From actors to autoworkers, more than 450,000 workers have participated in 312 strikes in the United States this year, according to Cornell University’s Labor Action Tracker.
Are all of these workers missing from the US government’s monthly jobs reports?
The report produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a product of two different surveys.
One asks a sample group of employers to report how many workers they employed, based on their payroll records for the pay period that includes the 12th of the month. Data from that survey is used to determine how many people were hired or laid off in a given month.
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