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Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894: United States Colorado: 1894 Western Federation of Miners: Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1903: United States Colorado: 1903–1904 Colorado Labor Wars: Elliot Lake miners' strike of 1974: Canada Elliot Lake: 1974 United Steelworkers: Empire Zinc strike: United States New Mexico: 1950–1952 Jiu Valley ...
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 ...
By 1860, the railroads had made a transition from use of local wood supplies to coal for their locomotives. Pennsylvania became the center of the coal industry. Many, if not most, of the factory workers and miners were recent immigrants from Europe, or their children.
Industrial Structure, Union Strategy and Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1881 - 1894 Social Science History 26 (2002): 1 - 32. Roy, Andrew. A history of the coal miners of the United States, from the development of the mines to the close of the anthracite strike of 1902, including a brief sketch of early British miners (1907) online
1860 (United States) New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860. 800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1863 (United States) The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. [6]
[3]: 36 For strike numbers this change could pose issues, however for total worker estimates it is considered to only have small effects. [ 3 ] : 36, (42 in pdf) Within this period, with the passing of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, the program was revamped under the work stoppage program, however the criteria remained largely identical.
Creative methods of union busting have been around for a long time. In 1907, Morris Friedman reported that a Pinkerton agent who had infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners managed to gain control of a strike relief fund, and attempted to exhaust that union's treasury by awarding lavish benefits to strikers. [4]
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