The COVID-19 Crisis Is Likely to Increase Worker Activism and Union Organizing: What Employers Need to Know

After decades of steady decline in union activity, the number and magnitude of strikes in the United States increased sharply in both 2018 and 2019, rising to their highest levels since the early 1980s.

Relatively successful job actions by teachers across the country and by workers at General Motors, Stop & Shop, National Grid and several hospitals had leaders of organized labor excited about the first real resurgence in worker activism in a generation.