The Guardian: Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike?
EDITOR'S NOTE: See also: Jacobin: Workers at One of the Country’s Biggest Bourbon Producers Have Been on Strike for a Month
Across the country, people are refusing to return to backbreaking or mind-numbing low-wage jobs.
By ROBERT REICH
Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobs growth and fretted that “hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won’t be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about inflation.” For CNN, it was “another disappointment”. For Bloomberg the “September jobs report misses big for a second straight month”.
The media failed to report the big story, which is actually a very good one: American workers are now flexing their muscles for the first time in decades.