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Strikes Are Sweeping the Labor Market as Workers Weld New Leverage
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 Oct. 18, 2021 | ECONOMY | Marcial Reyes could have just quit his job. Frustrated with chronic understaffing at the Kaiser Permanente hospital where he works in Southern California, he knows he has options in a region desperate for nurses. Instead, he voted to go on strike. While Americans are leaving their jobs at staggering rates — a record 4.3 million quit in August alone — hundreds of thousands of workers with similar grievances about wages, benefits and quality of life are, like Reyes, choosing to dig in and fight….All told, there have been strikes against 178 employers this year… Washington Post
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