Kaiser Permanente labor deal shows why short, disruptive strikes are becoming more common (CNN)

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By Chris Isidore, CNN

Americans often think of a strike as starting with workers walking out and not returning to work until there’s a deal, sometimes weeks or months later. That’s the way it has worked with the ongoing United Auto Workers Union strike at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, or the strikes against Hollywood studios by the Writers Guild, which ended only when a tentative deal was reached, or the SAG-AFTRA strike, which has 160,000 actors continuing to strike the same studios.

But the short duration strike, which starts with an end date already scheduled, is becoming a more frequent tool of US labor unions.

So far this year, there have been 196 strikes lasting a week or less, according to a work stoppage database kept by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Many, although not all, started with an end time already known. That’s up 86% from the number of short strikes in the same period of 2021.

There have been only 98 strikes lasting more than a week so far this year, or half the number of short strikes, a more modest 20% increase from 2021.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/15/business/strikes-kaiser-permanente-deal-short/index.html

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Interesting strategy. I was on the board of my local and I wonder if we would have agreed to something like this. Glad it worked out for Kaiser, though.

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1. American unions are finally learning the value of a "warning strike" ...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnstreik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_warning_strike_in_Poland

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2. And I'm glad to see it.

The rise again of unions is another thing we can thank Joe Biden for. And another reason to re-elect him.