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The largest strike in Soviet history, it was the first strike in the Soviet Union's history to be conducted legally. The miners' strike gathered support from Soviet dissidents and nationalist groups, and later snowballed into broader support for anti-communist causes, ultimately playing a significant part in the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
Bituminous coal strike of 1977–78: United States Nationwide 1977–1978 Broken Hill miners' strike of 1892: Australia New South Wales: 1892 Cananea strike: Mexico Sonora: 1906 Cape Breton coal strike of 1981: Canada Nova Scotia: 1981 United Mine Workers of America Coal Creek miners' strike of 1891–1892: United States Tennessee: 1891–1892 ...
Ore miners working on the Marquette Iron Range (located in the United States' Upper Peninsula of Michigan) went on strike in July 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War. They were put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan , using an improvised armored train , and later with an army detachment from Chicago.
Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story is an 88-minute BBC Two documentary film about the 1984 UK miners' strike including the Battle of Orgreave.The film splices archive footage of the strikes, with stories from 15 individuals who were directly involved on the both sides of the events, including the miners and the police force.
The Riotinto mining strike of 1920 was a general strike that took place in the Riotinto-Nerva mining basin during 1920. The conflict went through several phases of varying intensity and lasted nine months, during which about 11,000 workers took part in the strike movement.
[4]: 32 At the peak of the first strike, 5,800 miners were idle and only 900 working. [4]: 46 The strikebreakers were protected by private mine guards with full county deputy privileges, who were legally able to exercise their powers with impunity outside the walls of their employers.
The national strike by coal miners began on 9 January 1972. [16] It was the first official national miners' strike since the General Strike in 1926. [18] [19] The dispute arose from pay negotiations – the miners, led by Joe Gormley, initially asked for pay rises of between 35–47%, while the National Coal Board (NCB), under Derek Ezra, was only prepared to offer 7.4%. [20]
The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been nationalised in 1947.