When some 33,000 Boeing machinists walked out of their airplane assembly factories in Seattle in September 2024, it was one of the largest strikes of the year. But it was also just one labor action that contributed to more than 5 million strike days across the country. Though the labor movement’s wave of landmark strikes ebbed slightly compared to 2023, there was still a surge of action in 2024 that resulted in 359 work stoppages, involving more than 290,000 workers. Those numbers come from the ILR-LER Labor Action Tracker, a joint project involving labor researchers at both Cornell University and the University of Illinois. That project began tracking strikes in late 2020 and into 2021, cataloging how the labor movement has gained traction since the pandemic. Last year, the tracker’s report on 2023 highlighted a significant boom: 539,000 workers who went on strike that year—a 141% increase compared to 2022—and were involved in 470 work stoppages, totaling a whopping 24,874,522 days of strikes. Learn more: https://bit.ly/434SGuj