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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 ...
2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike. 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike. 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike. 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States. 2019. 425,500. 2019 General Electric strike. 2019 Stop & Shop strike. 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike.
Coeur d'Alene labor strike: 1892 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: 3,000 St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900: 1900 St. Louis, Missouri: 3,000: Chinese Labor Strike of 1867: 1867 Sierra Nevada, California: 3,000 Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike: 1986 North Billerica, Massachusetts: 3,000 2021 Columbia University strike: 2021 New ...
The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers ...
Union violence in the United States is physical force intended to harm employers, managers, replacement workers, union abstainers, sympathizers of the prior groups, or their families. On various occasions violence has been committed by unions or union members during labor disputes in the United States. When union violence has occurred, it has ...
The National Labor Union (NLU), founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved in 1872. The regional Order of the Knights of St. Crispin was founded in the northeast in 1867 and claimed 50,000 members by 1870, by far the largest union in the country.
Strikes in the United States in the 1930s played a major role in reshaping the economy as it recovered from the Great Depression. Unions gained millions of members for unions in the American Federation of Labor (AFL)and the new Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Energized by successful strikes in major industries with the help of New ...
At least 162 injured. One mill guard death. The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34[4][2][1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty ...