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Pullman Strike - Began on May 11, 1894, after workers for the Pullman Company began strike after a reduction in wages. The strike spread nationwide and shut down most railroad traffic west of Detroit. The strike lasted several months and 30 strikers were killed in various riots and clashes with government forces. 30 57
1995 Boeing Strike: 1995 Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton) 32,000 - 34,000 2005 New York City transit strike: 2005 New York City: 31,000 2019 Stop & Shop strike: 2019 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut: 31,000 [34] 1946 New York City truckers strike: 1946 New York City & New Jersey: 30,000–35,000 1938 New York City truckers ...
R+L Carriers truck with tandem trailer, Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1965, Ralph L. "Larry" Roberts I and Ronald Campbell Jr. (1942-2020) purchased a single truck they used to haul furniture. This is when it was called R+L trucking, but Ronald Campbell Jr. left due to a worry that he wouldn’t be able to see his family.
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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 ...
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Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911; 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike; Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912; 1912 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike; 1912 New York City waiters' strike; Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912; Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912; Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912
Sheryl Lee Ralph fired up the crowd at a SAG-AFTRA strike rally in Los Angeles with a defiant speech featuring lyrics from another SAG member: Rihanna. The Abbott Elementary star, 66, demanded on ...