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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 Pittsburgh railway strike occurred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It was one of many incidents of strikes, labor unrest and violence in cities across the United States, including several in Pennsylvania. Other cities dealing with similar unrest included Philadelphia, Reading, Shamokin and Scranton.
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
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 ...
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 ...
Two of the largest remaining railroads, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central, merged in 1968 to form the Penn Central. At the insistence of the ICC the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was added to the merger in 1969; in 1970 the Penn Central declared bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history until then.
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 ...
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 ...