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Another general strike was organized for March 19 of 2009, specifically calling for assistance for workers, an end to tax breaks for businesses and the wealthy, and an end to cuts of public sector jobs. This strike drew an even larger number of people, with estimates ranging between 1.2 and 3 million. [1]
A deserted shopping centre in the Bas du Fort district of Le Gosier, which was blockaded by strikers. A road block near Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, during the strikes.. The 2009 French Caribbean general strikes began in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe on 20 January 2009, and spread to neighbouring Martinique on 5 February 2009. [1]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
City of Toronto workers on strike. The 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (also known as the 2009 Toronto strike) was a legal strike action that was undertaken by the Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416 and CUPE Local 79, two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the city of Toronto.
2008–2009 York University strike; 2009 French Caribbean general strikes; 2009–2010 Vale Inco strike; C. 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike;
In January and February 2009, there was a series of two air strikes in Sudan and one in the Red Sea (code-named "Birds of Prey"), [1] allegedly conducted by Israel against Iranian arms being smuggled to the Gaza Strip through Sudan.
The strike at Lindsey resumed on 11 June 2009, [14] after a subcontractor at the site laid off a number of employees, [15] later confirmed to be 51. The strike was quickly followed by sympathy strikes at Cheshire's Fiddlers Ferry Power Station on 15 June and Aberthaw on 17 June. [16]
The strike began on November 4, 2008, and concluded on January 29, 2009, when the provincial parliament legislated the union back to work. The strike lasted for 85 days, making it the longest academic strike in English-speaking Canada to that time, only surpassed by the subsequent 2018 York University strike.