of a powerful national teachers union told members Tuesday that its leadership woul
Graduate students at UC-Santa Cruz have been engaging in a wildcat strike for some time now and it is coming to collision with the anti-union administration led, of course, by former Obama Cabinet app