Amidst a tight labor market, unions are striking, and seeing successes across the country, despite a historically low rate of unionization in the US labor force.
NEW YORK — Once again, U.S. labor unions are flexing their muscles in the national spotlight. In Hollywood , the actors union reached a tentative deal with major studios late Wednesday to end a months-long strike. Las Vegas hotel workers also scored breakthough agreements with Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International this week — and last month, United Auto Workers celebrated victories on many of key demands that led to its six-week waves of walkouts against the Detroit Three .
Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of workers have participated in strikes this year. Labor activism has surged in tandem with soaring costs of living and rising inequality, particularly the growing pay gap between workers and top executives. Those inequities only became more glaring during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as some large coporations raked in record profits during sky-high inflation.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 granted private-sector employees the right to unionize. A 1961 executive order from President John F. Kennedy allowed federal employees to organize. That came around the same era that states also began to pass labor laws for their own public workers. Some states in the South and lower Midwest 'will allow police and firefighters to collectively bargain, but not state employees.
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