In 2023, several significant strikes by auto manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, and customer service workers led to industry disruptions. This year hasn’t seen Shawn Fain shouting as frequently into a bullhorn. However, the UAW and Hollywood strikes carry lingering effects, and 2024 strikes have already been waged against an outdoor retailer, nursing homes, and a beer brewery.

Several potential strikes sit on the horizon. Let’s round them up along with a look backward from workers who hit the picket lines last year:

Disneyland could experience its first strike since 1984 when workers walked out for 22 days. Members of four unions—Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM)—authorized a strike after their contract expired on June 16. Talks will continue this week on the issues of wages and workplace safety.

Update on Disney on 7/24: A union coalition representing 14,000 Disneyland workers and the Company has tentatively agreed on a three-year deal.

East and Gulf Coast ports, coastwide, face an increasingly likely strike by dockworkers belonging to the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) with the current contract expiring on Sept. 30. That deadline coincides with the busiest shipping season of the year, and negotiations are paused with no further sessions scheduled.

Negotiations between Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) have become testy over agreeing to a no-strike clause. SBWU reportedly removed at least one member (Jake Compton) from the bargaining committee for protesting a no-strike clause

Boeing’s ongoing labor issues have been overlapping with their 737 MAX troubles. This month, 31,000 Seattle-area machinists, many of whom work on MAX jets, have authorized a strike by 99%, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). Their contract expires on September 12, and the union demands 40% pay raises and improved working conditions. Additionally, the union wants to avoid the 2014 negotiation results that led to frozen pensions.

More trouble in Hollywood is brewing, with Teamsters Local 399 and Hollywood Basic Crafts being the lone union holdouts for crew members after IATSE members ratified a new contract last week. Five weeks remain for the Teamsters’ current contract, which covers about 8,000 workers and is set to expire on July 31. If negotiations fail, productions could see drivers, electricians, animal handlers, and more hit the picket lines. The combined effect would see most TV and film sets shut down again.

Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that last year’s actors and writer strikes had far-reaching effects on countless industries. In the ashes of those union actions, a Hollywood industry trade publication inquired whether those strikes were worth the damage they wrought.

Workers’ opinions remain divided on the subject. Still, some are calling the strikes by a combined 170,000+ film and TV-associated workers “one of the great self-inflicted wounds in union history.” Half a year later, U.S.-based production “in the last six months is down 37 percent” in this industry, with many workers now unable to make the minimum amount needed for union health insurance. Additionally, many fear that the strikes have shrunk TV and film output on a long-term basis, which should be a cautionary tale to those who claim that unions are a solution to workplace woes.