670 protestsabout labor & work in the last 12 months
The research record (Crowd Counting Consortium) runs through May 31, 2026; it's published a few months after the fact. Protests since then come from organizers' public listings on Mobilize and community reports, which are less complete and lean toward groups that use Mobilize. About the data
- Protests
- 670About 13 a week
- People who turned out
- 9,609–11k Sum of crowd estimates for the 124 protests that have one
- States & territories
- 44 Most in Ohio (56)
- Most protested issue
- Unions & strikes Main issue at 450 protests
Week by week
Protests per week, colored by the main issue. Spikes are national days of action.
- Labor & work
What people protest
Protests per issue. A protest with several demands counts toward each.
Who protests what
Share of each issue's protests whose claims were coded left- or right-leaning, from most left to most right. Lean describes the demands, never the people.
- Left-leaning
- Neither or mixed
- Right-leaning
Where
Who they target
The agency, company, official or body each protest's demands were aimed at.
Most active organizers
Groups listed as organizers, by number of protests in this view.
| Organization | Relative activity | Protests |
|---|---|---|
| AFL-CIO |
43 | |
| Starbucks Workers United |
35 | |
| American Federation of Government Employees |
32 | |
| Indivisible Central Ohio |
31 | |
| Iowa AFL-CIO |
29 | |
| Indivisible Northampton-Swing Left Western MA |
22 | |
| Justice for the Marlin Dogs |
22 | |
| Montana AFL-CIO |
19 | |
| Woodburn-Hubbard-Aurora Indivisible |
19 | |
| Indivisible |
18 |
How it went, from people who were there
No firsthand reports for these protests yet. When people who were there add a report, how it went (tone, police presence, arrests) shows up here.