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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 ...
Riots and civil unrest in Chicago chronological order; Date Issue Event Deaths Injuries April–July, 1905 Labor 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike - The United Brotherhood of Teamsters started a strike in support for a small union of workers from Montgomery Ward but soon garnered support from most unions in the city. Riots occurred almost daily ...
1973 Chicago teachers strike: 1973 Chicago: 20,000 [86] 1948 Caterpillar strike: 1948 Peoria, Illinois +20,000 1982 garment workers' strike [87] 1982 New York City: 20,000 2019 AT&T strike: 2019 Southern United States: 20,000 Philadelphia General Strike: 1835 Philadelphia 20,000 New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860: 1860 Lynn, Massachusetts ...
Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle ...
Workers at 11 Chicago-area nursing homes owned by Infinity Healthcare Management will go on strike on Labor Day. The strike is currently planned to last one day. Infinity nursing homes in Niles ...
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)
Chicago, IL Garment workers Strike 2 Two of the five people killed in the 1910 Chicago Garment workers' strike were strikers killed by private detectives. The first was Charles Lazinskas, killed by a private detective on December 3, and Frank Nagreckis was shot and killed by a special policeman while picketing on the 15th.
The union announced on Friday that workers in three cities — Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago — will strike beginning on Fridayand continuing until Christmas Eve.