Labor Strikes in the 20th and 21st Centuries



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Labor Strikes in the 20th and 21st Centuries

1900s

  • Diamond Workers Strike (1900, Amsterdam)

  • St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 (1900, U.S.)

  • Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)

  • Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)

  • Penrhyn Quarry strike (1900) (1900–1903, Wales, U.K.)

  • Australian Workers strike (23rd Jan, 1900, Aust.)

  • U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)

  • Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)

  • San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)

  • Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)

  • Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)

  • Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)

  • Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903–1904, U.S.)

  • Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.)

  • Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)

  • New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike (1904, U.S.)

  • Packinghouse Workers' Strike (1904, U.S.)

  • Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1904, U.S.)

  • Cananea Strike (1905, Sonora, Mexico)

  • Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907, U.S.)

  • Río Blanco Strike (1907, Mexico)

  • San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907 (U.S.)

  • Pensacola streetcar operators' strike (1908, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.)

  • New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)

  • Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)

  • Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, U.S.)

  • Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s

  • 1910 New York Cloakmakers Strike, also known as "The Great Revolt" (1910, U.S.)

  • Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–1911 (U.S.)

  • Chicago Garment Workers' Strike of 1910–1911 (U.S.)

  • 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)

  • 1911 Grand Rapids Furniture Workers (U.S.)

  • Lawrence textile strike, often known as the Bread and Roses strike (1912, U.S.)

  • 1912 Little Falls textile strike (U.S.)

  • Waihi miners' strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)

  • Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)

  • Muscatine Button Workers' Strike

  • Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 (U.S.)

  • Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)

  • Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, U.S.)

  • Paterson silk strike (1913, U.S.)

  • 1913 New York City hotel workers' strike (U.S.)

  • 1913 Great Strike (1913, New Zealand)

  • Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913 (U.S.)

  • 1913 Detroit automobile strike (U.S.)

  • Burston Strike School (1914–1939, UK)

  • Bayonne refinery strikes (1915 and 1916, U.S.)

  • Mesabi Range miners' strike (1916, U.S.)

  • BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)

  • Police officers' strike, (1918–19, UK)

  • Coal strike (1919, U.S.)

  • Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)

  • 1919 Battle of George Square (UK)

  • Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)

1920s

  • Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)

  • 1920 Alabama coal strike (1920, U.S.)

  • Clothing Workers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)

  • Kronstadt Rebellion (1921, U.S.S.R.)

  • Battle of Blair Mountain (1921, U.S.)

  • Seamen's Strike (1921, U.S.)

  • Black Friday (1921) (UK)

  • Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (U.S.)

  • Herrin massacre (1922, U.S.)

  • Anthracite Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)

  • Bituminous Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)

  • Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1922, U.S.)

  • Portland Waterfront Strikes (1922, U.S.)

  • General strike of 1923 (Sri Lanka)

  • 1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)

  • Hanapepe massacre (1924, U.S.)

  • Kashmiri Silk Workers 3rd Strike 1924

  • Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)

  • Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)

  • Stripa Labour Conflict (Sweden, 1925)

  • Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)

  • Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)

  • Columbine Mine Massacre Strike (1927, U.S.)

  • New Bedford Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1928, U.S.)

  • Banana massacre (1928, Colombia)

  • Tramway strike (1929, Sri Lanka)

  • 1929 Timber Workers strike (Australia)

  • Lupeni Strike of 1929 (Romania)

  • Rothbury Riot (1929, Australia)

  • Loray Mill Strike (Gastonia, North Carolina, Textile Strike) (1929, U.S.)

1930s

  • Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)

  • Tampa Florida, Cigar Workers' Strike (1931, U.S.)

  • Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)

  • Harlan County War, Harlan County, Kentucky (1931, U.S.)

  • Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)

  • California Pea Pickers' Strike (1932, U.S.)

  • Century Airlines Pilots' Strike (1932, U.S.)

  • Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)

  • Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)

  • Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)

  • Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)

  • Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)

  • California Farmworkers' Strike (1933, U.S.)

  • Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)

  • New Mexico Miners' Strike (1933, U.S.)

  • Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)

  • Kohler Strike, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1934, U.S.)

  • Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

  • Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.)

  • Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

  • Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)

  • Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)

  • Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)

  • 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)

  • NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)

  • Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935, Canada)

  • Copperbelt strike (1935) (Zambia)

  • Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers' strike (1935, U.S.)

  • Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)

  • On-to-Ottawa Trek (1935)

  • Southern Sharecroppers' and Farm Laborers' Strike (1935, U.S.)

  • 1936 Syrian general strike (1936, Syria)

  • Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Seafarer's Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Rubber Workers' Strike (1936, U.S.)

  • S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)

  • Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 (U.S.)

  • Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936–1937, U.S.)

  • Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)

  • Memorial Day massacre of 1937 "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)

  • Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Strike (1937, Maine, U.S.)

  • Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)

  • Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)

  • Hilo Hawaii Massacre (1938, U.S.)

  • Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)

  • General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

  • Ford Motor Strike (1939, U.S.)

  • Disney animators' strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s

  • Mooloya estate strike wave (1940, Sri Lanka)

  • Allis-Chalmers Strike (1941, U.S.)

  • Captive Coal Miners' Strike (1941, U.S.)

  • Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1941, U.S.)

  • February Strike (1941, Netherlands)

  • International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)

  • New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)

  • North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)

  • Quit India movement (1942, India)

  • 1942-43 musicians' strike (U.S.)

  • Bituminous Coal Strike (1943, U.S.)

  • Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)

  • Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)

  • Hollywood Black Friday (U.S.)

  • Philadelphia Transit Strike (1944, U.S.)

  • Port Chicago mutiny (1944, U.S.)

  • Kelsey-Hayes Strike (1945, U.S.)

  • Strike wave of 1946 (1945-1946, U.S.)

  • New York City Longshoreman's Strike (1945, U.S.)

  • Montgomery Ward Strike (1945, U.S.)

  • Oil Workers' Strike (1945, U.S.)

  • 1945 Swedish Metal Workers' Strike

  • African Mine Workers' Strike (1946, S.A.)

  • Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • 1946 Queensland meat industry strike (1946, Australia)

  • Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)

  • 1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)

  • Hawaiian Sugar Strike (1946)

  • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)

  • Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)

  • Longshore Strike (1948, U.S.)

  • 1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)

  • Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada

  • 1949 Australian coal strike (1949)

  • Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

  • Carlyle Teachers Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s

  • Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)

  • "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)

  • General strike against Leopold III of Belgium

  • New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)

  • 1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)

  • Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)

  • The Hartal of 1953 (1953, Sri Lanka)

  • Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)

  • UNITE Strike (1955, U.S.)

  • Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)

  • East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1956, U.S.)

  • Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)

  • Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)

  • Musicians Union strike (1958, U.S.)

  • Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

1960s

  • General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)

  • Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)

  • 1960 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

  • 1960–1961 Winter General Strike (Wallonia)

  • 1962 New York City newspaper strike (1962, U.S.)

  • East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)

  • Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)

  • 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike (1964–5, Australia)

  • Delano grape strike (1965–1970, U.S.)

  • 1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)

  • Gurindji strike (1966, Australia)

  • St. John's University strike of 1966–67 (U.S.)

  • Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots

  • Railroad machinists' strike of 1967 (U.S.)

  • Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)

  • May 1968 in France

  • Chrysler wildcat strike (1968, U.S.)

  • New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968 (U.S.)

  • Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 (U.S.)

  • Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)

  • Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot

  • The President National Strike (1969, US)

1970s

  • Colour Strike (1970–1971, UK)

  • National Student Campus Strike (1970, U.S.)also related to Kent State Shootings (May, 1970, U.S.)

  • Salad Bowl strike (1970–1971, U.S.)

  • U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees

  • General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)

  • New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)

  • Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.)

  • 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike (1971, UK)

  • Farrah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)

  • Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers' Strike (1972, U.S.)

  • Philadelphia Teachers' Strike (1972, U.S.)

  • 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)

  • UK miners' strike (1972) (UK)

  • 1974 railway strike in India by 17 million workers of Indian Railways in 1974 (India)[1][2][3][4]

  • 1974 Baltimore teacher's strike, municipal workers' strike, and police strike (U.S.)

  • 1974 UPR strike

  • Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)

  • Ulster Workers' Council Strike (1974, UK)

  • UK miners' strike (1974) (UK)

  • Washington Post Pressmen's Strike (1975, U.S.)

  • Musician's Union Strike (1975, U.S.)

  • Japan National Railway Workers Union seven-days strike (1975, Japan)

  • Grunwick Dispute (1976–1977) London

  • Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)[5]

  • Coors Beer Strike and Boycott (1977, U.S.)

  • J.P. Stevens Boycott (1977, U.S.)

  • Willmar Minnesota, Bank Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)

  • Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977–1978 (U.S.)

  • Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike (1978, U.S.)

  • 1978 New York City newspaper strike

  • Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)

  • Winter of Discontent (1978–1979, UK)

  • Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)

  • Art Strike 1977–1980

  • 1979 ITV strike

1980s

  • 1980 General strike, Sri Lanka

  • 1980 Swedish labour conflict

  • 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)

  • 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)

  • Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)

  • Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981, U.S.)

  • Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)

  • 1981 UPR strike

  • 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

  • 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)

  • Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)

  • Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)

  • Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)

  • UK miners' strike (1984–1985)

  • Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation (1984, UK)

  • Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

  • Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

  • Mudginberri dispute (1985, Northern Territory, Australia)

  • Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)

  • Chicago Tribune Strike (1986, U.S.)

  • Dollar Sweets dispute (1986, Australia)

  • Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike (1986, U.S.)

  • Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants' Strike (1986, U.S.)

  • United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)

  • Major Indoor Soccer League Lockout two-week lockout (1986, U.S.)

  • Wapping dispute (1986, UK)

  • Bollywood Strike (1987, India)

  • The Great Workers' Struggle (1987, South Korea)

  • International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)

  • Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)

  • 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike

  • 1988 VSEL Barrow in Furness strike (U.K.)

  • 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

  • 1989 Australian pilots' strike

  • Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1989, U.S.)

  • Bell Atlantic Strike (August 1989)

  • Nynex Strike (August 1989) Lasted 4 months.

  • Pittston Coal strike (1989–90, U.S.)

1990s

  • A.E.Staley/Tate & Lyle Dispute and Lockout and Caterpillar Strike (US, 1990-1995)

  • Greyhound Bus Strike of 1990 (U.S.)

  • Art Strike 1990–1993

  • Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)

  • Giant Mine Strike 1992 Canada, 18 months long, nine men murdered

  • 1992 NHL strike (U.S., Canada)

  • Timex strike (1993)

  • 1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S., Canada)

  • Alcan Aluminum Strike (Canada 1995)

  • Detroit Newspaper Strike (13 July 1995—14 February 1997)

  • Liverpool Dockers' Strike (1995–1998)

  • 1995 strikes in France

  • 1996 GEOS Strikes (Japan)

  • 1996–1997 strikes in South Korea

  • 1997 Safeway Strike Canada

  • 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)

  • 1997 Ontario teachers strike (Canada)

  • 1998 Australian waterfront dispute

  • 1999 Vieques Strikes

  • 1999 UNAM strike

Twenty-first century

2000s

  • Verizon Strike (August 2000)

  • Jeffboat wildcat strike (2001, U.S.)

  • National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)

  • Actors Strike 2001

  • UK Firefighter strike 2002

  • Alberta Teachers strike 2002[6]

  • University of California strikes (2003, U.S.)

  • Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike (2003)

  • 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike (US)

  • Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003–2004 (U.S)

  • 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)

  • 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball strike

  • 2004–05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)

  • Bolivian Gas War (2005)

  • 2005 Lakeside Packers Strike (Canada)

  • 2005 New York City transit strike

  • 2005 UPR strike (Puerto Rico)

  • Dhaka strikes (2006, Bangladesh)

  • 2006 USW Strike (U.S. and Canada)

  • 2006 AK Steel Strike (U.S.)

  • 2006 labor protests in France

  • 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)

  • 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)

  • South Korean railroad strike of 2006

  • 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike (Canada)

  • University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)

  • 2006–2007 Palace Casino Strike (Canada)

  • 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike (U.S.)

  • 2007 South African public servants' strike

  • 2007 Orange County transit strike (U.S.)

  • Hayward teachers strike (2007, U.S.)

  • 2007 General Motors strike (U.S.)

  • 2007 Chrysler Autoworkers strike (U.S.)

  • 2007 UK postal strikes

  • 2007 St. Petersburg Ford Motors Strike (Russia)

  • 2007 United Space Alliance strike (U.S.)[7]

  • 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike (U.S)

  • SEMCO Energy Gas Company Strike (2007, U.S.)

  • Port of Napier Strike (2007, New Zealand)

  • November 2007 strikes in France

  • German national rail strike of 2007

  • 2007-Pantex Security Guards Strike

  • 2007 South Africa miners' strike

  • 2007–2008 Cork players strike

  • 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)

  • 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike (Japan)[8]

  • 2008 Puerto Rico Teacher's Federation strike

  • 2008 British teacher's strike

  • 2008 Scottish Borders Council strike

  • 2008 University of California strike (U.S.)

  • 2008 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. strike (U.S.)

  • 2008 Sundance Kabuki Cinema Sex in the City strike (U.S.)

  • United Kingdom council workers' strike (2008, U.K.)

  • 2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike (Canada)

  • 2008 Spanish truckers strike[9]

  • 2008 First Group bus strike (U.K.)

  • 2008 Sri Lankan train strike (Sri Lanka)

  • 2008 Indian communication workers' strike (India)

  • 2008 VIVA bus operators strike (Canada)

  • 2008 Bollywood strike[10]

  • 2008 Timmins Ont. "Met" Site strike (October)

  • Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008[11]

  • 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes

  • 2008–09 York University Strike (Canada)

  • 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (Canada) [12]

  • Via Rail strike (Canada)

  • Art Strike Biennial, Alytus, August 2009

  • 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike

  • 2009 UK postal strikes

  • 2009 McMaster University Strike (Canada)

2010s

  • 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike

  • 2010 The Cast of Jersey Shore

  • 2010 Scottish football referee strike

  • 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike

  • 2010 Spirit Airlines Pilot Strike (USA)

  • 2011 NBA Lockout later resumed in December

  • 2011 Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Local#6094

  • 2011 Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Strike (Canada)

  • 2011 Saskatchewan Teachers Federation Strike (Canada) [13]

  • 2011 Czech transport strike (Czech Republic)

  • 2011 Verizon workers strike (United States)

  • 2011 Australian Community and Public Sector Union quarantine workers strike (Australia)[14]

  • 2011 Brandon University Faculty Association (Manitoba, Canada)

  • 2011-2012 York Region Transit strike [2]

  • 2012 Chicago teachers' strike

  • 2012 Bakers Union Strike - Forced the liquidation of the Hostess Brand.

  • 2012 New England Healthcare Employees Union - HealthBridge strike [15]

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