Let’s recognize the workers who made bold contract demands and reshaped the labor landscape in 2023.
Hi John,
In 2023, nearly half a million workers including teachers, baristas, nurses, actors, and auto workers went on strike and WON.
Workers walked out this year in efforts to increase wages, improve working conditions, and stand up for themselves. Their historic gains underscore the resurgence of the U.S. labor movement.
Reform movements this year led to bolder contract demands, finally putting workers ahead of outdated company rules and corporate greed.
Strikes this year doubled compared to 2022, and union popularity hasn’t been this high since the 1960s. Not only were there more strikes, they led to historic companywide and industrywide collective bargaining victories with some of the largest and most powerful corporations.
As legendary labor organizer Walter Reuther put it, “power is the ability of a labor union like UAW to make the most powerful corporation in the world -— General Motors — say yes when it wants to say no.”
Herb Jones is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Use of Herb’s military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
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