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When the employers offered to arbitrate, but only on the condition that the union agree to the open shop, the union struck every West Coast port on May 9, 1934. The strike was a violent one: When strikers attacked the stockade in which the employers were housing strikebreakers in San Pedro, California, on May 15, the employers' private guards ...
1953 California construction strike: 1953 Northern and Central California: 60,000 [3] [64] 1956 East & Gulf Coast longshoremen strike: 1956 East & Gulf Coast: 59,000 [28] 1969 UMW coal strike: 1969 56,200 [24] 1976 Rubber workers strike: 1976 nationwide 56,000 [17] 1958 Chrysler strike: 1958 55,000 [14] 1978 Southern California retail clerks ...
Tacoma nurses strike 2014; 2015 47,300 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike; 2015 Kohler strike; 2016 99,400 2016 Verizon workers' strike; 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike; 2017 25,300 2018 485,200 2018 University of California Medical Centers Strike; Marriott Hotels strike; 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike
"The U.S. port strike has ended, ... California, experienced their busiest month on record in July and August, respectively, handling over 900,000 20-foot equivalent containers each. Officials say ...
Using base estimates from the 2015 West Coast port strikes calculated by the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers, JPMorgan analysts said in a recent note that ...
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), which represents terminal operators from California to Washington state, said union workers in 2023 "effectively shut down" terminals at ports including Los ...
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 ...
Nearly 50,000 union longshoremen walked off the job at midnight Tuesday, shuttering at least 14 major ports across the East and Gulf Coasts that handle nearly half of all U.S. imports. Many ...