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Throughout 2023, U.S. labor unions achieved gains and made headlines. This past summer, members of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ unions, went on strike for over four months, leading to new agreements for both unions with studios and producers for increased residuals, increased compensation, and protections against exploitive use of their creative output in artificial intelligence. In August, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiated a pay increase for UPS workers, and, in October, after a six-week strike, the United Auto Workers secured an increase in workers’ wages and reinstated cost-of-living adjustments at automobile
