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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 ...
Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. A headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch read "Traffic Throttled: The Gould System at the Mercy of the Knights of Labor." [2] At the time of the strike, Gould held some 12 percent of all railroad track in the U.S.
1907 New York City rent strike: 1907 New York City: 10,000 Cigar makers' strike of 1877: 1877–1878 New York City: 10,000 idle 1978 New York City newspaper strike: 1978 New York City: 10,000 Thibodaux massacre (Sugar cane workers' strike) 1887 Lafourche Parish, Louisiana: 10,000 Battle of Blair Mountain: 1921 Logan County, West Virginia: 9,000
Trouble arose on Dec. 28, 1955, when members of the Teamsters Local 541 ordered their truck drivers to halt steel deliveries to the job site. The union members were upset that iron workers had ...
On September 14, near the end of the cooling off period, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh hosted negotiations at the Department of Labor between the railroad companies, and unions in an attempt to prevent a strike. [16] The Washington Post reported that Biden was "personally involved in the talks", wanting workers to have more flexibility in ...
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will now press ahead with two 48-hour strikes at Network Rail – and 14 train companies – from Tuesday and Friday.
1962 New York City newspaper strike; 1963 941,000 1964 1,640,000 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1965 1,550,000 1966 1,960,000 1966 New York City transit strike; 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 ...
Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas. At ...