You've probably been hearing about the many places where American workers are trying to

unionize.

It's been happening at an Amazon warehouse in Bessimer, Alabama at Starbucks stores across

the country.

It's been happening among rideshare drivers, among graduate students in the Ivy League

and the University of California system.

It's been happening at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan and at the

New York Times.

We're most of the journalists were already in a labor union, but the tech workers weren't.

And you might remember what happened in October.

Thousands of American workers are on strike and thousands more are preparing to walk out

in what some have dubbed a strike tober.

Hollywood, John Deere, Kellogg's, even nurses are among the thousands on strike.

According to a strike tracker developed by researchers at Cornell, last year was unusually

busy with 370 strikes and nearly 700 labor protests.

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.

For all the recent talk about labor shortages and desperate firms offering employee bonuses,

the bigger trend for the past few decades has been wage stagnation.

When you account for inflation, even before the recent spike, the purchasing power of an

average wage is lower now than it was in the 1970s.

So yeah, given these circumstances and all the news about unionizing at Starbucks and

Amazon in the New York Times, you might think we're living in a new golden age of organized

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