Our Project
Welcome to the Cornell-ILR Labor Action Tracker. The goal of our project is to provide a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the United States in order to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and scholars. We would like to especially thank and acknowledge the ILR School for generous funding to support our project. We also thank the staff at China Labour Bulletin for inspiring and encouraging us to develop the labor action tracker.
We began documenting strikes in late-2020 and labor protests in early-2021. Our database of strikes is most accurate as of 2021. We have a relatively high degree of confidence in our ability to comprehensively capture strike activity. Due to the high number of labor protests across the United States, we aim to provide a general understanding of labor protest activity rather than achieve a complete count. Please note that our map generates the total number of strike and/or labor protest locations, which is more than the total number of individual strikes and/or protests (e.g. a single strike at five locations will appear five times on our map). Information we gather is from public sources and manually inputted into our tracker. Please see our methodology document for a more detailed description of our definitions, protocols, and variables. Follow us on twitter @ILRLaborAction to keep up to date with our project!
For any questions, or to access a spreadsheet version of our project's data, please email Johnnie Kallas at jsk374@cornell.edu.
Current Project Members

Johnnie Kallas

Eli Friedman

Deepa Kylasam Iyer

Kathryn Ritchie

Xinying Zou

Tara Gideon

Jasmine Fernandez

Carla Gaveglia
Former Project Members
Dana Trentalange

Leo Grageda

Angela Bunay

Victor Rieman
