In the US, 424 layoffs were recorded last year across seven industries. This is a significant increase from the previous year when 279 incidents were reported. This is according to a report by scientists at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
Why is this important?
There is clearly a growing activism among workers in the United States. Last year, 224,000 employees engaged in operations. This is a 60 percent increase over the previous year. Last year there were nearly 4.5 million strike days in the United States.Education: Especially education, health and social assistance, industry, retail and information It appeared according to the study It has been hit by a lot of strikes in the past year.
- The education sector represented 135,380 strikers. Plus, the sector represents 60 percent of all workers laid off in the U.S. in the past year.
- Johnnie Gallas, research director and an expert on labor relations at Cornell University, notes the actions of approximately 48,000 people in the University of California world.
- “But these measures reflect the continuing activity of primary and secondary school teachers,” Kallas argues.
Electricity: The largest number of strikes were organized in the housing and food sectors (144).
- This sector accounts for more than one-third of the total number of operations. However, only about three thousand workers were involved in those strikes.
- That represents just 3 percent of all workers who went on strike in the U.S. last year.
- Additionally, Callas argues, 91 percent of the housing and food service walkouts were led by employees of the Starbucks coffee chain and fast-food chain workers who campaigned for a $15 minimum wage.
- The researcher also notes that 46 percent of work disruptions last year lasted at least one day.
- It also found that 32 percent of the strikes were organized by non-union workers.
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