About Us | ILR Labor Action Tracker 

 Labor Action Tracker 

 About Us

 Our Project

 Welcome to the Labor Action Tracker, a collaboration between Cornell University's ILR School and the
 University of Illinois' LER School. The Tracker provides a comprehensive database of strike and labor
 protest
 activity across the United States to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and
 scholars. Our project originated at the ILR School in late 2020 and went public on May 1, 2021, as the
 Cornell
 ILR Labor Action Tracker thanks to generous funding from the ILR School. In January 2024, the Tracker became
 a
 collaborative effort between Cornell ILR and Illinois LER and was rebranded the Labor Action Tracker. We
 also
 thank the staff of the China Labour Bulletin for inspiring and encouraging
 us to develop this project.

 We began documenting strikes in late-2020 and labor protests in early-2021. Our database of strikes is most
 accurate as of 2021. We have a relatively high degree of confidence in our ability to comprehensively
 capture
 strike activity. Due to the high number of labor protests across the United States, we aim to provide a
 general understanding of labor protest activity rather than achieve a complete count. Please note that our
 map
 generates the total number of strike and/or labor protest locations, which is more than the total number of
 individual strikes and/or protests (e.g. a single strike at five locations will appear five times on our
 map).
 Information we gather is from public sources and manually inputted into our tracker. Please see our
 methodology document for a more detailed description of our definitions, protocols, and variables. Follow us
 on twitter @ILRLaborAction to keep up to
 date
 with our project!

 For any questions, or to access a spreadsheet version of our project's data, please email Johnnie Kallas at
 jkallas@illinois.edu .

 Current Project Members

 Johnnie Kallas

 Project Director

 Johnnie Kallas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment
 Relations
 at the University of Illinois. He received his PhD from Cornell University's ILR School. His research
 focuses on strikes and labor militancy in the United States, with a special interest in healthcare.

 Eli Friedman

 Faculty Advisor

 Eli Friedman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International
 and Comparative Labor at Cornell University's ILR School. His research focus is on labor politics,
 labor migration, and urbanization in China.

 Deepa Kylasam Iyer

 Project Coordinator

 Deepa Kylasam Iyer is a PhD student at the Department of International and Comparative
 Labor at Cornell University's ILR School. Her research focuses on how technology changes the workplace and
 emerging worker responses in the context of platform-based work.

 Anh Dao Truc Lam

 Graduate Research Assistant

 Anh Dao Truc Lam is a PhD student at the school of Labor and Employment Relations at 
 the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on labor relations in public education
 in the United States.

 Dylan Bogash

 Graduate Research Assistant

 Dylan Bogash is an MHRIR student at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at UIUC. 
 She joined the Labor Action Tracker in August 2025, collecting data on strike outcomes. Her research interests
 center on deathcare labor and the ways workers build collective power in care-based industries. She plans to 
 pursue a PhD and work in the labor movement after graduation.

 Luke O'Brien

 Research Assistant

 Luke O'Brien (BSILR '27) has worked on the Labor Action Tracker since May 2024,
 assisting with finding and classifying strike data. Luke has previously worked in restaurants and public
 service and plans to work as an organizer after graduation.

 Adriana Vink

 Research Assistant

 Adriana Vink (BSILR ’27) has worked on the Labor Action Tracker since August 2026,
 assisting with finding and classifying protest data. Adriana has previously worked in organizing and
 research, including through the American Federation of Teachers. She plans to work in the labor movement
 after graduation.

 Patrick Honerkamp

 Research Assistant

 Paxton Honerkamp (BSILR ‘28) has worked on the Labor Action Tracker since August of
 2026, identifying, sourcing, and logging data on labor protests across the United States. Paxton has
 contributed editorial work to CNBC, covering issues at the intersection of labor, business, public policy,
 and emerging technologies. His interests center around labor and employment law and the impact it has had
 on workers in the midst of economic evolution.

 Former Project Members

 Kathryn Ritchie

 Senior Research Assistant & Social Media Strategist

 Kathryn Ritchie (BSILR '24) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August
 2021, assisting with finding and classifying strike and protest data, project communications and social
 media presence, and team coordination. Kathryn has previously interned with Giffords and is planning on
 working in the labor movement as a representative or researcher.

 Angela Bunay

 Research Assistant

 Angela Bunay (BSILR '24) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August
 2021, assisting with finding and classifying strike and protest data. Angela was previously a research
 intern with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and is planning on working in the labor
 movement as an organizer or working as a labor journalist.

 Jasmine Fernandez

 Research Assistant

 Jasmine Fernandez (BSILR '23) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August
 2022, identifying and logging protest data. Jasmine was previously a research assistant with UNI Global
 and a Union Scholar with AFSCME and plans on working in the labor movement after graduation.

 Carla Gaveglia

 Research Assistant

 Carla Gaveglia (BSILR '24) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August
 2022, assisting with finding and classifying protest data. Carla was previously a research intern with the
 United Federation of Teachers and is planning on pursuing a career in public relations and marketing.

 Tara Gideon

 Research Assistant

 Tara Gideon (BSILR '23) has worked on the ILR Action Tracker since August 2021,
 assisting with finding and classifying protest data. Tara has previously worked in the service
 industry and is planning on pursuing a career in human resources after her graduation.

 Leo Grageda

 Research Assistant

 Leo Grageda (MILR '22) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since May 2021,
 assisting with finding and classifying strike and protest data. Leo has previously interned with the
 Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the US Department of Labor and is planning on working in the
 labor movement after attending law school.

 Lily Mackey

 Research Assistant

 Lily Mackey (BSILR '24) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August 2023,
 assisting with finding and classifying protest data. Lily has previously interned in the labor movement
 for
 the Pennsylvania State Education Association and Doctors Council SEIU and plans to work in a union as an
 organizer or representative after graduation.

 Ankit Mehta

 Research Assistant

 Ankit Mehta (Johnson Cornell Tech MBA '21) has worked on the ILR Labor Action
 Tracker since December 2020, building a logging and visualization system for labor actions happening
 across the United States.

 Victor Rieman

 Research Assistant

 Victor Rieman (BSILR '21) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since October
 2020, assisting with finding and classifying strike and protest data, as well as helping to develop a
 system of verification protocols. Victor has previously interned with SEIU 1199 and is planning on
 working in the labor movement as a researcher or representative.

 Dana Trentalange

 Social Media Strategist & Project Coordinator 

 Dana Trentalange (MILR '21) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker from day
 one, assisting the team with the data collection process and project coordination. Informed by her
 time as an organizer with CNA/NNU, she specializes in social media management and content creation for
 unions and progressive organizations.

 Xinying Zou

 Graduate Research Assistant

 Xinying Zou (MLA '23) has worked on the ILR Action Tracker since September 2022,
 assisting with finding and classifying strike data. Xinying is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology
 related to employment after her graduation.

 Mackenzie Schabowski

 Research Assistant & Social Media Lead

 Mackenzie Schabowski is an MHRIR student at the school of Labor and Employment
 Relations
 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined the Labor Action Tracker in August, 2024,
 identifying and logging strike outcomes. Her current research interest is mapping the impact of Post-Roe
 legislation on the career trajectories of college-educated women in the U.S. 

 Henry Han

 Research Assistant

 Henry Han (BSILR '26) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August 2023,
 identifying and logging protest data. Henry previously researched agricultural policy while an intern at
 Congressman Seth Moulton's District Office and has a particular interest in the intersection of
 agriculture
 and labor.

 Shoshannah Odinyayeva

 Research Assistant

 Shoshannah Odinyayeva (BSILR '26) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since
 January 2024, identifying and logging protest data. Shoshannah has previously worked in the government
 sector focusing on legal research projects, and plans to pursue a career in law following graduation.

 Rachael Schweickert

 Research Assistant

 Rachael Schweickert has worked on the Labor Action Tracker since January 2025 and is a
 graduate student at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois (UIUC).
 Rachael currently works in career advising at UIUC and has previously worked in labor relations within the
 manufacturing industry.

 Ava Osorio

 Research Assistant

 Ava Osorio (BSILR'28) has worked on the Labor Action Tracker since September 2025,
 assisting with social media outreach, translations, and classifying protest data. Ava has previously
 interned with the United Farm Workers Union and plans to work within the labor movement after graduation.

 Hannah Shvets

 Research Assistant

 Hannah Shvets (BSILR '27) has worked on the ILR Labor Action Tracker since August
 2025,
 identifying and logging protest data. Hannah previously researched gig work at the Workers Institute and
 was a fellow for the Tompkins County Worker Center, running the Workers' Rights Hotline. After graduation,
 she plans to work in the labor movement.