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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 ...
1988 Writers Guild of America strike: 1988 Hollywood, California: 9,000 [97] 2023 Rutgers University strike: 2023 New Jersey: 8,500 1981 Writers Guild of America strike: 1981 Hollywood, California +8,400 [98] Colorado Coal Strike: 1927 Serene, Colorado: 8,000 Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931: 1931 Tampa, Florida: 8,000 1923 San Pedro maritime ...
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)
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.
The general coal strike lasted 163 days. [4] However non-unionized mining workers were not covered by the UMW contract. After the UMW ended their strike, around 25,000 Windber, Pennsylvania miners [12] continued striking. Those miners voted to end their strike on August 14, 1923, after failing to gain a contract. [1] [8]
[6] p.62 The strike victory in 1894 enabled the WFM to build labor organizations at the district, state, and regional levels. Mining companies acted on a concern about miners stealing high grade ore by hiring Pinkerton guards. In one case three hundred miners walked out to protest the policy, the company negotiated, and the Pinkerton guards ...