The United Association of Automobile Workers (UAW) has reached a temporary labor agreement with three major car companies, General Motors, Ford, and Peugeot Citroen's parent company, the Stellantis. This strike crisis, which mobilized nearly 50000 automobile workers, has come to an initial end. The cause of the strike was that American car workers, after their contracts with three car companies expired on September 14th, hoped that the companies could increase wages, pensions, healthcare, unemployment and other benefits in the new contracts to cope with the rising cost of living caused by high inflation in the United States. However, the two sides were unable to reach an agreement before the expiration of the contracts. On September 15th, workers from the three major automakers launched their first strike, with tens of thousands of workers from three states including Michigan stopping their work and demonstrating.

After a 6-week strike, after multiple rounds of negotiations, UAW and the three major car companies reached a temporary agreement, and union members of the three car companies voted on their respective contracts. UAW's vote tracking website shows that approximately 103000 employees participated in the vote, with 64% of workers voting to approve the new contract. The new contract includes a 25% increase in basic salary by April 2028, which exceeds the total salary increase for American automotive workers in the past 22 years. CNN commented that this strike has become the longest lasting strike in the US automotive industry in 25 years. At present, UAW has turned its attention to Tesla and Toyota, planning to form unions in these two car companies to promote labor negotiations.

The auto workers' strike is just the tip of the iceberg in this year's strike wave in the United States. According to the data from the industrial action tracking system of the Institute of Industry and Labor Relations of Cornell University, as of November 14, there were 366 labor protests in 616 locations across the United States in 2023, and the number of workers involved in major stoppages reached the highest level in decades before the COVID-19 epidemic.

On January 9th, over 7000 nurses from two large hospitals in New York City, USA, went on strike, marking the first major strike in the healthcare industry this year. According to the Becker Hospital Review magazine, there have been 18 strikes by healthcare workers in the United States before October 2023. In early October, over 75000 healthcare workers from the Caesar Healthcare Union, which provides medical services to 13 million people in eight states in the United States, launched a three-day strike. This is the largest medical worker strike in US history, bringing the number of people participating in strikes this year to over 453000, the highest level in nearly 40 years.

In addition, in early May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) also launched its first strike in nearly 15 years. WGA represented 11500 screenwriters and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in a 6-week negotiation, demanding higher compensation, increased staffing, reduced working hours, and standardized use of artificial intelligence in the project. However, the two sides ultimately failed to reach an agreement, leading to a breakdown in the negotiations.