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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 ...
Great Railroad Strike: 1877 nationwide +100,000 1902 Anthracite coal strike: 1902 Pennsylvania: 100,000's [44]: 82 1918-20 New York City rent strikes: 1918-20 New York City: 100,000 [12] 1947 Iowa one-day general strike: 1947 Iowa: 100,000 [45] 1872 New York City Eight Hour Day Strike: 1872 New York City: 100,000 [46] 1973 Chicago construction ...
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 ...
Railroad, then general Strike up to about 18 1877 St. Louis general strike part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The first general strike in the United States was ended when 3000 federal troops and 5000 deputized police had killed at least 18 people in skirmishes around the city. July 23, 1877 Reading, PA Railroad Strike 10
A strike by members of Unite at Network Rail will not go ahead after they voted to accept the offer. Network Rail had offered a 5% pay rise for this year – backdated to January – with another ...
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 ...
16 October – United States – An excursion train of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad stalled on the mainline near West Fork, Arkansas; the crew of the locomotive sent to help the train did not have its precise location and ran into the stalled train's locomotive after rounding a curve. 44 people were injured, five critically. [264] [265]
1917 Australian general strike; 1926 Sierra Leone railway strike; 1927 Adana Railway Strike; 1948 Queensland railway strike; June 1976 protests; 1995 strikes in France; 2006 South Korean railroad strike; 2006 youth protests in France; 2007 German national rail strike; 2013 railroad strike in South Korea; 2019 railway strike in Sri Lanka