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With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company. The walkout ...
Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 nationwide 400,000 [4] 1949 US coal strike: 1949 nationwide 400,000 1946 UMW mine strike: 1946 nationwide 400,000 [8] [9] [10] 1935 US Bituminous Coal Strike: 1935 nationwide 394,000 1919 UMW Coal strike: 1919 nationwide 370,000 Telephone Strike: 1947 nationwide ...
Pinkerton agents escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884 Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Don't Scab". A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.
Strike (unit), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels; Electric strike, access control device used for doors; Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning; Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation
In 1947, Congress responded to the strike wave by enacting, over President Truman's veto, the Taft–Hartley Act, restricting the powers and activities of labor unions. The act is still in force as of 2025. The strike wave also caused a rally in support for the Labour Party, prior to the 1945 United Kingdom general election. [12] [13]
The rally began peacefully under a light rain on the evening of May 4. August Spies, Albert Parsons, and the Rev. Samuel Fielden spoke to a crowd estimated variously at between 600 and 3,000 [22] while standing in an open wagon adjacent to the square on Des Plaines Street. [23] A large number of on-duty police officers watched from nearby. [23]
Police strike/coup partly in relation to planned benefit reductions. [19] After a state of emergency and the near assassination of the president, the government steps away from planned cuts to police and military benefits. [20] Police and military pay is then also increased. [20] Bahia, Brazil (2012) [21] 2013 police revolts in Argentina.