More than 492,000 workers – including nurses, actors, screenwriters, autoworkers, hotel cleaners, teachers and restaurant servers – walked off their jobs during the first 10 months of 2023 . That includes about 46,000 autoworkers who went on strike for about six weeks, starting in mid-September. The United Auto Workers union won historic gains that have the potential to transform the industry in its contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis – the company that includes Chrysler. In addition, more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers took part in the largest strike of U.S. health care workers to date. This crescendo of…
