STANDING UP AND WALKING OUT.

• Date: 01 December 2021

The year 2021 was marked by an ongoing pandemic, an election, and a rightwing insurrection. 2021 will also be remembered as a moment when workers collectively stood up by walking out. While people have quit their jobs at such high rates that the trend is being called the Great Resignation, as of late October, at least 100,000 workers have also taken part in 178 strikes across the country.

Some workers, such as those with the United Mine Workers of America, have been on the picket line--in...