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Any news articles or third-party reports to confirm that figure of 250M strikers? The only sources I've found on it so far are far-left political websites.

I hesitate to trust e.g. Fox News when reporting on the size of Trump's inauguration; likewise, I am skeptical to trust far-left websites reporting on the size of a far-left rally (as pics of hammer-and-sickle flags seem to indicate). An independent report on the size of these strikes would be helpful.

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It's unfair to be downvoting you for this, even as the OP and someone sympathetic with the strikes I can acknowledge that this is a motivated source and the headline number is probably embellished. I can't edit now but it might be good for mods to just remove the specific number from the title.

The number is from the unions and organizers involved in the strike. The sum of their members lists I would guess.

« The huge mobilisation, which organisers said involved 250 million people » https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/indi-n27.html

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