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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 ...
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 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 ...
Garment mfg., Teamsters Strike as many as 21 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike: Riots erupted on April 7 and continued almost daily until mid-July. Sometimes thousands of striking workers would clash with strikebreakers and armed police each day. By late July, when the strike ended, 21 people had been killed and a total of 416 injured. [42] [43] [44]
The Teamsters announced a strike at the DHL air hub in Northern Kentucky on Dec. 7. The tentative agreement still needs to be ratified in a vote by Local 100 members before it's official.
The extended strikes in the states of Georgia, California, Kentucky and New York come after 100 Amazon drivers started a strike at the e-commerce giant's facility in Skokie, Illinois, in June. As ...
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U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901; 1902 691,507 Anthracite coal strike of 1902; 1903 787,834 Oxnard strike of 1903; Carbon County Strike; Pacific Electric Railway strike of 1903; 1904 573,815 1905 [3] 302,434 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike; 1906 Not measured United Railroads Strike of 1906 by IBEW1245 in San Francisco; 1906 GE sit-down ...
The strike comes after Teamsters says Amazon ignored the union's Dec. 15 deadline to negotiate new contracts for higher wages, better benefits and safer work conditions.