100,000 workers take action as 'Striketober' hits the US
100,000 workers take action as 'Striketober' hits the US
Oct 14, 2021 by BBC News - US & Canada
Key Facts
- Kellogg's Cereal plant workers are also protesting More than 100,000 US workers will strike, or have threatened to in October, as a wave of industrial action dubbed "Striketober" hits America.
- 10,000 Deere & Company workers based mainly in Iowa and Illinois walked out on Thursday, in what is the largest US strike since 2019.
- In addition, more than 24,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in California and Oregon voted on Monday to allow a strike, after pay negotiations with the private hospital group Kaiser Permanente stalled.
- 'PRO-UNION PRESIDENT' About a third of all US workers were in a union in the late 1960s, but that has declined over the decades because of anti-union laws and corporate crackdowns on organising.
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