The United Auto Workers (UAW) in the University of California sent 48,000 workers to the picket lines in November 2022.[1] Post-docs, graduate researchers, and academic student employees across University of California colleges stopped working to advocate for higher wages to keep up with the increasing cost of living in California.
This was one of the largest strikes in recent history. The last work stoppage that involved this scale of employees was the teacher strikes during the Red for Ed movement in North Carolina in 2019. And while there has been a recent uptick in teacher strikes, the number of overall strikes in the US has declined
