What's behind the surge in labor strikes?

Across the country, unions and workers have taken to the picket lines and negotiation tables to carve out better working conditions after a year of frontline work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet union membership remains low, critics say.

"Workers made all the sacrifice in the pandemic. They come to the employers and say they're being pushed, they asked for PPE, they do these other things. Employers say, ‘No, we can't afford it.’ And then they discover that their CEOs were making huge amounts of money," Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told Fox News. "You know, Bezos goes to the moon, but he can't afford to give his workers anything." 

One of the largest and most public strikes over the past several months has been the work stoppage and picket line formed by about 1,400 Kellogg’s members at the company’s four U.S.-based manufacturing plants.