Judith Stepan-Norris, an emerita professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, told VOA there are multiple factors that appear to be animating the movement in 2023. … “Other workers are looking around and seeing that these strikes are starting to show some progress for people, and so other workers are getting a taste that they can do it, too,” she said. “Not to say that any of these new strikes are directly related to that — it's just sort of the atmosphere [of success] that surrounds them.”

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