From USATODAY:
According to annual tracking by the U.S. Labor Department, 2009 saw just five major strikes or work stoppages involving 1,000 or more employees — the fewest since the agency began tracking such data in 1947…
Strikes at smaller companies have seen the same decline, said Thomas Kochan, the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-director of its Institute for Work and Employment Research…
“The strike has lost its utility as a way of improving wages and working conditions and become at best a defensive strategy,” Kochan said. “(Strikers) are fighting to avoid deeper cuts. Workers are afraid of losing their jobs.” …
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