World’s Key Workers Threaten to Hit Economy Where It Will Hurt

  • At chokepoints in supply chains, labor is flexing its muscle
  • Employees seek new deal as inflation eats pay, workloads surge
Truckers protest at the Port of Oakland in California, US, on July 18.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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The pandemic has put unprecedented strain on global supply chains -– and also on the workers who’ve kept those systems running under tough conditions. It looks like many of them have had enough.