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1943 Pennsylvania Anthracite coal strike: 1943 Eastern Pennsylvania: 70,000 [57] 1972 Chicago builders strike: 1972 Chicago: 70,000 [58] Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004: 2003–2004 Southern California: 70,000 [59] 1951 rail strike: 1951 nationwide 73,000 2007 General Motors strike: 2007 Detroit, Michigan: 72,000 [60]
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 ...
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 Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S.
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] 2,362,620 Disney animators ...
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 Center Square) – Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Deluzio joined Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey to introduce the All Aboard Act, a bill that would invest $200 billion in national railway ...
250,000 railroad engineers and trainmen (May 22–25, 1946) [7] [8] [9] 120,000 miners, rail and steel workers in the Pittsburgh region. (December 1946) [10] Others included strikes of railroad workers and general strikes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Stamford, Connecticut; Rochester, New York; and Oakland, California. In total, 4.3 million ...