from thefreeonline by Mariana Sanches , BBC Brasil

Why auto workers are asking for a 46% pay raise : NPR 4 days ago September 7, 2023 .. A wave of labor unrest this summer has shown that workers are ready to go on strike when companies refuse to meet their union’s demands.
Actors recently joined Hollywood screenwriters to protest unequal conditions in the industry.

The Hollywood strike is the most obvious (and glamorous) face of a union movement that has been gaining strength in the US, and which this summer has produced the largest number of workers willing to fold their arms in the country in recent years. 50 years.
Among screenwriters, actors and unionized Hollywood workers, nearly 175,000 people have joined the strike since mid-July, even refraining from promoting the two biggest films of the moment, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
On the other hand, the 340,000 employees of the American postal company UPS were close to declaring a total strike on August 1, which could be avoided thanks to a preliminary labor agreement.

Estimates prior to the agreement had established that just ten days of interruption in services would have cost UPS nearly US$7 billion.
According to an analysis by Cornell University’s labor relations school, as of early August, there were 900 strikes underway in the US – more than 300 of them in California, the state responsible for 15% of the nation’s GDP. .
Companies as large as Amazon and Starbucks have begun to see the emergence of union movements in their workforces.
The trend had already been recorded in 2022. A February study by the Economic Policy Institute think tank reported an increase of almost 50% in the number of workers involved in large strikes between 2021 and last year.
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In 2023, a similar jump should be recorded. While the country reported 23 large mobilizations in 2021 (with at least a few thousand employees), 2023 has so far reported 44 strikes with the same profile.
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