List of strikes around the World

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The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work in an attempt to change their conditions in a particular industry or individual workplace, or in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).

Contents

 

• 1Chronological list of strikes
  • 1.1Seventeenth century
  • 1.2Eighteenth century
  • 1.3Nineteenth century
    • 1.3.11800–1849
    • 1.3.21850–1899
  • 1.4Twentieth century
    • 1.4.11900s
    • 1.4.21910s
    • 1.4.31920s
    • 1.4.41930s
    • 1.4.51940s
    • 1.4.61950s
    • 1.4.71960s
    • 1.4.81970s
    • 1.4.91980s
    • 1.4.101990s
  • 1.5Twenty-first century
    • 1.5.12000s
    • 1.5.22010s
• 2Chronological list of general strikes
• 3See also
• 4Sources
• 5External links

Chronological list of strikes[edit]

Seventeenth century[edit]

Date
Strike
Location

1619
Polish craftsmen strike
Jamestown, Virginia colony

1636
Indentured Servants’ and Fisherman’s Mutiny
Province of Maine

1661
Virginia’s Indentured Servants’ Plot
Virginia colony

1684
New York City Carters’ Strike
Province of New York

Eighteenth century[edit]

Date
Strike
Location

1741
New York City Bakers’ Strike
New York City, Province of New York

1763
Charleston Chimney Sweepers’ Strike
Charleston, Province of Carolina

1766
Real del Monte Silver Miners’ Strike
Mineral del Monte, Mexico

1768
Florida Indentured Servants’ Revolt
East Florida

1768
New York City Tailors’ Strike
New York City, Province of New York

1774
Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike
Hibernia, Province of New Jersey

1786
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Printers Strike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1787
Calton Weavers Strike
Calton, Glasgow, Scotland

1791
Philadelphia Carpenters – First Strike in the U.S. building trades
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1792
Philadelphia River Pilots’ Strike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1793
Wroclaw Tailors’ Strike
Wrocław, Poland

Nineteenth century[edit]

1800–1849[edit]

Date
Strike
Location

1806
Philadelphia shoemakers’ strike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1824
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

1825
Boston House Carpenters’ Strike
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

1827
Philadelphia Carpenters’ Strike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Cocheco Mills Strike (1828, Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.)
• Paterson, New Jersey, Textile Strike (1828, U.S.)
• Lynn, Massachusetts, Shoebinders’ Protest (1831, U.S.)
• Boston Ship Carpenters’ Ten-hour Strike (1832, U.S.)
• Lynn. Massachusetts, Shoebinders’ Protest (1833, U.S.)
• Manayunk. Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1833, U.S.)
• New York City Carpenters’ Strike (1833, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women’s Strike (1834, U.S.)
• Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1834, U.S.)
• 1835 Boston Carpenters Strike (1835, U.S.)
• 1835 Philadelphia General Strike (1835, U.S.)
• 1835 Paterson Textile Strike (1835, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women’s Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors’ Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Bookbinders’ Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Kashmiri Silk Workers protests on July 6, 1847
• Burra Copper Miners’ Strike (1848, Australia)

1850–1899[edit]

• New York City Tailors’ Strike (1850, U.S.)
• New England Shoemakers’ Strike (1860, U.S.)
• Moonta & Wallaroo Copper Miners’ Strike (1864, Australia)
• Upper Peninsula miners’ strike (1865, U.S.)
• Molders’ Lockout (1866, U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses’ Strike (1869, U.S.)
• Lynn Massachusetts, Shoe Workers’ Strike (1872, U.S.)
• Tompkins Square Riot (1874) (New York, U.S.)
• Coal miners strikes of 1875
• Great Railroad Strike/Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (1877, U.S.) ^[1]
• Cigarmakers’ Strike (1877, U.S.)
• Cohoes New York, Cotton Mill Strike (1882, U.S.)
• Cowboy Strike (1883, U.S.)
• Lynchburg Virginia, Tobacco Workers’ Strike (1883, U.S.)
• Molders’ Lockout (1883, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1884, U.S.)
• Union Pacific Railroad Strike (1884, U.S.)
• Cloakmakers’ General Strike (1885, U.S.)
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Southwest Railroad Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Yonkers New York, Carpet Weavers’ Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Augusta Georgia, Textile Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Cowboy Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Eight-Hour Strikes (1886, U.S.)
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 (U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses’ Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Haymarket Affair (1886, U.S.)
• Bay View Tragedy (1886, U.S.)
• Port of New York, Longshoremens’ Strike (1887, U.S.)
• Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Sugar Cane Workers Strike (1887, U.S.)
• Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Cincinnati Shoemakers’ Lockout (1888, U.S.)
• London Dock Strike of 1889 (London, England)
• Baseball Players’ Revolt (1889, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)
• Southampton Dock Strike of 1890 (Southampton, England)
• Carpenters’ Strike for the Eight-Hour Day (1890, U.S.)
• Savanna Georgia, Black Laborers’ Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Tennessee Miners’ Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Homestead Strike (1892, U.S.)
• Buffalo switchmen’s strike (1892, U.S.)
• Coeur d’Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892 (1892, U.S.)
• Printers’ strike (1893, Sri Lanka)
• Coxey’s Army marches on Washington D.C. (1894, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek miners’ strike of 1894 (U.S.)
• Pullman Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Great Northern Railway Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Miners’ Strike of 1894 (U.S.)
• Haverhill Massachusetts Shoe Strike (1895, U.S.)
• Brooklyn, New York Trolley Workers’ Strike (1895, U.S.)
• Leadville Colorado, Miners’ Strike (1896)
• Lattimer Massacre Strike (1897, Pennsylvania)
• Marlboro Massachusetts, Shoe Workers’ Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Welsh coal strike of 1898 (1898, Wales)
• Buffalo New York, Grain Shovellers’ Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Cleveland Ohio, Street Railway Workers’ Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Coeur d’Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899 (1899, U.S.)
• Newsboys Strike of 1899 (New York City, U.S.)
• 1899 Russian student strike (St. Petersburg University, Russia)

Twentieth century[edit]

 

Bodies immediately after the Lena massacre of striking goldfield workers in 1912

1900s[edit]

• Diamond Workers Strike (1900, Amsterdam)
• St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 (1900, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Machinists’ Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Penrhyn Quarry strike (1900) (1900–1903, Wales, UK)
• Australian Workers strike (23rd Jan, 1900, Australia)
• U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)
• Machinists’ Strike (1901, U.S.)
• San Francisco Restaurant Workers’ Strike (1901, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Chicago Teamsters’ Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners’ Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903–1904, U.S.)
• Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.)
• Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)
• Fall River Textile Strike (1904) (July 25, 1904, U.S.)^[2]
• New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Packinghouse Workers’ Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen’s Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Cananea Strike (1906, Sonora, Mexico)
• Music Hall Strike of 1907 (London, UK)^[3]
• Belfast Dock Strike (1907, Ireland)
• Goldfield Nevada, Miners’ Strike (1907, U.S.)
• Río Blanco strike (1907, Mexico)
• San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907 (U.S.)
• Pensacola streetcar operators’ strike (1908, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.)
• New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 «Uprising of the 20,000» (1909, U.S.)
• Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)
• Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, U.S.)
• Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s[edit]

• Cradley Heath female chainmakers’ strike (1910) ^[4]
• 1910 New York Cloakmakers Strike, also known as «The Great Revolt» (1910, U.S.)
• Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–1911 (U.S.)
• Chicago Garment Workers’ Strike of 1910–1911 (U.S.)
• 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)
• Illinois Central shopmen’s strike of 1911 (U.S.)
• 1911 Grand Rapids Furniture Workers (U.S.)
• Lawrence Textile Strike, often known as the Bread and Roses Strike (1912, U.S.)
• 1912 Little Falls textile strike (U.S.)
• Waihi miners’ strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)
• Louisiana Timber Workers’ Strike (1912, U.S.)
• Muscatine Button Workers’ Strike
• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 (U.S.)
• Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)
• Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 (1913–14, U.S.)
• Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Paterson silk strike (1913, U.S.)
• 1913 New York City hotel workers’ strike (U.S.)
• 1913 Great Strike (1913, New Zealand)
• Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913 (U.S.)
• 1913 Detroit automobile strike (U.S.)
• Burston Strike School (1914–1939, UK)
• 1915 Chicago Garment Workers’ Strike (U.S.)
• Bayonne refinery strikes (1915 and 1916, U.S.)
• Mesabi Range miners’ strike (1916, U.S.)
• BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)
• Police officers’ strike, (1918–19, UK)
• Coal strike (1919, U.S.)
• Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)
• 1919 Actors’ Equity Association strike
• Battle of George Square (1919, UK)
• La Canadiense Strike, (1919, Catalonia, Spain)
• Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)

1920s[edit]

• Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)
• Denver streetcar strike of 1920 (1920, U.S.)
• 1920 Alabama coal strike (1920, U.S.)
• Clothing Workers’ Lockout (1920, U.S.)
• Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (1920, U.S.)
• Kronstadt Rebellion (1921, U.S.S.R.)
• Battle of Blair Mountain (1921, U.S.)
• Seamen’s Strike (1921, U.S.)
• Black Friday (1921) (UK)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (U.S.)
• Herrin massacre (1922, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Railroad Shopmen’s Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Portland Waterfront Strikes (1922, U.S.)
• General strike of 1923 (Sri Lanka)
• 1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)
• Hanapepe massacre (1924, U.S.)
• Kashmiri Silk Workers 3rd Strike 1924
• National builders’ strike (UK, 1924)
• National dock strike (UK, 1924)
• Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)
• Stripa Labour Conflict (Sweden, 1925)
• Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)
• 1926 United Kingdom general strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)
• Columbine Mine Massacre Strike (1927, U.S.)
• New Bedford Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1928, U.S.)
• Banana massacre (1928, Colombia)
• Tramway strike (1929, Sri Lanka)
• 1929 Timber Workers strike (Australia)
• Lupeni Strike of 1929 (Romania)
• Rothbury Riot (1929, Australia)
• Loray Mill Strike (Gastonia, North Carolina, Textile Strike) (1929, U.S.)

1930s[edit]

• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers’ Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Tampa cigar makers’ strike (1931, U.S.)
• Santa Clara Cannery Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)
• Harlan County War, Harlan County, Kentucky (1931, U.S.)
• Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)
• California Pea Pickers’ Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Century Airlines pilots’ strike (1932, U.S.)
• Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)
• Vacaville California, Tree Pruners’ Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)
• Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)
• California Farmworkers’ Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)
• New Mexico Miners’ Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)
• Kohler Strike, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1934, U.S.)
• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers’ Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.)
• Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)
• 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)
• Rubber Workers’ Strike (1934, U.S.)
• United Fruit Banana Strike (1934, Costa Rica)
• Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)
• NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Asturian miners’ strike of 1934 (Spain)
• General Strike (1934, Portugal)
• General Strike (1934, Medellin, Colombia)
• Osaka Kikai Kosakujo Strike (1934, Osaka, Japan)
• Kylindromyloi Euangelistria Strike (1934, Kalamai, Greece)
• Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935, Canada)
• Copperbelt strike (1935) (Zambia)
• Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers’ strike (1935, U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)
• On-to-Ottawa Trek (1935)
• Southern Sharecroppers’ and Farm Laborers’ Strike (1935, U.S.)
• 1936 Syrian general strike (1936, Syria)
• Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers’ Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seafarer’s Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Rubber Workers’ Strike (1936, U.S.)
• S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)
• Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 (U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936–1937, U.S.)
• Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers’ Strike (1937, U.S.)
• Little Steel Strike including Memorial Day massacre of 1937 (U.S.)
• Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Strike (1937, Maine, U.S.)
• Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Hilo Massacre (1938, Territory of Hawaii)
• Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)
• Tool and Die Strike of 1939 (1939, U.S.)
• Ford Motor Strike (1939, U.S.)
• Disney animators’ strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s[edit]

• Downeys strike, the longest strike (March 1939 to November 1953, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland)^[5]
• Mooloya estate strike wave (1940, Sri Lanka)
• Allis-Chalmers Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Captive Coal Miners’ Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1941, U.S.)
• February Strike (1941, Netherlands)
• International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)
• New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)
• North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Quit India movement (1942, India)
• 1942-43 musicians’ strike (U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)
• Hollywood Black Friday (U.S.)
• Philadelphia Transit Strike (1944, U.S.)
• Port Chicago mutiny (1944, U.S.)
• Kelsey-Hayes Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Strike wave of 1946 (1945-1946, U.S.)
• New York City Longshoreman’s Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Montgomery Ward Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Oil Workers’ Strike (1945, U.S.)
• 1945 Swedish Metal Workers’ Strike
• African Mine Workers’ Strike (1946, South Africa)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)
• General Motors’ Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Montreal Cotton Strike (1946, Quebec, Canada)
• Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Queensland meat industry strike (1946, Australia)
• Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)
• The Great Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946 (Territory of Hawaii)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Longshore Strike (1948, U.S.)
• Boeing Strike of 1948
• 1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)
• Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada
• 1949 Australian coal strike (1949)
• Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)
• Carlyle Teachers Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s[edit]

• Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)
• «Salt of the Earth» Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)
• General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
• New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)
• 1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)
• Louisiana Sugarcane Workers’ Strike (1953, U.S.)
• The Hartal of 1953 (1953, Sri Lanka)
• Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)
• UNITE Strike (1955, U.S.)
• Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)
• The 1955 A.S.L.E.F. National Rail Strike (U.K) ^[6][7]
• East Coast Longshoreman’s Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)
• Musicians Union strike (1958, U.S.)
• Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

1960s[edit]

• General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)
• Seamen’s Strike (1960, U.S.)
• 1960 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1960–1961 Winter General Strike (Wallonia)
• 1962 New York City newspaper strike (1962, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman’s Strike (1962, U.S.)
• Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)
• 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike (1964–5, Australia)
• Delano grape strike (1965–1970, U.S.)
• 1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)
• Gurindji strike (1966, Australia)
• St. John’s University strike of 1966–67 (U.S.)
• Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots
• San Francisco Nurses Strike managed by the California Nurses Association 1966^[8]
• Railroad machinists’ strike of 1967 (U.S.)
• Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)
• United Auto Workers strike of General Motors 1961 (U.S.)
• Unofficial strikes by London dockers and meatpackers to protest at sacking of Enoch Powell from the Conservative Party‘s frontbench (April 1968).^[9]
• May 1968 in France
• Memphis Sanitation Strike (1968, U.S.)
• Chrysler wildcat strike (1968, U.S.)
• New York City Teacher’s Strike of 1968 (U.S.)
• Florida statewide teachers’ strike of 1968 (U.S.)
• Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers’ Strike (1969, U.S.)
• The National Rail Strike of June 24, 1968 (U.K.) ^[10]
• Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot
• The President National Strike (1969, US)
• Unofficial strike by mineworkers over pay of surface workers (1969, UK)^[11]

1970s[edit]

• Colour Strike (1970–1971, UK)
• Strike at Pilkington glass works in St. Helens, UK (1970).^[12] Inspired the film The Rank and File.
• National Student Campus Strike (1970, U.S.)also related to Kent State Shootings (May, 1970, U.S.)
• Salad Bowl strike (1970–1971, U.S.)
• U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees
• General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)
• New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)
• Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.)
• 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike (1971, UK)
• Farrah Clothing Workers’ Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)
• Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers’ Strike (1972, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Teachers’ Strike (1972, U.S.)
• 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• UK building workers’ strike (1972)
• UK miners’ strike (1972) (UK)
  • Solidarity strike by the Birmingham area of the AUEW (engineers union), at the Battle of Saltley Gate
• 1974 railway strike in India by 17 million workers of Indian Railways in 1974 (India)^{[13][14][15][16]}
• 1974 Washington Bus Strike
• 1974 Baltimore teacher’s strike, municipal workers’ strike, and police strike (U.S.)
• 1974 UPR strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)
• Ulster Workers’ Council Strike (1974, UK)
• UK miners’ strike (1974) (UK)
• Washington Post Pressmen’s Strike (1975, U.S.)^[17]
• Musician’s Union Strike (1975, U.S.)
• Japan National Railway Workers Union seven-days strike (1975, Japan)
• Grunwick Dispute (1976–1977) London
• Atlanta Sanitation Workers’ Strike (1977, U.S.)^[18]
• Coors Beer Strike and Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• J.P. Stevens Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• Willmar Minnesota, Bank Workers’ Strike (1977, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977–1978 (U.S.)
• Norfolk & Western Railroad, Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (1978, U.S.)
• Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike (1978, U.S.)
• 1978 New York City newspaper strike
• Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)
• Winter of Discontent (1978–1979, UK)
• Independent Truckers’ Strike (1979, U.S.)
• Art Strike 1977–1980
• 1979 ITV strike
• 1979 (June) ILWA 10-day contract strike, British Columbia, Canada^[19]
• Mexicana Airline strike (Huelga Aérea de Mexicana) (November 1–26, 1979, Mexico)^[20]

1980s[edit]

• 1980 General strike, Sri Lanka
• 1980 British Steel strike by the Iron & Steel Trades Confederation and the National Union of Blastfurnacemen (January – April 1980)^[21]
• 1980 Swedish labour conflict
• 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)
• 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)
• Air traffic controllers’ strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981, U.S.)
• Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)
• 1981 UPR strike
• 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• NHS strike (1982. UK)^[22]
  • Solidarity strike by mineworkers in South Wales^[22]
• 1982 garment workers’ strike (U.S.)^[23]
• Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers’ Strike (1984, U.S.)
• Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)
• UK miners’ strike (1984–1985)
• Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation (1984, UK)
• Hormel Meatpackers’ Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers’ Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Mudginberri dispute (1985, Northern Territory, Australia)
• 1985 New York hotel workers strike ^[24]
• Yale University Clerical Workers’ Strike (1985, U.S.)^[25]
• Silentnight Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union strike at Barnoldswick (1985-1987, UK)^[26]
• Chicago Tribune Strike (1986, U.S.)
• Dollar Sweets dispute (1986, Australia)
• Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers’ strike (1986, U.S.)
• Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants’ Strike (1986, U.S.)
• United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Major Indoor Soccer League Lockout two-week lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Wapping dispute (1986, UK)
• Philadelphia Sanitary Workers’ Strike (1986, U.S.)
• ILWU Contract Strike (1986, British Columbia, Canada)
• Bollywood Strike (1987, India)
• The Great Workers’ Struggle (1987, South Korea)
• International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)
• Professional Football Players’ Strike (1987, U.S.)
• 1987 NFL strike (U.S.)
• National Broadcasting Company Employees Strike (1987, U.S.)
• Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher’s Strike (1987, Canada)
• 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike
• 1988 VSEL Barrow in Furness strike (UK)
• 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1989 Australian pilots’ strike
• Eastern Airline Workers’ Strike (1989, U.S.)
• Bell Atlantic Strike (August 1989)
• Nynex Strike (August 1989) lasted 4 months
• Pittston Coal strike (1989–90, U.S.)

1990s[edit]

• A.E.Staley/Tate & Lyle Dispute and Lockout and Caterpillar Strike (U.S., 1990-1995)
• Greyhound Bus Strike of 1990 (U.S.)
• Art Strike 1990–1993
• 1990 Major League Baseball strike
• Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)
• West Virginia Teachers’ Strike of 1990 (U.S., March 7–17, 1990)
• Giant Mine Strike 1992 Canada, 18 months long, nine men murdered
• 1992 NHL strike (U.S., Canada)
• Timex strike (1993)
• Alaska Airlines flight attendant strike CHAOS (1993)
• 1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S., Canada)
• 1994–95 NHL lockout
• Alcan Aluminum Strike (Canada 1995)
• Detroit Newspaper Strike (13 July 1995 – 14 February 1997)
• Liverpool Dockers’ Strike (1995–1998)
• 1995 strikes in France
• 1995 NBA lockout
• 1996 GEOS Strikes (Japan)
• 1996–1997 strikes in South Korea
• 1996 NBA lockout
• 1997 Safeway Strike (Canada)
• 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)
• 1997 Ontario teachers strike (Canada)
• 1998 Australian waterfront dispute
• 1998–99 NBA lockout
• 1999 Vieques Strikes
• 1999 UNAM strike

Twenty-first century[edit]

2000s[edit]

• Verizon Strike (August 2000)
• Jeffboat wildcat strike (2001, U.S.)
• National Gallery of Canada 9-week strike (2001, Canada)
• Actors Strike 2001
• 2001 NFL referee lockout
• UK Firefighter strike 2002
• Euzkadi Strike (2002–2005, Mexico)
• Alberta Teachers strike 2002^[27]
• University of California strikes (2003, U.S.)
• Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike (2003)
• 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike (U.S.)
• 2003 June 15 Hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel.^[28]
• Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003–2004 (U.S)
• 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)
• 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball strike
• 2004–05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)
• Bolivian Gas War (2005)
• 2005 Lakeside Packers Strike (Canada)
• 2005 New York City transit strike
• 2005 University of Puerto Rico strike (Puerto Rico, U.S.)
• Dhaka strikes (2006, Bangladesh)
• 2006 United Steelworkers strike (U.S. and Canada)
• 2006 AK Steel Strike (U.S.)
• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)
• 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)
• South Korean railroad strike of 2006
• 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike (Canada)
• University of Miami 2006 custodial workers’ strike (U.S.)
• 2006–2007 Palace Casino Strike (Canada)
• 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike (U.S.)
• 2007 South African public servants’ strike
• 2007 Orange County transit strike (U.S.)
• Hayward teachers strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 General Motors strike (U.S.)
• 2007 Chrysler Autoworkers strike (U.S.)
• 2007 UK postal strikes
• 2007 St. Petersburg Ford Motors Strike (Russia)^[29]
• 2007 United Space Alliance strike (U.S.)^[30]
• 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike (U.S)
• SEMCO Energy Gas Company Strike (2007, U.S.)
• Port of Napier Strike (2007, New Zealand)
• November 2007 strikes in France
• German national rail strike of 2007
• 2007 Pantex Security Guards Strike
• 2007 South Africa miners’ strike
• 2007–2008 Cork players strike
• 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 2007–08 CBS News writers strike
• 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike (Japan)^[31]
• 2008 Puerto Rico Teacher’s Federation strike
• 2008 British teacher’s strike
• 2008 Scottish Borders Council strike
• 2008 University of California strike (U.S.)
• 2008 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. strike (U.S.)
• 2008 Sundance Kabuki Cinema Sex in the City strike (U.S.)
• United Kingdom council workers’ strike (2008, UK)
• 2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike (Canada)
• 2008 Spanish truckers strike^[32]
• 2008 First Group bus strike (UK)
• 2008 Sri Lankan train strike (Sri Lanka)
• 2008 Indian communication workers’ strike (India)
• 2008 VIVA bus operators strike (Canada)
• 2008 Bollywood strike^[33]
• 2008 Timmins Ont. «Met» Site strike (October)
• Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008^[34]
• 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes
• 2008–09 York University Strike (Canada)
• 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (Canada) ^[35]
• Via Rail strike (Canada)
• Art Strike Biennial, Alytus, Lithuania, August 2009
• 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike
• 2009 UK postal strikes
• 2009 McMaster University Strike (Canada)

2010s[edit]

• 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike
• 2010 Scottish football referee strike
• 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike
• 2010 Italian national transport strike ^[36]
• 2010 Spirit Airlines Pilot Strike (U.S.)
• 2010 Major League Soccer lockout/strike
• 2011 NBA Lockout later resumed in December
• 2011 NFL lockout
• 2011 Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Local#6094
• 2011 Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Strike (Canada)
• 2011 Saskatchewan Teachers Federation Strike (Canada)^[37]
• 2011 Czech transport strike (Czech Republic)
• 2011 Verizon workers strike (United States)
• 2011 public-sector strikes over pension reform (June 2011, United Kingdom)^[38]
• 2011 Australian Community and Public Sector Union quarantine workers strike (Australia)^[39]
• 2011 Brandon University Faculty Association (Manitoba, Canada)
• 2011–2012 York Region Transit strike^[40]
• 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike
• 2012 Bakers Union Strike, forced the liquidation of the Hostess Brand.
• 2012 NFL referee lockout
• 2012 New England Healthcare Employees Union – HealthBridge strike^[41]
• 2012 English Doctors on 24-hour strike^[42]
• 2012–13 NHL lockout
• 2013 Hong Kong dock strike
• 2013 The world’s longest strike ended by the hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago^[28]
• 2014 Aer Lingus cabin crew 24-hour strike^[43]
• 2014 London rail workers strike of 21 April.^[44]
• 2014 Reynoldsburg Education Association, Reynoldsburg, Ohio^[45]
• 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike ^[46]
• 2015 British national rail strike of 21 May.^[47][48]
• 2015 London underground strike of 9 July.^[49]
• 2015 York University Teaching Assistant, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant and Contract Faculty Strike ^[50]
• 2015 Shell Oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas ^[51]
• 2015 London underground strike of 6 August.^[52]
• 2015 Public-sector, air travel, retail, and transport strikes throughout Finland on September 18^[53]
• 2015 WCAU Photographers and Camera Operators Strike
• 2015 Kohler Strike^[54]
• 2016 Jewelers strike in India against of excise duty
• 2016 Verizon workers’ strike^[55]
• 2016 China Airlines labor unions
• 2016 Southern Rail strike in England^[56]

Chronological list of general strikes[edit]

Date
Name
Location

1820
Radical War
Scotland

1842
1842 General Strike
England

1877
1877 St. Louis general strike
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

1886
Walloon jacquerie of 1886
Wallonia

1887
1887 sugar cane workers
St. Mary, Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, Louisiana, United States

1892
1892 New Orleans general strike
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

1893
Belgian general strike of 1893
Mons, Belgium

1909
Swedish general strike
Sweden

1910
Philadelphia general strike
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1912
1912 Brisbane general strike
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1918
Vancouver general strike
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1919
Seattle General Strike
Seattle, Washington, United States

1919
Winnipeg general strike
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

1919
Canadian Labour Revolt
Major cities across Canada, ran parallel to the Winnipeg general strike

1920
Italian anti-Fascist general strike
Italy

1920
December general strike (one week)
Czechoslovakia

1926
1926 United Kingdom general strike
United Kingdom

1933
French general strike of 1933
France

1934
San Francisco general strike of 1934
San Francisco, California, United States

1936
Palestinian general strike
Palestine

1942
1942 Luxembourgish general strike
Luxembourg

1946
1946 Oakland general strike
Oakland, California, United States

1950
General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
Belgium/Congo Free State

1953
Uprising of 1953
East Germany

1956
General strike of 1956
Finland

1960–61
Belgian general strike of 1960–61
Wallonia, Belgium

1968
French general strike of May 1968
France

1973
Uruguay general strike of 1973
Uruguay

1974
Ulster Workers’ Council strike
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

1976
«National Day of Protest» general strike
Canada

1988
Spanish general strike of 1988
Spain

1989
Czechoslovak general strike of 1989 (2 hours)
Czechoslovakia

1991
UPS general strike for better wages and job opportunities
United States

1992
April 1992 general strike in Nepal
Nepal

1998
1998 Puerto Rican general strike
Puerto Rico

2002–2003
Venezuelan general strike of 2002–03
Venezuela

2006
2006 democracy movement in Nepal
Nepal

2007
2007 Guinea general strike
Guinea

2008
2008 Egyptian general strike
Egypt

2011
2011 Oakland general strike
Oakland, California, United States

2012
2012 USA May Day general strike
United States

2013
2013 protests in Brazil
Brazil

2016
Indian general strike of 2016
India

See also[edit]

• Organized labour portal

• Timeline of Labor unions in the United States
• Murder of workers in labor disputes in the United States

Sources[edit]

Labor conflict in the United States, An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly – Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN 0-8240-7968-X)

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External links[edit]

• Chronology of general strikes
• List of labor events in U.S. history
• Recent strikes and other labour news
• Strike! Famous Worker Uprisings – slideshow by Life magazine
• The Long War at Staley

 

 

Child Labor in American coal mines, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1906