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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 ...
The Malaysian Chinese Association (abbrev: MCA; Malay: Persatuan Cina Malaysia), formerly known as the Malayan Chinese Association, is an ethnic political party in Malaysia that seeks to represent the Malaysian Chinese ethnicity; it was one of the three original major component parties of the coalition party in Malaysia called the Alliance Party, which later became a broader coalition called ...
The Universal Pictures Debut Network, or simply the Debut Network, was a syndicated movie package that MCA Television sold to independent stations. [3] The service reached agreements with ten stations in larger American markets [4] such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago by late 1984.
MCA Inc. (originally an initialism for Music Corporation of America) was an American media conglomerate founded in 1924. Originally a talent agency with artists in the music business as clients, the company became a major force in the film industry, and later expanded into television production.
2000 Commercial Actors strike: 182 days [10] 1988 1988 Commercial Actors Strike 25 days [11] 1988 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: 154 days (the longest strike in the guild's history) [12] 1987 1987 Directors Strike 19 hours and 41 minutes (the shortest of all Hollywood strikes) [13] 1986 1986 Actors Strike 1 day [14] 1985 1985 Writers ...
See the list of companies letting workers go in 2025. ... Jeff Bezos's rocket company, Blue Origin, is laying off about 10% of its workforce, a move that could affect more than 1,000 employees.
Hollywood is on strike, but you can still find Stephanie Beatriz, Tiffany Haddish, Billy Crudup and Natasha Lyonne acting this summer — pro bono, of course. A-list actors may be on strike, but ...
Malayan communists organised a successful 24-hour general strike on 29 January 1946, [30] before organising 300 strikes in 1947. [ 30 ] To combat rising trade union activity the British used police and soldiers as strikebreakers, and employers enacted mass dismissals, forced evictions of striking workers from their homes, legal harassment, and ...