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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 ...
In 1914 one of the most bitter labor conflicts in American history took place at a mining colony in Colorado called Ludlow. After workers went on strike in September 1913 with grievances ranging from requests for an eight-hour day to allegations of subjugation, Colorado governor Elias Ammons called in the National Guard in October 1913. That ...
This strike marked perhaps the only time in American history that a state militia was called out to protect miners from sheriff's deputies. 21 April – June 1894 (United States) Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894 -- A two-month nationwide strike by miners of hard coal in the United States.
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 ...
[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.
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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 ...
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, a nationwide railroad shop workers strike, began on July 1. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages for railway repair and maintenance workers would be cut by seven cents on July 1. This cut, which represented an average 12 percent wage decrease for the ...