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Arizona copper mine strike of 1983: United States Arizona: 1983–1986 Asbestos strike of 1949: Canada Quebec: 1949 Asturian miners' strike of 1934: Spain Asturias: 1934 Asturian miners' strike of 2012: Spain Asturias: 2012 Australian coal strike of 1949: Australia New South Wales: 1949 Blackball miner's strike of 1908: New Zealand Blackball: 1908
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 ...
A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor ...
2024 Caserones Copper Mine strike, by workers at the Caserones Copper Mine, owned by Lundin Mining. [54] 2024 Escondida strike, by workers at Escondida, the biggest copper mine in the world. [55] 2024 Hato Hone St John strike, strike by Hato Hone St John ambulance workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. [56]
Scranton General Strike, part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The day after railroad workers conceded and returned to work, angry striking miners clashed with a 38-man posse partly led by William Walker Scranton, general manager of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company. When a posse member was shot in the knee, the posse responded by killing ...
The Elliot Lake Miners Strike was a wildcat strike by approximately 1,000 uranium miners who worked at Denison uranium mine in the Elliot Lake area of Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] The strike was the first time that Canadian workers had taken industrial action over safety concerns, and it led to Ontario Premier Bill Davis creating a royal commission which led to the creation of new health and ...
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Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.