THE Strike Map recorded that 170,000 workplaces took strike action during the wave of walkouts last year.

Academics hailed the “considerable value” of its data given the lack of detail published in Britain’s official statistics body, as they published the first academic report into the worker-powered platform today.

Strike Map, which monitors industrial disputes, has recorded the number of individual workplaces taking action with reasons over the past four years.

They include a record of more than 43,000 workplaces taking strike action in July last year, it said.

Its data “provide an interesting and important development in strike statistics in the UK, particularly given the paucity of detail now published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS),” report authors Dr Andy Hodder of the University of Birmingham and Dr Stephen Mustchin of the University of Manchester said.

They added that it has “considerable value in enabling commentary on a range of key measures that are not meaningfully published elsewhere,” including the number of individual workplaces taking action for the first time and their reasons given for striking.

The report, launched at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester last night, details the demands of workers during 2023.