Nearly half of the 140,000 who went on strike in 2021 work in health care
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Last year, approximately 140,000 workers went on strike, and about half were employed in the healthcare sector, according to a new "Labor Action Tracker" report by Cornell's School of International Labor Relations (ILR).
Across the country, hospital employees spearheaded some of the more significant strikes of the year: in California tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses and other hospital workers joined picket lines to show solidarity for operating engineers demanding better pay, and in Massachusetts, around 700 nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital held the line for around 10 months, the longest strike of the year.
Social worker Joyce Klein helped lead an 18-day strike of more than a thousand unionized hospital workers in Chicago's Cook County that ended in a pay raise, and she expects a lot more organizing in her industry.
