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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 ...
2000 L.A. County Workers Strike: 2000 California: 47,000 [5] 1967 New York City teachers strike: 1967 New York City: 47,000 [3] 1956 US Glass strike: 1956 46,000 [20] 1968 East & Gulf Coast Stevedoring strike: 1968 East & Gulf Coast: 46,000 [73] [43] 2011 Verizon Strike: 2011 nationwide 45,800 [28] 1969 Bituminous coal strike: 1969 45,000 [48 ...
Fleischer Studios strike; 1937 New York City department store strikes; Pennsylvania chocolate workers' strike, 1937; Stockton cannery strike of 1937; 1938 [12] 688,000 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike; 1938 New York City truckers strike; 1939 [13] 1,171,000 Tool and die strike of 1939; Chrysler Auto Strike; 1940 [14] 576,988 1941 [15 ...
Products manufactured in Oklahoma and exported overseas could be affected by the dockworker strike.
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Letcher and Perry Counties, Kentucky Coal Strike at least three A United Mine Workers strike called on March 9 grew violent as the union used mass picketing tactics, and launched assaults against tipples using dynamite and arson. Firefights were common. At least three strikers were killed. [142] August 24, 1974 Harlan County, KY Coal mining ...
Echoing West Virginia teachers grievances for more pay and more staff, Oklahoma teachers and a newly formed group "Oklahoma Teacher Walkout - The Time Is Now!" are calling for the state's 41,000 ...
The first seven counties were later renamed. The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention named all of the counties that were formed when Oklahoma entered statehood in 1907. Only two counties have been formed since then. [2] Upon statehood, all Oklahoma counties allowed civil townships within their counties. A few years after statehood, a ...