Q&A: Johnnie Kallas of Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker on the labor beat in 2024
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Last year was a huge one for organized labor in the United States. Across four hundred and thirty-five individual actions, approximately half a million workers—a share of Americans roughly the size of Wyoming—went on strike. Labor was a defining story of the year (even if many of these individual actions flew under the radar of national media). Between the visibility and scale of the Hollywood actors’ walkout, autoworkers’ ultimately successful rolling work stoppages, and the sight of a serving US president on a picket line, “2023 Was the Year of the Strike—and Big Victories,” the Wall Street Journal noted in December. Labor Notes, a media and organizing project run by union members themselves, offered a similar summary: “Big Strikes, Bigger Gains.”
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