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Elliot Lake miners' strike of 1974: Canada Elliot Lake: 1974 United Steelworkers: Empire Zinc strike: United States New Mexico: 1950–1952 Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977: Romania Transylvania: 1977 Khewra Salt Mines workers strikes 1849–1930: British India Punjab: 1849–1930 Kosovo miners' strike of 1989: Yugoslavia Kosovska Mitrovica: 1989
The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in Britain. Its main goal of securing a minimum wage. After a million men had walked out for 37 days, the UK Government intervened and ended the strike by passing a minimum wage law. [16] This caused many problems with ships due to the shortage of fuel.
West Virginia miners went on strike the following day in protest. 18 March 1970 (United States) The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [ 42 ] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees.
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. As ...
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Collective action in the United Kingdom including the right to strike in UK labour law is the main support for collective bargaining. Although the right to strike (or "industrial action" traditionally) has attained the status, since 1906, of a fundamental human right, protected in domestic case law, statute, the European Convention on Human Rights and international law, the rules in statute ...
The History of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies. It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was primarily used to power steam engines, heat buildings and generate electricity.
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 ...