{"id":9110,"date":"2025-03-04T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:50:44","slug":"271500-workers-went-on-strike-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/271500-workers-went-on-strike-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"271,500 Workers Went On Strike Last Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/271500-workers-went-on-strike-in-2024-current-labor-law-doesnt-adequately-protect-workers-fundamental-right-to-strike\/?mc_cid=afe7ec214a&amp;mc_eid=c8fffb90d0\">271,500 went on strike last year<\/a>, looks at the basics of striking and the legal issues around a work action.\u00a0 Do you ever wonder why there are no more &#8220;Sit-Down&#8221; strikes.\u00a0 They are now illegal.\u00a0 \u00a0What can be done to restore workers rights during a strike.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Federal policy solutions<\/h2>\n<p>The 2024 BLS data on major work stoppages show that over 271,500 workers exercised the right to strike to pursue pay increases, better benefits, and safer working conditions. However, current labor law does not adequately protect workers\u2019 fundamental right to strike. The following are federal policies that would strengthen workers\u2019 right to engage in collective action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act includes critical reforms that would strengthen private-sector workers\u2019 right to strike. The PRO Act would expand the scope for strikes by eliminating the prohibition on secondary strikes and allowing the use of intermittent strikes. It would also strengthen workers\u2019 ability to strike by prohibiting employers from permanently replacing striking workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act would prevent employers from retaliating against striking workers by cutting off health coverage of workers and family members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/271500-workers-went-on-strike-last-year\/no-sitting\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9111\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/No-Sitting-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/No-Sitting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/No-Sitting-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/No-Sitting-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/No-Sitting.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>( photo by Foundry @ Pixabay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, 271,500 went on strike last year, looks at the basics of striking and the legal issues around a work action.\u00a0 Do you ever wonder why there are no more &#8220;Sit-Down&#8221; strikes.\u00a0 They are now illegal.\u00a0 \u00a0What can be done to restore workers rights during a strike.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[968,225,248],"class_list":["post-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-pro-act","tag-sit-down","tag-strike"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}