If 2022 was about the rise of unions in the US, 2023 is shaping up to be the year of the strike - but this reaches far beyond America's shores.
Britain faces the largest ever strike by health workers today as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out. There are transport strikes, education strikes, civil servants are striking - the Guardian website is now running a "strike calendar" to keep track of them all.
And this week bids will start coming in to buy one of the world's biggest sporting names: Manchester United.
The club is up for sale by the US-based Glazer family, who are despised by the club's fans for siphoning billions out of the club and eroding its dominance on the field.
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