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In April 1920, 17,000 elevator operators went on strike in New York City. [7] Roughly 900 of these strikers were women. [7] The strike was due to operators seeing wage cuts of 10–15%; and, nightmen working 84 hours a week, with no days off. [8] As a result, they asked for wage increases of 25–30%, an eight-hour workday, and for the union to ...
1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 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 ...
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)
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The United Auto Workers strike isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s part of a growing movement of US workers walking off the job. Strikes make a comeback in America
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 ...
The number of strikes with 100 or more strikers that have lasted a week or more has soared to 56 in the first nine months of this year, according to a database of labor actions kept by the Cornell ...
September 29—Spain—A power cut struck the entire island of Tenerife, affecting almost one million people and carrying out dozens of emergency services, most of them people trapped in elevators. [246] November 1—United States and Canada—A major storm left nearly 2,000,000 people without power.