Public sector employees are prohibited from striking, so they will sometimes call out en masse citing sickness - called catching the “blue flu” (named for police departments that would call out sick to put pressure on cities during collective bargaining). abcnews.go.com/US/delays-sa...

Significant strike drop for Aug 25 - only 15,000 days not worked in 18 strikes by 4,000 workers. Because workers were on holiday? More likely reflects absence of no resident doctors' strikes as were in July (when 83,000 days not worked in 225 strikes by 26,000 workers).

Job cuts at TikTok came eight days before workers were due to vote on union recognition. UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth

Great to hear @profsavage.bsky.social present his work with Alison Braley-Rattai on the constitutional right to strike in Canada at ILERA

Looking forward to catching up with colleagues at the ILERA European Congress this week in Durham!

Susanne Bruyère has led a team of researchers at @cornellyti.bsky.social who study barriers to employment for neurodivergent people. But in May, funding for their project was cut. "I think that's a step backwards for a very capable group of potential workers in the American workforce," said Bruyère.

Great to speak at the @gftu.org.uk summer school today about the 22-23 strike wave

Session 2, lessons from the 2022/2023 strike wave 🌊 Led by Andy Hodder, University of Birmingham and Stephen Mustchin, University of Manchester. #SummerSchool #GFTU #GFTUET #TUed #Workers #Unions #Organising

Join us in Manchester for the 2025 Work, Employment and Society Conference. Deadline for registration Friday, 8 August 2025. Details can be found below. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Today marks the start of strike action for resident doctors in England. These strikes could have been averted, if @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social had a credible offer for us to consider. 🪧 Find your nearest picket: bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines #PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike

Resident doctors begin five days of strikes in England over pay – UK politics live

A **win** for Oscar Mayer workers. Fire and rehire needs to be tackled politically but in the meantime can be fought industrially. There was no union recognised at this site previously, now there is one. Bargaining unit of around 500. www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

Looking for summer reading? 🏖️📚 Explore the inspiring landscape of policies that build worker power at the state and local levels with our toolkit, Building Worker Power in Cities and States! ⬇️ #workerpower clje.law.harvard.edu/publication/...

I've been anxious to talk about this because it feels so selfish, but time to move past that. I have a book coming out! "Who's Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions", comes out October 14th from The New Press. It's an optimistic book for perilous times. 1/

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada www.readthemaple.com/uber-drivers... #canlab #Uber

Our 2025-2026 education programme is L I V E 🔴 👋 Look out for our team at today’s Gala. ✊ Be a part of our biggest programme to date, register today - gftuet.org.uk/education #GFTUET

The American Time Use Survey is up for renewal, or cancellation. OMB is gathering input on the data's importance. @ipums.bsky.social organized a rapid response briefing to equip us with tools to effectively comment. #EconSky #sociology #policysky Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🔴At least five workers have died in Spain already this summer after working in extreme heat Trade unions are calling again on the European Commission to deliver a directive on maximum working temperatures 📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

This may be of interest. Some of us have delved into the need for trade unions to engage with cooperatives more systematically. More dialogue is needed. ‘Co-operatives and Trade Unions Generating alliances for better and more meaningful work’ pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Finally back home from the @buiraonline.bsky.social conference. Great to catch up with friends old and new and present comparative work on strike datasets. I'm also very pleased be elected to BUIRA's Executive Committee for the next three years. Thanks to the Bristol team for a great conference!

Great new book review of Richard Hyman’s latest text on employment relations, from Manuela Galetto (IRRU, Warwick). Published in the Industrial Relations Journal. doi.org/10.1111/irj....

This is a really great paper examining the link between strikes and union membership. Hat tip to @ralphdarlington.bsky.social for telling me about it last night!

🚀 Launch: International Strike Report 2023 📅 14 June 2025 | 🕒 15:00 (London time) 11 countries. 1 collaborative report on global strike trends. Join the launch event for key findings + open discussion. 🔗 Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Shoutout to all the wonderful researchers from China @chinalabour.bsky.social , Italy‪ @bigmacca.bsky.social , UK @hodderandy.bsky.social and others who have contributed their work to this project!

🎉Today, our team based in the United States along with Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Italy, South Africa, Türkiye, UK and Uruguay have brought together data on strikes in 2023 to publish the International Strike Report (2023)! emekcalisma.org/wp-content/u...

Great to be part of this collection documenting strike activity around the world in 2023!

- Published: International strike report 2023 featuring Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Italy, South Africa, Türkiye, UK, US & Uruguay @etui.bsky.social #WorkerSolidarity #CollectiveAction #LaborRights - Read it here: emekcalisma.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 Exciting new research in Human Resource Management! In this article, my coauthor Tashlin Lakhani and I explore strategic human resource management in the gig economy. 🚗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/hrm....

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

JUST IN 🚨| Our annual report 2024, looking at our 2023 strike data has been spotted in Santiago 🇨🇱. 📜Read the excellent report written by Andy Hodder (Uni Bham) and Stephen Mustchin (Uni Manchester) in full here: bit.ly/SMReport2024 #StrikeMap #StrikeData

Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...

Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in @gpejournal.bsky.social Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Register soon for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, being held at the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University May 28-30, 2025. CAWLS members get discounted rates! cawls.ca/en/2025-annu... #canlab #labourstudies

Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...

Some great new research on strikes is being published these days. This latest article by @johnniekallas.bsky.social outlines how how workers organize different types of strikes in the US onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to this

Join us Jan 21 @ 2:30pm ET for "Tracking the Global Upsurge in Workers' Strikes. Experts from Canada, the US, the UK & Quebec discuss challenges with official strike data and share innovative ways to track worker action and resistance. Register 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #canlab #strikes

Though it’s been well over 2 years since the first Amazon warehouse union was formed in New York City, and workers at several other warehouses across the country have started to unionize, the company has refused to recognize and negotiate a contract with the union.

Why are Amazon workers on strike – and what does it mean for Christmas deliveries? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Federal government moves to end Canada Post strike. What happens next? Commentary from me, @stephross.bsky.social & @thelawofwork.bsky.social. www.thestar.com/business/fed... #canlab #cdnpoli

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Very proud to have designed this report for @strikemap.bsky.social. It's a really good insight into the strike wave via the data we collated on the map during that period. The authors have done a great job of pulling it together.

We’re really pleased to have written this report. Thanks to @redhen90.bsky.social and @robbmonster.bsky.social for access to the data. The fantastic graphics and design is thanks to @tomgreenwood.bsky.social

🚀 Launched today 🚀 Our first ever report into the data we have collected. Strike Map data shows 170,000 workplaces took strike action in 2023. Download our full report here: bit.ly/SMReport2024 #StrikeMap

Huge applause here as the Workers Observatory launches in December! 🎉 Come along if you're in Edinburgh and interested in helping to set an agenda for future research or simply learning more about gig work in the city: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gig-work-i...

Hi Bluesky👋 We are a database of labor strikes and protests in the US, with comprehensive data on strikes since 2021. We'll be posting strike-related news and our monthly and annual reports. See you at the picket line✊