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Bituminous coal strike of 1973 [1] United States West Virginia: 1973 Bituminous coal strike of 1974: United States Nationwide 1974 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Coal mining Strike 1 A coal-miners strike at Wilder ended shortly after the homicide [104] [105] [106] of United Mine Workers union leader Barney Graham in front of the company store by company mine guards Jack "Shorty" Green and Doc Thompson on April 30, 1933. [107] [108] October 5, 1933 Ambridge, PA Steel Strike 1
The general coal strike lasted 163 days. [4] However non-unionized mining workers were not covered by the UMW contract. After the UMW ended their strike, around 25,000 Windber, Pennsylvania miners [12] continued striking. Those miners voted to end their strike on August 14, 1923, after failing to gain a contract. [1] [8]
The employers argued they should not make higher payments to offset the effect of the wildcat strikes. [1] No new agreement was reached when the 1971 agreement expired, and UMWA struck on November 12, 1974. A tentative agreement was rejected twice by UMWA's bargaining council—once prior to and once during the strike.
A Strike like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8018-6901-3. "Coal Strike: First the Calm, Now the Storm." Time [New York City] 24 June 1989: 1. Crow, Peter. Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns. Athens: University of ...
A two-hour strike on 1 November 1989 protested the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev, demanding an end to the Communist Party's one-party rule and direct elections to the office of President of the Soviet Union. A vote by the regional strike committee to go on strike in all of Donetsk Oblast ended in a 14–14 deadlock.