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In April 1920, 17,000 elevator operators went on strike in New York City. [7] Roughly 900 of these strikers were women. [7] The strike was due to operators seeing wage cuts of 10–15%; and, nightmen working 84 hours a week, with no days off. [8] As a result, they asked for wage increases of 25–30%, an eight-hour workday, and for the union to ...
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1960 Writers Guild of America strike; 1961 1,450,000 1962 1,230,000 1962 New York City newspaper strike; 1963 941,000 1964 1,640,000 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1965 1,550,000 1966 1,960,000 1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US ...
1960 Writers Guild of America strike: 1960 Hollywood, California - St. John's University strike of 1966–67: 1966–67 New York City - 2007–2008 CBS News writers strike: 2007–2008 New York City - 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike: 1919 New York City - 1942-43 musicians' strike: 1942–43 nationwide - 1981 Milwaukee Police strike: 1981 ...
The United Auto Workers strike isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s part of a growing movement of US workers walking off the job. Strikes make a comeback in America
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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 ...
More than 75,000 unionized Kaiser Permanente employees are returning to work after a historic three-day strike. But an even bigger, longer work stoppage could be just around the corner.