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Manifesto of the South Side Central Strike Committee, issued during the strike. The 1889 London dock strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London. It broke out on June 18, 1889, and resulted in victory for the 100,000 strikers when they won their pay claim of sixpence per hour, the so-called "dockers' tanner".
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1926 United Kingdom general strike; 1943 Rolls-Royce strike; 1970 United Kingdom dockers' strike; 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike; 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike; 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike; 1989–1990 British ambulance strike; 2005 BBC strike; 2007 Royal Mail industrial disputes; 2008 National Union of Teachers ...
In 1907, the Belfast Dock strike took place from 26 April to 28 August, including Queen's Quay by Sir Samuel Kelly's employee's after men from Kelly's coal quay were sacked for trying to join National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). [7] On 9 May, locked-out coalmen from Kelly's Yard attacked strikebreakers unloading coal at the docks.
The potential impact of the port strike on the economy is a key point of leverage for workers. The timeline remains fuzzy but experts say a prolonged work stoppage would cause significant delays ...
Negotiations between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance began breaking down in June 2024. [6] One major sticking point was wages. The ILA wanted members to receive a $5/hour raise each year of the next six-year contract, whereas the Maritime Alliance proposed a $2.50/hour raise each year.
A strike would effectively shut down three dozen locations at 14 port authorities along the East and Gulf coasts, causing shortages and driving up prices on a host of goods.
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 ...