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1951 rail strike: 1951 nationwide 73,000 2007 General Motors strike: 2007 Detroit, Michigan: 72,000 [60] 1960 Pennsylvania Railroad Co. strike: 1960 68,000-85,000 New England Textile Strike: 1922 Northeast +67,000 Little Steel strike: 1937 nationwide 67,000 [61] 1980 actors strike: 1980 nationwide (primarily Hollywood) 66,000 [20] 1968 ...
The Scranton general strike was a widespread work stoppage in 1877 by workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which took place as part of the Great Railroad Strike, and was the last in a number of violent outbreaks across Pennsylvania. [1] The strike began on July 23 when railroad workers walked off the job in protest of recent wage cuts, and within ...
The strike took place during the construction of the Center City Commuter Connection, a rail tunnel designed to improve the commuter rail system in Center City, and, more generally, during a time when SEPTA was working with public transit planner Vukan R. Vuchic of the University of Pennsylvania on a number of reforms designed to improve the ...
The Great Strikes of 1877, University of Illinois Press, 2008; Stowell, David O. "Albany’s Great Strike of 1877." New York History 76#1, 1995, pp. 31–55. JSTOR 23182536; Walker, Samuel C. "Railroad Strike of 1877 in Altoona." Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, no. 117, 1967, pp. 18–25. in Altoona, Pennsylvania JSTOR 43520401
Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US truckers strike; November 1967 General Motors strike; 1967 Caterpillar strike; September 1967 General Motors strike; 1968 2,649,000 New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968; Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968; Chrysler ...
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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 ...
Railroad Strike occurred. [41] 1946 (United States) Steel Strike of 1946 occurred. [41] 1 April 1946 (United States) A strike by 400,000 mine workers in the U.S. began. U.S. troops seized railroads and coal mines the following month. [41] 4 October 1946 (United States) The U.S. Navy seized oil refineries in order to break a 20-state post-war ...