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1960 Writers Guild of America strike; 1962–1963 New York City newspaper strike; 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1966 New York City transit strike; 1968 New York City teachers' strike; 1969–1970 General Electric strike
2000 L.A. County Workers Strike: 2000 California: 47,000 [5] 1967 New York City teachers strike: 1967 New York City: 47,000 [3] 1956 US Glass strike: 1956 46,000 [20] 1968 East & Gulf Coast Stevedoring strike: 1968 East & Gulf Coast: 46,000 [73] [43] 2011 Verizon Strike: 2011 nationwide 45,800 [28] 1969 Bituminous coal strike: 1969 45,000 [48 ...
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
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 ...
2000 L.A. County Workers Strike; 2001 99,100 2002 45,900 2003 129,200 2003 Broadway musicians strike; Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004; 2003 Hospitality Congress Plaza Hotel strike; 2004 170,700 2004 SBC Communications workers strike; 2004–05 NHL lockout; 2005 99,600 2005 New York City transit strike; 2006 70,100
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis held a packed union meeting at their Beverly Hills home. Desi Arnaz poured his heart out in an open letter to the industry while Lew Wasserman worked the numbers ...
One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city-county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6] They can be organized as either a charter municipality, governed by its own charter, or a general-law municipality (or "code city"), governed by state statute. [7]
This list of current: cities; towns, unincorporated communities; counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of California.; Information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable are also included.