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Arizona copper mine strike of 1983: United States Arizona: 1983–1986 Asbestos strike of 1949: Canada Quebec: 1949 Asturian miners' strike of 1934: Spain Asturias: 1934 Asturian miners' strike of 2012: Spain Asturias: 2012 Australian coal strike of 1949: Australia New South Wales: 1949 Blackball miner's strike of 1908: New Zealand Blackball: 1908
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 ...
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike: 2007–2008 Hollywood, California: 12,000 [40] 1973 Cleveland teachers strike: 1973 Cleveland: 12,000 [5] September 1967 General Motors strike: 1967 Dayton, Ohio: 11,600 [93] [94] 2021 Washington state carpenters strike: 2021 Washington: 11,500 2023 Writers Guild of America strike: 2023
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)
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 ...
Copper mining Strike 1 Anaconda Road Massacre: A strike by Butte miners was suppressed with gunfire when deputized mine guards suddenly fired upon unarmed picketers. 17 were shot in the back as they tried to flee, and one man died. [90] May 19, 1920 Matewan, WV Coal mining Strike 3 (Bob Mullins, Tot Tinsley, Cabel Testerman)
The Coal strike of 1902 (also known as the anthracite coal strike) [1] [2] was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities.
1894 – Pullman strike American Railway Union strike versus federal troops, many cities west of Detroit; 1894 – Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike, coal mining regions; 1895 – New Orleans dockworkers riot, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1897 – Lattimer massacre, September 1897, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania (labor massacre)