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But the activism comes at a time when approval of labor unions—even among Republicans—is trending upwards—and when a low unemployment rate is giving leverage to workers who have long put up with poor conditions and pay. Teachers in states like Arizona and Oklahoma started striking in because of low pay and a lack of public funding. The year saw 25 work stoppages involving 1, or more workers, the most since The pandemic worsened working conditions for thousands of workers like Deyo.

Kellogg workers at a plant in Battle Creek, Mich. They went on strike on Oct. They went on strike on Sept. The company says it has not proposed moving any jobs from the Ready to Eat Cereal plants, which are the plants where the workers are striking, as part of negotiations. The hospital has done research and decided its staffing is appropriate, and that its staffing ratios are in fact better than most other hospitals in the state, she says.

Ryan says the hospital announced it was hiring permanent replacement nurses in May during a COVID surge, and that the striking nurses are insisting on getting their old positions back.

That the hospital is not budging speaks to the fact that despite this increase in worker activism, workers may not gain much more power in the long run. Over the last 40 years, the government has made it much more difficult for workers to both form unions and to strike, says Heidi Shierholz, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank.

Amazon was able to effectively interfere in a union vote among its workers this spring, she says, preventing the union from succeeding. Of course, a hearing officer at the National Labor Relations Board has recommended that the board throw out the results of the Amazon election and do it over, which speaks to a resurgence of government support for labor.

India today rejected media reports suggesting that the US was in touch with it to explore the option of carrying out ''over-the-horizon'' counter-terror strikes in Afghanistan. Students of Visva Bharati, who are staging a sit-in over rustication of three peers, began a relay hunger hunger strike today after putting up a flower bouquet at the main entrance of Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty's residence on Teachers' Day.

Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws held a mega meeting at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, today, where they reiterated their resolve to continue with the protest.

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