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The 1835 Philadelphia general strike took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first general strike in North America and involved some 20,000 workers who struck for a ten-hour workday and increased wages. The strike ended in workers successfully negotiating for and securing both. [1]
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 ...
2018 University of California Medical Centers Strike; Marriott Hotels strike; 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike; 2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike; 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike; 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike; 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States; 2019 425,500 2019 General Electric strike ...
Memphis sanitation strike: 1968 Memphis, Tennessee: 1,300 2021 Allegheny Technologies strike: 2021 Northern United States 1,300 1977 Atlanta sanitation strike: 1977 Atlanta +1,200 Oxnard strike of 1903: 1903 Oxnard, California: 1,200 International Paper strike: 1987 Corinth, New York: 1,100 Tacoma nurses strike 2014: 2014 Tacoma and Lakewood ...
The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [42] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees. With mail service virtually paralyzed in New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, President Nixon declared a state ...
1941 – Philadelphia History Museum dedicated; 1943 – September 6: Frankford Junction train wreck; 1944 – August: Philadelphia transit strike of 1944 [74] 1945 – Philadelphia Northeast Airport opens. 1946 University of Pennsylvania's ENIAC computer introduced. [75] Links women's club founded. [73] 1948 – June: 1948 Republican National ...
1968 Memphis sanitation worker Elmore Nickleberry and his wife Mary enjoy the MLK50 Luminary Awards Concert honoring the 1968 sanitation workers at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Monday ...
On May 29, 1909, a committee of the local AFL affiliate Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America approached officials of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) with demands for an hourly wage of 25 cents for motormen and conductors, the right to buy their uniforms on the open market, limits of workdays to 9 or 10 hours and recognition of the Association.