2021–22 United States strike wave

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The 2021 strike wave or Striketober[1][2] refers to a series of labor strikes in the United States of America, which is indicative of a heightened sense of class consciousness inside the imperialist west.[3][4] This class consciousness could very well be due to the high inflation rates in 2021.[5]

Nearly 100,000 workers are involved in these strikes.[1] These demands for better conditions, while not centrally organized by a revolutionary party, could indeed lay the early basis for the establishment of proletarian power over the bourgeois dictatorship of the United States.

2021 Strikes
Strike Est. number of workers involved Start date Strike Fund links Specific cause Outcome
2021 John Deere strike 10,000 factory workers October 13, 2021[6]
2021 Kellogg's strike 1,400 factory workers October 5, 2021
2021 Nabisco strike unknown number of factory workers August 10, 2021
2021 Spectrum strike[7][8] 18,000 electrical workers
2021 Warrior Met Coal Mine strike 1,100
2021 St. Vincent's Nurse strike 800 nurses
2021 Sunrise Northeast Inc. caregivers strike unknown number of caregivers
2021 Redbank Valley School District strike unknown number of teachers
2021 Heaven Hill 420 distillery workers
2021 Reno Bus Drivers Strike
2021 IATSE strike[9] 60,000 film and television workers October 18, 2021
2022 strike wave
Strike Estimated number of workers involved Start date Specific cause
University of California academic workers' strike 48,000 academic workers[10] November 2022 Higher wages and better working conditions.

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