ANALYSIS: ‘Striketober'-Fueled Q4 Capped Huge Year for Walkouts

Set off by a spate of high-profile October walkouts, the fourth quarter of 2021 finished as the busiest quarter on U.S. picket lines in more than a decade. But even though “Striketober”—as the month was widely dubbed—is over, labor relations attorneys would do well to see it not as a one-time phenomenon, but as the continuation of a trend of unrest that’s been building since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and global economic downturn. And it shows no sign of slowing down.

Bloomberg Law’s labor data show that labor unions initiated 58 strikes in the final three months ...