Those are stoppages in large companies, not total strikes. As the economy becomes more service based strikes have become smaller and workplace-centred. Also because unions are shit many strikes in 2020 were wildcat and might not be recorded at all.
You just posted a bunch of anecdotes about wildcat strikes, which the article itself even mentions were also widespread during times of mass action! We don't have apples to apples comparisons other than large actions, and it's not like large actions replaced wildcat strikes in decades past - they complimented each other, or had different motivations in a lot of cases (radical Boomer kids at GM in the early 70s going on wildcat strikes over the nature of work vs more direct material concerns, for example)
It's a start, but the idea that labor power is anywhere near where it was even 25 years ago is completely bullshit. I don't think a lot of Leftists understand how completely mainstream the idea of a strike was even a generation ago. It wasn't considered revolutionary praxis, it was just a part of life.
Almost like something happened from 1941 to 1945 that made labor agitation go to zero.
Strike days are up a lot in the past 2 years, but they are still well below what an "average" year was even in the 80s.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/mobile/25-major-work-stoppages-in-2019-involving-425500-workers.htm
Those are stoppages in large companies, not total strikes. As the economy becomes more service based strikes have become smaller and workplace-centred. Also because unions are shit many strikes in 2020 were wildcat and might not be recorded at all.
https://redflag.org.au/node/7096
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/wave-of-1000-strikes-ripples-across-the-us-as-crisis-bites-20200929-p5606t.html
Also, I was referring to the late 40s, when a wave of strikes occurred due to post war austerity and economic rationalisation.
You just posted a bunch of anecdotes about wildcat strikes, which the article itself even mentions were also widespread during times of mass action! We don't have apples to apples comparisons other than large actions, and it's not like large actions replaced wildcat strikes in decades past - they complimented each other, or had different motivations in a lot of cases (radical Boomer kids at GM in the early 70s going on wildcat strikes over the nature of work vs more direct material concerns, for example)
It's a start, but the idea that labor power is anywhere near where it was even 25 years ago is completely bullshit. I don't think a lot of Leftists understand how completely mainstream the idea of a strike was even a generation ago. It wasn't considered revolutionary praxis, it was just a part of life.