'Striketober' returns with vengeance
foxbusiness.comComodo Motors General Manager Jordan Baker joins «The Big Money Show» to discuss the impact on auto dealers and car buyers from the ongoing UAW strike.
A flurry of strikes by union workers across the U.S. in October 2021 led to the monthlong stretch of labor actions being dubbed «Striketober» that year, but in 2023, strike activity is even higher.
On Oct. 22, 2021, ABC News reported on the Striketober phenomenon that occurred amid a post-pandemic worker revolt from both union and non-union employees across industries during the Great Resignation, when a record number of Americans quit their jobs as they reevaluated their careers and demanded more from employers.
Citing Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations' tracker, the outlet reported that there had been 185 official union strikes at 255 locations at that point in 2021, with at least 40 of them occurring in October. The BBC reported on Striketober that year, too, saying some 100,000 workers were set to strike or had threatened to do so that month.
United Auto Workers members and supporters picket outside the Stellantis NV Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio on Sept. 22, 2023. The U.S. is seeing a reemergence of «Striketober» this year. (Emily Elconin / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
The original Striketober included strikes from 10,000 John Deere workers and around 32,000 Kaiser Permanente workers had voted that month to authorize a strike that was eventually averted. Another 60,000 Hollywood film workers were also poised to walk off the job by mid-October 2021.
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But now, barely into the second week of October 2023, this year's numbers are already markedly higher than
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