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In early May 1972, building trades workers would strike in demand for the eight hour day. A few days later, furniture makers would join the strike. Aided by this time of the year being the busy season of the trades, employers gave into demands quickly, spurring more workers to join the general strike. By May 25, 20,000 were reported on strike. [6]
The 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government of the United Kingdom. Miners' wages had not kept pace with those of other industrial workers since 1960.
The first large-scale strike to occur during Striketober was the 2021 Kellogg's strike, with about 1,400 beginning their strike on October 4. [8] BCTGM workers employed by Kellogg's disagreed with the employee benefits presented in a new labor contract. [ 18 ]
Pinkerton agents escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884 Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Don't Scab". A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.
The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The strike began in New York City and spread to some other cities in the following two weeks. This strike against the federal government, regarded as illegal, was the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history. [1]
Many federal public sector workers in Canada are represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) trade union, the largest federal public sector union.. In the 1984 Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada led by Brian Mulroney won a majority in the federal House of Commons, and would be re-elected with a second majority in 1988.
The Salad Bowl strike [1] was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. [2] The strike was led by the United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters .
The strike was almost universally observed in South Wales, Yorkshire, Scotland, North East England and Kent, but there was less support across the Midlands and in North Wales. Nottinghamshire became a target for aggressive and sometimes violent picketing as Scargill's pickets tried to stop local miners from working.