How 'strike culture' took hold in the US in 2023

> Instead of the exception, labour shortages could become the norm.

They have already become the norm since COVID without labor activism. A lot of nurses haven't gone on strike, just left the profession. There aren't enough mental health practitioners or other medical specialists (and in my experience before COVID, waitlists for experienced providers were already 1-6 months, whether in private practice or in hospital systems). Several restaurants I've been to lately have had open tables but an hour-long wait to be served because there aren't enough wait staff or cooks.

Some of this is people burning out or switching to jobs with better pay and benefits. But millions of people are also disabled because of Long COVID: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-data-shows-long-covid...