CHART: Labor Strikes Become Rare As Employers Gain The Upper Hand

CHART: Labor Strikes Become Rare As Employers Gain The Upper Hand: According to an analysis of Current Population Survey data by Matt Bruenig, the number of workers exercising their right to strike has plummeted since the 1970s: Forty years, ago, “an average of 289 major work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers occurred annually in the United States. By the 1990s, that had fallen to about [...]/p