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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 ...
From November 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946 (113 days), CIO's United Automobile Workers (UAW), organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a nationwide strike against General Motors, workers used the tactic of the sit down strike. [1] It was "the longest strike against a major manufacturer" that the UAW had yet seen, and it was also "the longest ...
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)
1922 UMW General coal strike: 1922 nationwide 560,000 1952 steel strike: 1952 nationwide 540,000 [1] [2] 1971 Rail strike: 1971 nationwide 519,000 Steel strike of 1959: 1959 nationwide 500,000 [3] 1956 steel strike: 1956 nationwide 500,000 [4] 1949 steel strike: 1949 naionwide 459,000 [5] 1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1 ...
(the longest strike in the guild’s history) [6] 2007-08 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike: 99 days [7] [8] [9] 2000 2000 Commercial Actors strike: 182 days [10] 1988 1988 Commercial Actors Strike 25 days [11] 1988 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: 154 days (the longest strike in the guild's history) [12] 1987 1987 Directors Strike
While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history set to hit 100 days on Saturday after talks broke off with studios.
Burston Strike School. The Burston Strike School was founded as a consequence of a school strike and became the centre of the longest running strike in British history, that lasted from 1914 to 1939 in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England. Today, the building stands as a museum to the strike.
1988: A fight over residual payments for TV shows broadcast in foreign countries helps trigger a 22-week strike by writers, the longest walkout by the WGA in film industry history.The strike ...