More than nine million americans lost their jobs to the coronoviris and got no help from washington, according to a recent bloomburg business week review of federal and state unemployment benefits. Private sector union members are authorizing strikes at a rate rarely seen in modern AmeriCorps. The internet dubbed october hashtag, strike tober. Non union workers are voting with their feet as well, fueling a labor market reckoning that's come known as the great resignation.
This week's Cover Story for Bloomberg Businessweek: 'Workers Press for Power in Rare Advance for U.S. Labor Movement'
Read by Bloomberg's Mark Leydorf.
Along with the Great Resignation and #Striketober, jobless Americans are fighting for unemployment reform that could translate into lasting leverage
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