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The following is a list of miners' strikes. Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions. ... List of strikes; History of coal mining in the United States;
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 ...
1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1] 1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 Textile workers' strike (1934) 1934 New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 ...
2024 Caserones Copper Mine strike, by workers at the Caserones Copper Mine, owned by Lundin Mining. [54] 2024 Escondida strike, by workers at Escondida, the biggest copper mine in the world. [55] 2024 Hato Hone St John strike, strike by Hato Hone St John ambulance workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. [56]
The strike was the most violent industrial dispute in Britain of the 20th century. [22]: 37 Strikes in the British coal industry had a history of violence, but the 1984–1985 strike exceeded even the 1926 strike in the levels of violence. [22]: 37 Nevertheless, the majority of pickets lines were non-violent.
Cripple Creek miners' strike (1894) Coal strike of 1902; Copper Country strike (1913–1914) UMW General coal strike (1922) Colorado Coal Strike (1927–1928) Harlan County War (1931–1939) Colorado Labor Wars; Illinois coal wars (1898–1900) Railroad Wars; Range war; Sheep Wars; Molly Maguires; List of worker deaths in United States labor ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)
Another direct result of the Pittston Strike was the formation of the Coal Act, which was established in 1992 and made it mandatory by law for mining companies to provide health and retirement benefits for its workers. At the time of the strike, Pittston was a strong coal company and the area was full of strikers protesting.