List of strikes

The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).

=Chronological list of strikes=

eventeenth Century

*Strike of polish craftmen in Jamestown (1619, British colonies)
*Maine indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny (1636, Maine, British colonies)
*Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot (1661, Virginia, British colonies)
*Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike (1663, Maryland, British colonies)
*Boston ship Carpenter's Protest (1675, Massachusetts, British colonies)
*Bacon's Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British colonies)
*New York City Carters' Strike (1677, New York, British colonies)
*New York City Carters' Strike (1684, New York, British colonies)

Eighteenth Century

*New York City Bakers' Strike (1741, New York, British colonies)
*Florida Indentured Servants' Revolt (1768, Florida, British colonies)
*New York City Tailors' Strike (1768, New York, British colonies)
*Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike (1774, New Jersey, British colonies)
*Philadelphia Carpenters - First Strike in the U.S. building trades (1791, U.S.)
*Philadelphia River Pilots' Strike (1792, U.S.)

Nineteenth century

*Philadelphia shoemakers guilty of criminal conspiracy after striking for higher wages (1806, U.S.)
*Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike (1824, U.S.)
*Boston House Carpenters' Strike (1825, U.S.)
*Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike (1827, 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.)
*Paterson New Jersey, 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.)
*New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)
*New England Shoemakers' Strike (1860, U.S.)
*Molders' Lockout (1866, U.S.)
*Sheffield Outrages (1860s, UK)
*Anthracite Coal Strike (1868, 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 (1877, U.S.)
*Cigarmakers' Strike (1877, U.S.)
*Sundsvall strike (1879, Sweden)
*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.)
*Southwest Railroad Strike (1886, U.S.)
*Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1886, U.S.)
*Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 (U.S.)
*Haymarket Affair (1886, U.S.)
*Bay View Tragedy (1886, U.S.)
*Port of New York, Longshoremens' Strike (1887, U.S.)
*Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)
*Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout (1888, U.S.)
*Matchgirls Strike (1888, London)
*London Dock Strike of 1889
*Baseball Players' Revolt (1889, U.S.)
*Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)
*1890 Australian Maritime Dispute
*Southampton Dock Strike of 1890 (UK)
*Carpenters' Strike for the Eight-Hour Day (1890, U.S.)
*1891 Australian shearers' strike
*Savanna Georgia, Black Laborers' Strike (1891, U.S.)
*Tennessee Miners' Strike (1891, U.S.)
*Homestead Strike (1892, U.S.) gains national attention
*Buffalo switchmen's strike (1892, U.S.)
*Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1892, U.S.)
*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 Railroad Strike (1894, U.S.)
*Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike (1894) Birmingham, Alabama
*Haverhill Massachusetts Shoe 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 Miners' Strike (1899, U.S.)
*Newsboys Strike of 1899 (New York City, U.S.)

20th century

1900s

*Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
*Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)
*Penrhyn Quarry lock-out (1900-1903, Wales)
*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.)
*New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike 991904, U.S.)
*Packinghouse Workers' Strike (1904, U.S.)
*Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1904, U.S.)
*Cananea Strike (1905, Sonora, Mexico)
*Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907 U.S.)
*Río Blanco Strike (1907 Mexico)
*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.)
*McKees Rocks Pennsylvania, Steel Strike (1909, U.S.)
*Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)
*1909 Swedish General Strike

1910s

* Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911 (U.S.)
* 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)
* Lawrence textile strike, often known as the Bread and Roses strike (1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts)
* Waihi miners' strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)
* Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)
* West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913 (U.S.)
* Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)
* Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, Colorado)
* Paterson silk strike (1913, Paterson, New Jersey)
* 1913 Great Strike (1913, New Zealand)
* Burston Strike School (1914-1939, UK)
* BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)
* Vancouver general strike (1918, Canada)
* Police officers' strike, (1918-19) United Kingdom
* Centralia Massacre (Washington) (1919, U.S.)
* Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)
* 1919 Battle of George Square (UK)
* Seattle General Strike of 1919
* Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)
* Winnipeg General Strike (1919, Canada)

1920s

*Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)
*Alabama Miners' Strike (1920, U.S.)
*Clothing Workers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)
*Italian, Anti-Fascist General Strike (1920, Feb., Italy)
*West Virginia Coal Wars (1920-21, U.S.)
*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.)
*1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)
*Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)
*Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)
*Stripa Labour Conflict (Sweden, 1925)
*Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)
*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)
*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

*Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)
*Tampa Florida, Cigar Workers' Strike (1931, U.S.)
*Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)
*Battle of Evarts, Harlan County Mining Strike (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.)
*Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
*Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)
*Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
*Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)
*1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)
*NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)
*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.)
*Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
*Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)
*General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
*RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)
*Seamens' 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.)
*Memorial Day massacre of 1937 "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)
*Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)
*Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)
*Hilo Hawaii Massacre (1938, U.S.)
*Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)
*General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s

*Ford Motor Strike (1940, U.S.)
*Disney animators' strike (1941, U.S.)
*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.)
*1942 Luxembourg General Strike (1942, Luxembourg)
*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.)
*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
*Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)
*Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)
*General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)
*Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)
*Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)
*Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)
*1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)
*R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)
*Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)
*1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)
*Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada
*1949 Australian coal strike (1949)
*Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s

*Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)
*"Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)
*New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)
*1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)
*Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)
*Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)
*Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)
*East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1956, U.S.)
*Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)
*Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)
*Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

1960s

*General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)
*Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)
*1960 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
*New York City Newspaper Strike (1962, U.S.)
*East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)
*Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)
*1964 Mt Isa Mines Strike (1964-5, Australia)
*Delano grape strike (1965-1970, U.S.)
*1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)
*St. John's University strike of 1966-1967 (U.S.)
*Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots
*Gurindji Strike (1966, Australia)
*New York City Transportation Strike (1966, U.S.)
*Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)
*Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 (U.S.)
*Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)
*Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot
*The President National Strike (1969, US)

1970s

*Colour Strike (1970-1971, UK)
*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.)
*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 miners' strike (1972) (UK)
*Baltimore police strike (1974, 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.)
*Japan National Railway Workers Union seven-days strike (1975, Japan)
*Grunwick Dispute (1976-1977) London
*Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.) [ [http://nbjournal.org/2007/07/%e2%80%9ca-disgrace-before-god%e2%80%9d-striking-black-sanitation-workers-vs-black-officialdom-in-1977-atlanta/ "A Disgrace Before God: Striking Black Sanitation Workers vs. Black Officialdom in 1977 Atlanta"] , "New Beginnings: A Journal of Independent Labor" (accessed 6 November 2007).]
*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.)
*Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike (1978, U.S.)
*Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)
*Winter of Discontent (1978-1979, UK)
*Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)

1980s

*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.)
*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)
*Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
*Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
*Mudginberri dispute (1985, Northern Territory, Australia)
*Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
*Chicago Tribune Strike (1986, U.S.)
*Dollar Sweets dispute (1986, Australia)
*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)
*International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)
*Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)
*1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
*1989 Australian pilots' strike
*Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1989, U.S.)
*Pittston Coal Strike (1989-90, U.S.)
*Bell Atlantic Strike (August, 1989)
*Nynex Strike (August, 1989) Lasted 4 months.

1990s

*Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)
*Timex strike (1993)
*1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
*Alcan Aluminum Strike (Canada 1995)
*Detroit Newspaper Strike (13 July 1995—14 February 1997)
*Liverpool Dockers' Strike (1995-1998)
*1995 strikes in France
*1996-1997 strikes in South Korea
*1997 Safeway Strike Canada
*1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)
*1998 Australian waterfront dispute
*1999 Vieques Strikes
*1999 UNAM strike

21st century

*Verizon Strike (August, 2000)
*National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)
*Actors Strike 2001
*UK Firefighter strike 2002
*AFSCME, CUE, UPTE - one day Strikes against University of California (2003, U.S.)
*Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike (2003)
*Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003-2004 (U.S)
*2003 Broadway Musicians Strike (US)
*2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)
*2004 Japanese Professional Baseball Workers Union two-days strike
*2004-05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)
*Bolivian Gas War (2005)
*2005 Lakeside Packers Strike Brooks, Alberta, Canada
*2005 New York City transit strike
*2005 UPR strike
*2006-2007 Palace Casino Strike Edmonton, Alberta Canada
*2006 USW 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 TTC wildcat strike
*University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)
*2007 UAW Local 3520 Wildcat strike, Freightliner, Cleveland NC
*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)
*2007 United Space Alliance strike (U.S.) []
*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 South Africa miners' strike
*2007-2008 Cork players strike
*2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
*2008 Puerto Rico Teacher's Federation strike
*2008 Egyptian general strike
*2008 British teacher's strike
*2008 Scottish Borders Council Strike
*AFSCME statewide strike against the University of California over poverty wages
*2008 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. (U.S.)
*2008 Sundance Kabuki Cinema Sex in the City strike (U.S.)
* 2008 Berlitz Teachers, Tokyo, Japan [ [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080506zg.html Japan Times article] ]
* United Kingdom council workers' strike, 16-17 July 2008
* 2008 Bus strikes by drivers working for First Group in London
* 2008 Sri Lankan Locomotive Operators Association and the Railway Guards Association strike 4 - 7 October, over lay-offs
*2008 Tamil Nadu Telecom Contract Workers’ Union strike, demanding a minimum wage, regularisation of temporary employees, an Employees’ Provident Fund, an Employees’ Insurance Scheme and bonus payments
*2008 Bollywood strike over better pay and working conditions []

Chronological list of general strikes

* 1820 Rising, Scotland
* Saint Louis General Strike, (1877, U.S.)
* New Orleans General Strike (1892, U.S.)
* Philadelphia General Strike (1910, U.S.)
* 1912 Brisbane General Strike, Queensland, Australia
* Seattle General Strike of 1919
* Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
* UK general strike of 1926
* French general strike of 1933
* San Francisco general strike of 1934
* Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
* Yleislakko 1956
* French general strike of May 1968
* Uruguay general strike of 1973
* Ulster Workers' Council Strike, 1974
* Spanish general strike of 1988
* April 1992 general strike in Nepal
* 1998 Puerto Rican General Strike
* Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003
* 2006 democracy movement in Nepal
* 2007 Guinea general strike

ee also

*Timeline of Labor unions in the United States

ources

"Labor conflict in the United States", An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly - Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN 082407968X)

External links

* [http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrike/ Chronology of general strikes]
* [http://www.lutins.org/labor.html List of labor events in U.S. history]
* [http://www.labourstart.org/ Recent strikes and other labour news]