The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes

Strike action

Strike action, also called labour strike, on strike, greve , or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became...

) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strike

General strike

A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region, or country. While a general strike can be for political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants...

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Seventeenth century

Date	Strike	Location
1619	Polish craftsmen strike 1619 Jamestown Polish craftsmen strike The Jamestown Polish craftsmen's strike of 1619, which occurred in the settlement of Jamestown in the Virginia colony, was the first strike in the recorded history of North America. Polish craftsmen had been brought to the colony by colonial leader John Smith to make glassware, pitch, and tar...	Jamestown Jamestown, Virginia Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607 , it was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke... , Virginia colony
1636	Indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny	Province of Maine Province of Maine The Province of Maine refers to several English colonies of that name that existed in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, at times roughly encompassing portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec...
1661	Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot A sizable indentured servant's uprising occurred in Virginia in 1661 over the issue of adequate food. The customary ration for servants at the time included meat three times a week. When a plantation owner named Major Goodwin decided to keep his servants on a diet of cornbread and water, discontent...	Virginia colony
1663	Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike	Province of Maryland Province of Maryland The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S...
1675	Boston ship carpenter's Protest	Boston Boston Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had... , Massachusetts Bay colony Massachusetts Bay Colony The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions...
1676	Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon.About a thousand Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans...	Virginia colony
1677	New York City Carters' Strike	Province of New York Province of New York The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
1684	New York City Carters' Strike	Province of New York Province of New York The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...

Eighteenth century

Date	Strike	Location
1741	New York City Bakers' Strike	New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... , Province of New York Province of New York The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
1768	Florida Indentured Servants' Revolt	East Florida East Florida East Florida was a colony of Great Britain from 1763–1783 and of Spain from 1783–1822. East Florida was established by the British colonial government in 1763; as its name implies it consisted of the eastern part of the region of Florida, with West Florida comprising the western parts. Its capital...
1768	New York City Tailors' Strike	New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... , Province of New York Province of New York The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
1774	Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike	Province of New Jersey Province of New Jersey The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776. The province had originally been settled by Europeans as part of New Netherland, but came under English rule after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, becoming a...
1787	Calton Weavers Strike Calton Weavers Strike The Calton Weavers Strike of 1787 was the earliest major industrial dispute in Scottish history, when troops fired on demonstrators, killing six...	Calton, Glasgow Calton, Glasgow Calton is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The name Calton is derived from the Gaelic "coillduin", which means "wood on the hill". It is situated north of the River Clyde, and just to the east of the city centre... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
1791	Philadelphia Carpenters – First Strike in the U.S. building trades	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1792	Philadelphia River Pilots' Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

1800–1850

Date	Strike	Location
1806	Philadelphia shoemakers' strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1824	Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike	Pawtucket Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:... , Rhode Island Rhode Island The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1825	Boston House Carpenters' Strike	Boston Boston Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had... , Massachuetts, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1827	Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

• 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.)
• Philadelphia 11-hour Day Movement (1835, U.S.)
• 1835 Paterson Textile Strike
  1835 Paterson Textile Strike
  The 1835 Paterson textile strike took place in Paterson, New Jersey, involved more than 2,000 workers from 20 textile mills across the city. The strikers, many of whom were children and of Irish descent, were seeking a reduction in daily working hours from thirteen and a half hours to eleven hours...
  
   (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 6th July 1847
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)

1850–1899

• New England Shoemakers' Strike (1860, U.S.)
• Molders' Lockout (1866, U.S.)
• 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)
  Tompkins Square Riot (1874)
  The Tompkins Square Park Riot occurred on January 13, 1874 when the New York Police Department crushed a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, located in what is now called the East Village.-Background:...
  
   (New York, U.S.)
• Coal miners strikes of 1875
• Great Railroad Strike (1877, U.S.)
• 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
  Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
  The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1885 was a labor union strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers. In March 1886, railroad workers in the Southwest United States conducted an unsuccessful strike against railroads owned by Jay Gould,...
  
   (U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Haymarket Affair
  Haymarket affair
  The Haymarket affair was a demonstration and unrest that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a rally in support of striking workers. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed the public meeting...
  
   (1886, U.S.)
• Bay View Tragedy
  Bay View Tragedy
  The Bay View Massacre was the culmination of events that began on Saturday May 1, 1886 when 7,000 building-trades workers joined with 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St...
  
   (1886, U.S.)
• Port of New York, Longshoremens' Strike (1887, U.S.)
• Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Sugar Cane Workers Strike
  Thibodaux massacre
  The Thibodaux Massacre was a violent labor dispute and racial attack in Thibodaux, Louisiana in November 1887. Although the number of casualties is unknown, at least 35 and as many as three hundred workers were killed, making it one of the most violent labor disputes in U.S. history...
  
   (1887, U.S.)
• Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout (1888, U.S.)
• Baseball Players' Revolt (1889, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)
• 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
  Homestead Strike
  The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history...
  
   (1892, U.S.)
• Buffalo switchmen's strike
  Buffalo switchmen's strike
  The Buffalo switchmen's strike was a two-week strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York. The strike collapsed after two weeks when 8,000 state militia entered the town and other unions refused to support the workers.-Events of the strike:In early...
  
   (1892, U.S.)
• Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892
  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892
  There were two related incidents between miners and mine owners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: the labor strike of 1892, and the labor confrontation of 1899....
  
   (1892, U.S.)
• Printers' strike (1893, Sri Lanka)
• Coxey's Army
  Coxey's Army
  Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. Officially named the Army of the...
  
   marches on Washington D.C. (1894, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
  Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
  The Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 was a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. It resulted in a victory for the union and was followed in 1903 by the Colorado Labor Wars...
  
   (U.S.)
• Pullman Strike
  Pullman Strike
  The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent...
  
   (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
  Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
  Silver was discovered in Leadville, Colorado in the 1870s, initiating the Colorado Silver Boom. The Leadville miners' strike in 1896-97 occurred during, and as a result of, rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry. Mine owners had become more powerful, and they resolved not...
  
   (1896)
• Lattimer Massacre
  Lattimer massacre
  The Lattimer massacre was the violent deaths of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897. The miners, mostly of Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian and German ethnicity, were shot and killed by a Luzerne County sheriff's...
  
   Strike (1897, Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
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• Marlboro Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Welsh coal strike of 1898
  Welsh coal strike of 1898
  The Welsh coal strike of 1898 was an industrial dispute involving the colliers of South Wales and Monmouthshire. The strike began as an attempt by the colliers to remove the sliding scale, which determined their wage based on the price of coal...
  
   (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
  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899
  There were two related incidents between miners and mine owners in Coeur d'Alene: the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892, and the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899....
  
   (1899, U.S.)
• Newsboys Strike of 1899
  Newsboys Strike of 1899
  The Newsboys Strike of 1899 was a youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force. The strike lasted two weeks, causing Pulitzer's New York World to reduce its circulation from 360,000 to 125,000...
  
   (New York City, U.S.)

1900s

• Diamond Workers Strike (1900, Amsterdam)
• St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900
  St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900
  The St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 was a labor action, and resulting civil disruption, against the St. Louis Transit Company by a group of three thousand workers unionized by the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees of America....
  
   (1900, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Penrhyn Quarry strike (1900) (1900–1903, Wales, U.K.)
• Australian Workers strike (23rd Jan, 1900, Aust.)
• U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901
  U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901
  The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 was an attempt by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members. The strike failed....
  
   (U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike
  Coal Strike of 1902
  The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union...
  
   (1902, U.S.)
• Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Colorado Labor Wars
  Colorado Labor Wars
  Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital occurred primarily between miners and mine operators. In these battles the state government, with one clear exception, always took the side of the mine operators....
  
  , Western Federation of Miners (1903–1904, U.S.)
• Oxnard Strike of 1903
  Oxnard Strike of 1903
  The Oxnard Strike of 1903 describes a labor rights dispute of that year in the California coastal city of Oxnard between local landowners and the majority Japanese and Mexican labor force.-Before the strike:...
  
   (U.S.)
• Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)
• 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
  Cananea strike
  The Cananea Strike, also known as the Cananea Riot, or the Cananea Massacre, took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906...
  
   (1905, Sonora, Mexico)
• Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907, U.S.)
• Río Blanco Strike (1907, Mexico)
• San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907
  San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907
  The San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907 was among the most violent of the streetcar strikes in the United States between 1895 and 1929. Before the end of the strike, thirty-one people had been killed and about 1100 injured....
  
   (U.S.)
• Pensacola streetcar operators' strike
  Pensacola streetcar operators' strike
  A strike of streetcar operators took place in Pensacola, Florida from April 5 to May 13, 1908. It was staged by employees of the Pensacola Electric Company over a company rule requiring workers whom the company had suspended for whatever reason to report to the company's car barn thrice daily for a...
  
   (1908, Pensacola, Florida
  Pensacola, Florida
  Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...
  
  , U.S.)
• New York shirtwaist strike of 1909
  New York shirtwaist strike of 1909
  The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909, also known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was a labor strike primarily involving Jewish women working in New York shirtwaist factories. Led by Clara Lemlich and supported by the National Women's Trade Union League of America , the strike began in November 1909...
  
   "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)
• Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)
• Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909
  Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909
  The Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909, also known as the "1909 McKees Rocks Strike," was an American labor strike which lasted from July 13 through September 8. The walkout drew national attention when it climaxed on Sunday August 22 in a bloody battle between strikers, private security agents, and...
  
   (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania
  McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania
  McKees Rocks, also known as "The Rocks", is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the south bank of the Ohio River. The borough population was 6,104 at the 2010 census.In the past, it was known for its extensive iron and steel interests...
  
  , U.S.)
• Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s

• 1910 New York Cloakmakers Strike, also known as "The Great Revolt" (1910, U.S.)
• Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–1911
  Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–1911
  The Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–1911 was a strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America. The strike is also known as the "Slovak strike" because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovak immigrants....
  
   (U.S.)
• Chicago Garment Workers' Strike of 1910–1911 (U.S.)
• 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike
  1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike
  The 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike involved dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well people from other trades. It paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of the summer of 1911. It also transformed trade unionism on Merseyside...
  
   (UK)
• Lawrence textile strike
  Lawrence textile strike
  The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the strike spread rapidly through the...
  
  , often known as the Bread and Roses
  Bread and Roses
  The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often...
  
   strike (1912, U.S.)
• Waihi miners' strike
  Waihi miners' strike
  The Waihi miners' strike was a major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi. It is widely regarded as the most significant industrial action in the history of New Zealand's labour movement...
  
   (1912, Waihi
  Waihi
  Waihi is a town in Hauraki District in the North Island of New Zealand, especially notable for its history as a gold mine town. It had a population of 4,503 at the 2006 census....
  
  , New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  )
• Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike
  Grabow Riot
  On July 7, 1912, a violent confrontation known as the Graybow Riot occurred between factions of the timber industry, primarily the Galloway Lumber Company, and a party of the striking union mill workers and supporters, near Grabow , Louisiana...
  
   (1912, U.S.)
• Muscatine Button Workers' Strike
• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912
  Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912
  The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 was a confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Kanawha County, West Virginia, centered around the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek....
  
   (U.S.)
• Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)
• Ludlow Massacre
  Ludlow massacre
  The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914....
  
   Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Paterson silk strike
  Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
  The 1913 Paterson silk strike was a work stoppage involving silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. The strike, which involved demands for establishment of an eight-hour day and improved working conditions. The strike began on February 1, 1913, and ended six months later, on July 28.-History:The...
  
   (1913, U.S.)
• 1913 Great Strike
  1913 Great Strike
  The Great Strike refers to a near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913. The dispute began on the Wellington waterfront and spread to other industries around the country.-Origins:...
  
   (1913, New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  )
• Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
  Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
  The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913 and the subsequent Indianapolis Police Mutiny and 1913 Indianapolis Riots was a breakdown in public order in Indianapolis, Indiana. They began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and their allies on...
  
   (U.S.)
• Burston Strike School
  Burston Strike School
  The Burston Strike School was at the centre of the longest running strike in British history, between 1914 and 1939. Now a museum, it is in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England....
  
   (1914–1939, UK)
• BLE Strike in New York City
  Malbone Street Wreck
  The Malbone Street Wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line Accident of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company , was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred November 1, 1918, beneath the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Ocean Avenue, and Malbone Street, in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn...
  
   (1918, U.S.)
• Police officers' strike
  Police strike 1918 and 1919
  The Police Strikes of 1918 and 1919 resulted in the British government putting before Parliament its proposals for a Police Act, which established the Police Federation of England and Wales as the representative body for the police. The Act also barred police from belonging to a trade union or...
  
  , (1918–19, UK)
• Coal strike (1919, U.S.)
• Boston Police Strike
  Boston Police Strike
  In the Boston Police Strike, the Boston police rank and file went out on strike on September 9, 1919 in order to achieve recognition for their trade union and improvements in wages and working conditions...
  
    (1919, U.S.)
• 1919 Battle of George Square
  1919 Battle of George Square
  The 1919 Battle of George Square, also known as Bloody Friday and Black Friday, was one of the most intense riots in the history of Glasgow, Scotland, which took place on Friday, 31 January 1919. The dispute revolved around a campaign for shorter working hours, backed by widespread strike action...
  
   (UK)
• Steel strike of 1919
  Steel strike of 1919
  The Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I. The strike began on September 22, 1919, and collapsed on January 8, 1920.The AA had formed in 1876. It was a...
  
   (U.S.)

1920s

• Battle of Matewan
  Battle of Matewan
  The Battle of Matewan was a shootout in the town of Matewan, West Virginia in Mingo County on May 19, 1920 between local miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency....
  
   (1920, U.S.)
• 1920 Alabama coal strike
  1920 Alabama coal strike
  The 1920 Alabama coal strike was a statewide strike of the United Mine Workers of America against coal mine operators. The strike was marked by racial violence, and ended in significant defeat for the union.- Conditions :...
  
   (1920, U.S.)
• Clothing Workers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)
• Kronstadt Rebellion
  Kronstadt rebellion
  The Kronstadt rebellion was one of many major unsuccessful left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War...
  
   (1921, U.S.S.R.)
• Battle of Blair Mountain
  Battle of Blair Mountain
  The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the largest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed insurrection since the American Civil War...
  
   (1921, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1921, U.S.)
• Black Friday (1921)
  Black Friday (1921)
  Black Friday, in British labour history, refers to 15 April 1921, when the leaders of transport and rail unions announced a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners...
  
   (UK)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1922
  Great Railroad Strike of 1922
  The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 was a nationwide railroad shop workers strike in the United States. The action began on July 1 and was the largest railroad work stoppage since 1894.-History:...
  
   (U.S.)
• Herrin massacre
  Herrin massacre
  The Herrin Massacre took place in June 1922 in Herrin, Illinois. Three union miners were killed in a strike-related confrontation on June 21. The following day, 19 of of fifty strikebreakers and union guards were killed, many of them in a brutal way...
  
   (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
  1923 Victorian Police strike
  The 1923 Victorian Police strike occurred in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. On the eve of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in November 1923, half the police force in Melbourne went on strike over the operation of a supervisory system using labour spies...
  
   (Australia)
• Kashmiri Silk Workers 3rd Strike 1924
• Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)
• Stripa Labour Conflict (Sweden, 1925)
• Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike
  1926 Passaic Textile Strike
  The 1926 Passaic Textile Strike was a work stoppage by over 15,000 woolen mill workers in and around Passaic, New Jersey over wage issues in several factories in the vicinity...
  
   (1926, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)
• Columbine Mine Massacre
  Columbine Mine massacre
  The first Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine massacre to distinguish it from the Columbine High School massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. A fight broke out between Colorado state police and a group of striking coal miners, during which the unarmed...
  
   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
  1929 Timber Workers strike
  The 1929 Timber Workers strike was a labour dispute in Australia caused by Judge Lukin of the Arbitration Court handing down an industrial award decision on 23 December 1928 to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers from a 44-hour week to a 48-hour week...
  
   (Australia)
• Lupeni Strike of 1929
  Lupeni Strike of 1929
  The Lupeni Strike of 1929 took place on August 5 and 6 1929 in the mining town of Lupeni, in the Jiu Valley of Transylvania, Romania.-Chronology:...
  
   (Romania)
• Rothbury Riot
  Rothbury Riot
  On 16 December 1929, New South Wales Police drew their revolvers and shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales town of Rothbury in Australia, killing a 29-year-old miner, Norman Brown, and injuring approximately forty five other miners...
  
   (1929, Australia)
• Loray Mill Strike
  Loray Mill Strike
  The Loray Mill Strike of 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina was one of the most notable strikes in the labor history of the United States. Though largely unsuccessful in attaining its goals of better working conditions and wages, the strike was considered very successful in a lasting way; it caused...
  
   (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
  Ådalen shootings
  The Ådalen shootings , was a series of events in and around the sawmill district of Ådalen, Kramfors Municipality, Ångermanland, Sweden, in May 1931...
  
   (1931, Sweden)
• Battle of Evarts
  Battle of Evarts
  The Battle of Evarts is the name given to a mining strike and ensuing violence that occurred in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931. In February 1931, The Harlan County Coal company cut wages for their employees. The United Mine Workers union responded by holding a rally in Pineville, drawing over...
  
  , Harlan County Mining Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Invergordon Mutiny
  Invergordon Mutiny
  The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet, that took place on 15–16 September 1931...
  
   (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
  Ford Hunger March
  The Ford Hunger March was a demonstration of unemployed workers starting in Detroit and ending in Dearborn, Michigan, that took place on March 7, 1932. The march resulted in four workers being shot to death by the Dearborn Police Department and security guards employed by the Ford Motor Company....
  
   Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)
• Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Griviţa Strike of 1933
  Grivita Strike of 1933
  The Grivița Strike of 1933 was a railway strike which was started at the Grivița Workshops, Bucharest, Romania, on 16 February 1933 by workers of Căile Ferate Române . The strike was brought about by the increasingly poor working conditions of railway employees in the context of the worldwide Great...
  
   (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
  Auto-Lite strike
  The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934....
  
   (1934, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.)
• Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
  Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
  The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, a major distribution center for the Upper Midwest. The strike began on May 16, 1934 in the Market District and ensuing violence lasted periodically throughout...
  
   (U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Textile workers Strike (1934)
  Textile workers strike (1934)
  The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days...
  
   (U.S.)
• 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike
  1934 West Coast Longshore Strike
  The 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States...
  
   (U.S.)
• NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Battle of Ballantyne Pier
  Battle of Ballantyne Pier
  Ballantyne Pier was the site of a docker's strike in Vancouver, BC, in June 1935. It was a federally owned dock built by the National Harbours Board In 1923, and named for the head of the Harbours Board. There were ongoing strikes on the West Coast of North America in the Depression and it led to...
  
   (1935, Canada)
• Copperbelt strike (1935)
  Copperbelt strike (1935)
  The Copperbelt strike in May 1935 was a great strike action which was performed by African mineworkers in the Copperbelt to protest against unfair taxes imposed by the British colonial authorities. The strike involved three of the four great copper mines of the province, namely those of Mufulira,...
  
   (Zambia)
• Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers' strike (1935, U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)
• On-to-Ottawa Trek
  On-to-Ottawa Trek
  The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a long journey where thousands of people had unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada. The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike in...
  
   (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.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike
  Flint Sit-Down Strike
  The 1936–1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry....
  
   (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
  Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937
  The Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 was a strike by a federal union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor against the Remington Rand company...
  
   (U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike
  Flint Sit-Down Strike
  The 1936–1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry....
  
   General Motors (1936–1937, U.S.)
• Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)
• Memorial Day massacre of 1937
  Memorial Day massacre of 1937
  In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States....
  
   "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)
• Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Strike (1937, Maine
  Maine
  Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
  
  , 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.)

• Ford Motor Strike (1939, U.S.)
• Disney animators' strike
  Disney animators' strike
  The Disney animators' strike was a labor strike by the animators of Walt Disney Studios in 1941.-History:The 1930s led to a rise of labor unions in motion pictures as in other industries such as The Screen Actors Guild which was formed in 1933. Animators of Fleischer Studios went on strike in 1937...
  
   (1939, U.S.)

1940s

• Mooloya estate strike wave (1940, Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
  )
• 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
  February strike
  The 1941 February Strike, also known as 'The Strike of February 1941', was a general strike organized during World War II in the Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities of the Nazis. Its direct causes were the pogroms held by the Germans in the Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam....
  
   (1941, Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  )
• International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)
• New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)
• North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Quit India movement
  Quit India Movement
  The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table...
  
   (1942, India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  )
• 1942-43 musicians' strike (U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike
  Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike
  no citation necessary - anhracite is not bituminous.e Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike was an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of bituminous coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894....
  
   (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)
• Hollywood Black Friday
  Hollywood Black Friday
  Hollywood Black Friday is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945. On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios in...
  
   (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
• African Mine Workers' Strike
  African Mine Workers' Strike
  The African Mine Workers' Strike, by mine workers of Witwatersrand started on August 12, 1946 and lasted around 1 week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.-African Mine Workers' Union:...
  
   (1946, S.A.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike
  Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike
  no citation necessary - anhracite is not bituminous.e Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike was an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of bituminous coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894....
  
   (1946, U.S.)
• Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)
• General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Queensland meat industry strike (1946, Australia)
• Railroad Strike
  Railroad strike
  Railroad strike may refer to:*Great Railroad Strike of 1877*Great Railroad Strike of 1922*Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886*South Korean railroad strike of 2006See also*:Category:Rail transport strikes...
  
   (1946, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Pilbara strike
  1946 Pilbara strike
  The 1946 Pilbara strike was a landmark strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions...
  
  , (Western Australia)
• Hawaiian Sugar Strike (1946)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Longshore Strike (1948, U.S.)
• 1948 Queensland Railway strike
  1948 Queensland Railway strike
  right|thumb|225px|Confrontation with police during demonstration in support of the strike, Brisbane, 17 March 1948The 1948 Queensland Railway strike was a strike which lasted nine weeks, from February to April, 1948, over issues of the wages of the Railway Workshops and locomotive depots workers in...
  
   (Australia)
• Asbestos Strike
  Asbestos Strike
  The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners. It has traditionally been portrayed as a turning point in Quebec history that helped lead to the Quiet Revolution...
  
   (1949) Quebec
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
  , Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  
• 1949 Australian coal strike
  1949 Australian coal strike
  The 1949 Australian coal strike is the first time that Australian military forces were used during peacetime to break a Trade union strike. The strike by 23,000 coal miners lasted for seven weeks, from 27 June 1949 to 15 August 1949, with troops being sent in by the Ben Chifley Federal Labor...
  
   (1949)
• Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s

• Atlanta transit strike of 1950
  Atlanta transit strike of 1950
  The Atlanta transit strike of 1950 was a lengthy transit strike that lasted from May 18, 1950 to November 16, 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia.A month after author Margaret Mitchell was struck and killed by a taxi during a year when trolleys had killed five, there was a call in the city to increase safety...
  
   (U.S.)
• "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)
• General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
  General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
  The Royal Question refers to the 1950 political conflict surrounding the question whether King Leopold III should return to Belgium after World War II. A referendum was organised, in which the majority voted in favour of his return...
  
  
• New Zealand waterfront strike
  1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute
  The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute was the largest and most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history. During the time, up to twenty thousand workers went on strike in support of waterfront workers protesting financial hardships and working conditions. Thousands more refused to...
  
   (1951)
• 1952 steel strike
  1952 steel strike
  The 1952 steel strike was a strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers. The strike was scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952, but President Harry S. Truman nationalized the American steel industry hours before the workers walked out. The steel companies...
  
   (1952, U.S.)
• Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)
• The Hartal of 1953
  Hartal 1953
  Hartal 1953 was a country-wide demonstration, commonly known as a hartal, held in Ceylon on August 12, 1953. It was organized to protest of the policies and actions of the incumbent United National Party government, and resulted in the resignation of the Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake...
  
   (1953, Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
  )
• Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)
• UNITE Strike (1955, 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
  Hock Lee bus riots
  The Hock Lee bus riots occurred on May 12, 1955, in Singapore. 4 people were killed and 31 injured in the violent and bloody riot.-Strikes begin:...
  
   (1955, Singapore)
• Musicians Union strike (1958, U.S.)
• Steel strike of 1959
  Steel strike of 1959
  The steel strike of 1959 was a 1959 labor union strike by the United Steelworkers of America against major steel-making companies in the United States....
  
   (U.S.)

1960s

• General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)
• 1960 Writers Guild of America strike
  1960 Writers Guild of America strike
  The 1960 Writers Guild of America strike was the second longest writers strike in history. It lasted , and just one week less than the 1988 writers strike. The strike against the producers lasted from January 16, 1960 until June 10, 1960 . The strike against the networks began on March 19...
  
   (U.S.)
• 1960–1961 Winter General Strike (Wallonia)
• 1962 New York City newspaper strike
  1962 New York City newspaper strike
  The 1962-63 New York City Newspaper Strike ran from December 8, 1962 until March 31, 1963, lasting for a total of 114 days.-Preliminary actions:...
  
   (1962, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)
• Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
  Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
  The Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 was one of the defining labour conflicts in Canadian history, resulting in the shooting of 11 union members, three of whom were killed...
  
   (Canada)
• 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike (1964–5, Australia)
• Delano grape strike
  Delano grape strike
  The strike began when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, mostly Filipino farm workers in Delano, California, led by Philip Vera Cruz, Larry Itliong, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage...
  
   (1965–1970, U.S.)
• 1966 New York City transit strike
  1966 New York City transit strike
  The 1966 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union and Amalgamated Transit Union after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority . It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910,...
  
   (U.S.)
• Gurindji strike (1966, Australia)
• St. John's University strike of 1966–67 (U.S.)
• Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots
• Railroad machinists' strike of 1967 (U.S.)
• Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)
• May 1968 in France
• Chrysler wildcat strike
  Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
  The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan....
  
   (1968, U.S.)
• New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968
  New York City teacher's strike of 1968
  The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean-Hill Brownsville section of Brooklyn and New York City’s United Federation of Teachers...
  
   (U.S.)
• Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968
  Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968
  The Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 was a strike action in the state of Florida in February and March 1968 by teachers and other education workers belonging to the Florida Education Association . The cause of the strike was under-funding of the state's educational system at a time when...
  
   (U.S.)
• Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)
• Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot
  Murray-Hill riot
  The Murray-Hill riot was the culmination of 16 hours of unrest in Montreal, Quebec during a Montreal police strike.Police were motivated to strike because of difficult working conditions caused by disarming separatist-planted bombs and patrolling frequent protests...
  
  
• The President National Strike (1969, US)

1970s

• Colour Strike
  Colour Strike
  The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 who, due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment.At that time ITV had recently switched to...
  
   (1970–1971, UK)
• Salad Bowl strike
  Salad Bowl strike
  The Salad Bowl strike was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts, and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970, and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. The strike was led by the United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
  
   (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 United Kingdom postal workers strike
  The 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike was a strike in the United Kingdom staged by postal workers between January and March 1971.-Details:...
  
   (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 miners' strike (1972) (UK)
• Baltimore police strike
  Baltimore police strike
  The Baltimore police strike was a labor action taken by the police department of Baltimore, Maryland in July 1974. The city experienced a police strike along with other community employees that was one of the most effective municipal labor actions of its kind since the Boston Police Strike of 1919....
  
   (1974, U.S.)
• 1974 UPR strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
  Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
  The Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 was a 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America, AFL-CIO. It is generally considered a successful strike by the union....
  
   (U.S.)
• Ulster Workers' Council Strike
  Ulster Workers' Council Strike
  The Ulster Workers' Council strike was a general strike that took place in Northern Ireland between 15 May and 28 May 1974, during "The Troubles". The strike was called by loyalists and unionists who were against the Sunningdale Agreement, which had been signed in December 1973...
  
   (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
  Grunwick dispute
  The Grunwick dispute was an industrial dispute involving trade union recognition at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Willesden, North London which led to a two-year strike between 1976–1978...
  
   (1976–1977) London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  
• Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)
• 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
  Sudbury Strike of 1978
  The Inco strike of 1978 was a strike by workers at Inco's operations in Sudbury, Ontario, which lasted from September 15, 1978 until June 7, 1979....
  
   (Canada)
• Winter of Discontent
  Winter of Discontent
  The "Winter of Discontent" is an expression, popularised by the British media, referring to the winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members, because the Labour government of...
  
   (1978–1979, UK)
• Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)
• Art Strike 1977–1980
• 1979 ITV strike

1980s

• 1980 General strike, Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
  
• 1980 Swedish labour conflict
• 1980 New York City transit strike
  1980 New York City transit strike
  The 1980 New York City transit strike in New York City was the first work stoppage at the New York City Transit Authority since 1966. 34,000 members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for contracted workers...
  
   (April 1980, U.S.)
• 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike
  Lech Wałęsa
  Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...
  
   (August 1980, Poland)
• Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981, U.S.)
• Bydgoszcz events
  Bydgoszcz events
  Bydgoszcz events refers to a turning point in the early history of the Solidarity movement. Following the registration of the Solidarity by the communist authorities of Poland in 1980, the farmers were also pushing for creation of a separate trade union, independent from the official system of power...
  
   (March 1981, Poland)
• 1981 UPR strike
• 1981 Writers Guild of America strike
  1981 Writers Guild of America strike
  The 1981 Writers Guild of America strike was a 3 month strike action taken to establish compensation in the then-new markets of "pay TV" and home video.- See also :* International Affiliation of Writers Guilds * WGA screenwriting credit system...
  
   (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
  Battle of Orgreave
  The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike...
  
   (1984, UK)
• UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
  UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
  The UK miners' strike was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement...
  
  
• 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
  Dollar Sweets dispute
  The Dollar Sweets dispute in 1985 was a small industrial dispute with major legal ramifications in industrial relations where an employer resorted to a common law verdict and damages in a case in the Supreme Court of Victoria to resolve a dispute after industrial courts proved ineffective...
  
   (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
  Major Soccer League
  The Major Indoor Soccer League, known in its final two seasons as the Major Soccer League, was an indoor soccer league in the USA from 1978 to 1992. After the folding of the North American Soccer League in 1984, the MISL was the Division I soccer league for the United States...
  
   two-week lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Wapping dispute
  Wapping dispute
  The Wapping dispute was, along with the miners' strike of 1984-5, a significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations...
  
   (1986, UK)
• Bollywood Strike (1987, India)
• The Great Workers' Struggle (1987, South Korea)
• International Paper strike
  International Paper strike
  The International Paper strike was a strike in 1987 by paper mill workers at a number of plants in the United States owned by the International Paper company....
  
   (1987, U.S.)
• Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)
• 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike
  1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike
  The 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike was a strike in the United Kingdom in August and September 1988. It was the country's first national postal strike for 17 years, and began after postal workers at Royal Mail walked out in protest over bonuses being paid to recruit new workers in London...
  
  
• 1988 Writers Guild of America strike
  1988 Writers Guild of America strike
  The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike was a strike action taken by members of both the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West against major United States television and film studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers...
  
   (U.S.)
• 1989 Australian pilots' strike
  1989 Australian pilots' strike
  The 1989 Australian pilots' dispute was one of the most expensive and dramatic industrial disputes in Australia's history. It was co-ordinated by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots after a prolonged period of wage suppression, to support its campaign for a large pay increase The 1989...
  
  
• Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1989, U.S.)
• Bell Atlantic Strike (August 1989)
• Nynex
  NYNEX
  NYNEX Corporation was a telephone company that served five New England states as well as most of New York state, except the Rochester area, from 1984 through 1997....
  
   Strike (August 1989) Lasted 4 months.
• Pittston Coal strike
  Pittston Coal strike
  The Pittston Coal strike was a United States labor union action led by the United Mine Workers Union against the Pittston Coal Company, nationally headquartered in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The strike, which lasted from April 5, 1989 to February 20, 1990, resulted from Pittston's termination of...
  
   (1989–90, U.S.)

1990s

• Greyhound Bus Strike of 1990 (U.S.)
• Art Strike 1990–1993
• Mandal Commission protests of 1990
  Mandal Commission protests of 1990
  Mandal Commission protests of 1990 were against giving government jobs to certain castes on basis of birth rather than merit of the candidate. These protests closed roads, highways, transportation services, government services, schools, and businesses of India. Anti-reservationists protested. ...
  
   (India, 1990)
• 1992 NHL strike (U.S., Canada)
• Timex strike
  Timex strike
  The Timex Strike was a dispute in Dundee, Scotland in 1993.In early January 1993, there were proposed layoffs at the factory. A ballot for strike action came out at 92% in favour, while requests for negotiation and arbitration were ignored. On 29 January, the workers came out on strike...
  
   (1993)
• 1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S., Canada)
• Alcan Aluminum Strike (Canada 1995)
• Detroit Newspaper Strike (13 July 1995—14 February 1997)
• Liverpool Dockers' Strike
  Liverpool Dockers' Strike
  The Liverpool Dockers' Strike lasted from 1995 to 1998.Although referred to as a strike it was strictly a dispute because the employers, the MDHC had actually used the opportunity to sack the dockers who were caught up in a separate dispute.The Liverpool dockers refused to cross a picket line set...
  
   (1995–1998)
• 1995 strikes in France
  1995 strikes in France
  The 1995 strikes in France were a series of general strikes in France, mostly in the public sector in late 1995. The strikes received great popular support despite paralyzing the country's transportation infrastructure...
  
  
• 1996–1997 strikes in South Korea
• 1997 Safeway Strike Canada
• 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)
• 1997 Ontario teachers strike (Canada)
• 1998 Australian waterfront dispute
  1998 Australian waterfront dispute
  The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was a watershed event in Australian Industrial Relations history, in which the Patrick Corporation undertook a restructuring of their operations for the purpose of increasing the productivity of their workforce...
  
  
• 1999 Vieques Strikes
• 1999 UNAM strike
  1999 UNAM strike
  The 1999 strike at the UNAM had its origins in the January 1999 announcement by its rector that tuition would increase from about 0.02 dollars to about $150 a semester. A group of students declared a strike and blockaded the main campus...
  
  

21st century

• Verizon Strike (August 2000)
• Jeffboat wildcat strike
  Jeffboat
  Jeffboat is the largest inland shipbuilder in the United States, located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It is the second-largest builder of barges...
  
   (2001, U.S.)
• National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)
• Actors Strike 2001
• UK Firefighter strike 2002
• Alberta Teachers strike 2002
• University of California strikes (2003, U.S.)
• Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike
  Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike
  In 2003, nursery nurses employed by local authorities in Scotland began a rolling programme of strike action in response to councils' refusals to countenance their demands for pay increases....
  
   (2003)
• 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike
  2003 Broadway Musicians Strike
  The 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike by Broadway musician union members took place from Friday, March 7, 2003 to early Tuesday morning, March 11, 2003, in protest over producers' proposals to cut the number of musicians at live performances, and the possibility of using taped or computer based music....
  
   (US)
• 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
  Bolivian Gas War
  The Bolivian gas conflict was a social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves. The expression can be extended to refer to the general conflict in Bolivia over the exploitation of gas resources, thus including the 2005 protests and the...
  
   (2005)
• 2005 Lakeside Packers Strike (Canada)
• 2005 New York City transit strike
  2005 New York City transit strike
  The 2005 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 . Negotiations for a new contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority broke down over retirement, pension, and wage increases. The strike began at 3:00 a.m. EST on...
  
  
• 2005 UPR strike (Puerto Rico)
• Dhaka strikes
  2006 Dhaka strikes
  From May 20 to June 6, nearly 1.8 million garment workers of Bangladesh concentrated in industrial areas in and around the capital Dhaka engaged in a series of simultaneous massive wildcat strikes. During this period, especially from May 20 to May 24 when garment workers’ revolt was at its peak,...
  
   (2006, Bangladesh)
• 2006 USW Strike (U.S. and Canada)
• 2006 AK Steel Strike (U.S.)
• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Oaxaca protests
  2006 Oaxaca protests
  The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca . The conflict emerged in May 2006 with the police responding to a...
  
   (Mexico)
• 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute
  2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute
  The 2006 Progressive Enterprises Dispute was an industrial dispute between New Zealand supermarket company Progressive Enterprises and employees represented by the National Distribution Union and the EPMU...
  
   (New Zealand)
• South Korean railroad strike of 2006
  South Korean railroad strike of 2006
  The South Korean railroad strike of 2006 was a four-day walkout by members of the Korea Railway Workers' Union employed by the Korean National Railroad. It lasted from March 1 to March 4, when most of the workers voluntarily returned to work. During the strike, Korail's passenger service was...
  
  
• 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike (Canada)
• University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike
  University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike
  The University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike featured striking custodial workers at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States...
  
   (U.S.)
• 2006–2007 Palace Casino Strike (Canada)
• 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike (U.S.)
• 2007 South African public servants' strike
  2007 South African public servants' strike
  The 2007 South African public servants' strike was a general strike of workers in the public sector of South Africa. It was led by the Congress of South African Trade Unions , which is currently in a labour/political alliance with the governing African National Congress party of Thabo Mbeki...
  
  
• 2007 Orange County transit strike (U.S.)
• Hayward teachers strike
  Hayward teachers strike
  The Hayward teachers strike was an April 2007 ten day strike of teachers in the Hayward Unified School District in Hayward, California.-Teacher demands:...
  
   (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 General Motors strike
  2007 General Motors strike
  The 2007 General Motors strike was a strike from September 24 to 26, 2007, by the United Auto Workers against General Motors.On September 24, 2007 at approximately 11:00 a.m. EDT, the roughly 73,000 General Motors workers represented by the United Auto Workers union went on strike against the company...
  
   (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
  2007 Broadway stagehand strike
  2007 Broadway Stagehands Strike was a strike action by stagehands represented by Theatrical Protective Union Number One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees against the Shubert, Jujamcyn, and Nederlander theaters...
  
   (U.S)
• SEMCO Energy Gas Company Strike (2007, U.S.)
• Port of Napier Strike (2007, New Zealand)
• November 2007 strikes in France
  November 2007 strikes in France
  The 2007 strikes in France were a series of general strikes, mostly in the public sector, which started on 13 November 2007. The strike was over President Nicolas Sarkozy's and Prime Minister François Fillon's attempt to reduce early retirement benefits for 500,000 public employees...
  
  
• German national rail strike of 2007
• 2007-Pantex Security Guards Strike
• 2007 South Africa miners' strike
  2007 South Africa miners' strike
  The South Africa miners strike was a one day strike by the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa over working conditions and safety in the country's mining industry...
  
  
• 2007–2008 Cork players strike
• 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike
  2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike
  The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, more commonly referred to as simply the Writers' Strike, was a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West ....
  
   (U.S.)
• 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike (Japan)
• 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, U.K.)
• 2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike
  2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike
  The 2008 TTC strike was as a legal strike action by Toronto Transit Commission unionized employees that began on April 26, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. EDT. All bus, streetcar and subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was suspended leaving thousands of people stranded across the city...
  
   (Canada)
• 2008 Spanish truckers strike
• 2008 First Group bus strike (U.K.)
• 2008 Sri Lankan train strike (Sri Lanka)
• 2008 Indian communication workers' strike (India)
• VIVA bus operators strike (Canada)
• 2008 Bollywood strike
• 2008 Timmins Ont. "Met" Site strike (October)
• Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008
  Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008
  A strike by about 27,000 machinists at Boeing over outsourcing, job security, pay, and benefits began September 7, 2008.The union, International Association of Machinists, and Boeing appeared unwilling to compromise to settle the strike...
  
  
• 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes
  2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes
  The 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes were a series of wildcat strikes that affected the energy industry in the United Kingdom in 2009. The action involved workers at around a dozen energy sites across the UK who walked out in support of other British workers at the Total's Lindsey Oil Refinery...
  
  
• 2008–09 York University Strike (Canada)
• 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike
  2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike
  The 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike was a legal strike action that was undertaken by the Toronto Civic Employees Union, a subsidiary of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the city of Toronto.It involved approximately 24,000 city employees.-Background:On June 22 at...
  
   (Canada)
• Via Rail
  VIA Rail
  Via Rail Canada is an independent crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail services in Canada. It is headquartered near Montreal Central Station at 3 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec....
  
   strike (Canada)
• Art Strike
  Art strike
  First known reference to art strike is in Alain Jouffroy's essay "What's To Be Done About Art?" :...
  
   Biennial, Alytus, August 2009
• 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike
  2009 Leeds refuse workers strike
  The 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike was an eleven week industrial dispute in City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England between Leeds City Council and the city's binmen.-Background:...
  
  
• 2009 UK postal strikes
  2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes
  The 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes is an industrial dispute in the United Kingdom involving Royal Mail and members of the Communication Workers Union , which began in the summer of 2009...
  
  
• 2009 McMaster University Strike (Canada)
• 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike
  2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike
  The 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes refer to the student strikes which took place between May 2010 and June 2010 in most of the university campuses, as well as the protests that occurred from December 2010 to February 2011....
  
  
• 2010 The Cast of Jersey Shore
• 2010 Scottish football referee strike
  Scottish football referee strike
  The Scottish football referee strike refers to the unprecedented withdrawal of services by top level referees in Scottish football, following a dispute between the Scottish Senior Football Referees' Association and the Scottish Football Association...
  
  
• 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike
• 2011 Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Local#6094
• 2011 Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Strike (Canada)
• 2011 Saskatchewan Teachers Federation Strike (Canada)
• 2011 Czech transport strike (Czech Republic)
• 2011 Verizon workers strike (United States)
• 2011 Australian Community and Public Sector Union
  Community and Public Sector Union
  The Community and Public Sector Union is a national trade union in Australia.- History of The CPSU :...
  
   quarantine workers strike (Australia)
• 2011 Longview Longshoreman Strike (United States, ILWU)
• 2011 Brandon University Faculty Association (Manitoba, Canada)

Chronological list of general strike

General strike

A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region, or country. While a general strike can be for political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants...

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Date	Name	Location
1820	1820 Rising	Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
1842	1842 General Strike 1842 General Strike The 1842 General Strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, started among the miners in Staffordshire, England, and soon spread through Britain affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall....	England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
1877	Saint Louis General Strike	Saint Louis, Missouri Missouri Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1886	Walloon jacquerie of 1886 Walloon Jacquerie of 1886 The Walloon jacquerie of 1886 was a working class jacquerie of a bloody spring as many Walloon scholars are calling it This violent upheaval of the Belgian, especially Walloon proletariat, caused a profound psychological shock in an atmosphere of fear of an inevitable and explosive social...	Wallonia
1887	1887 sugar cane workers	St. Mary, Terrebonne ,and Lafourche parishes, Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1892	New Orleans General Strike	New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population... , Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1893	Belgian general strike of 1893 Belgian general strike of 1893 The Belgian general strike of 1893 was ordered by the General Board of the Belgian Labour Party after the Belgian Parliament rejected the Law Proposal on universal suffrage....	Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...  Mons Mons Mons is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, of which it is the capital. The Mons municipality includes the old communes of Cuesmes, Flénu, Ghlin, Hyon, Nimy, Obourg, Baudour , Jemappes, Ciply, Harmignies, Harveng, Havré, Maisières, Mesvin, Nouvelles,...
1909	1909 Swedish General Strike	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
1910	Philadelphia General Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1912	1912 Brisbane General Strike 1912 Brisbane General Strike The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912...	Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of... , Queensland Queensland Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
1918	Vancouver general strike	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,... , British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858... , Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
1919	Seattle General Strike	Seattle, Washington, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1919	Winnipeg General Strike	Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name... , Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other... , Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
1920	Italian, Anti-Fascist General Strike March on Rome The March on Rome was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in the Kingdom of Italy...	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
1920	Dezember General Strike (one week)	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
1926	UK general strike of 1926	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
1933	French general strike of 1933	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1934	San Francisco general strike of 1934	San Francisco, California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1936	Palestinian general strike Palestinian general strike The Palestinian general strike lasted from April–October 1936 in the British Mandate of Palestine and was part of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine....	Palestine Palestine Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
1942	1942 Luxembourg General Strike	Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
1946	1946 Oakland general strike	Oakland, California Oakland, California Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
1950	General strike against Leopold III of Belgium General strike against Leopold III of Belgium The Royal Question refers to the 1950 political conflict surrounding the question whether King Leopold III should return to Belgium after World War II. A referendum was organised, in which the majority voted in favour of his return...
1953	Uprising of 1953 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany The Uprising of 1953 in East Germany started with a strike by East Berlin construction workers on June 16. It turned into a widespread anti-Stalinist uprising against the German Democratic Republic government the next day....	East Germany
1956	Yleislakko 1956	Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
1960–1961	1960–1961 Winter General Strike	Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...  Wallonia
1968	French general strike of May 1968	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1973	Uruguay general strike of 1973 Uruguay general strike of 1973 In 1973 a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan María Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement. The leftist trade union federations called a general...	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
1974	Ulster Workers' Council Strike Sunningdale Agreement The Sunningdale Agreement was an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland. The Agreement was signed at the Civil Service College in Sunningdale Park located in Sunningdale, Berkshire, on 9 December 1973.Unionist opposition, violence and...	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west... , United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
1976	"National Day of Protest" General Strike	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
1988	Spanish general strike of 1988 Spanish general strike of 1988 Spain's 1988 general strike took place on December 14, and in Spain it is simply called 14-D . It was called by the two main trade unions: CCOO and Unión General de Trabajadores ....	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
1989	Czechoslovak general strike of 1989 (2 hours)	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
1992	April 1992 general strike in Nepal	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
1998	1998 Puerto Rican General Strike 1998 Puerto Rican general strike The Puerto Rican general strike of 1998 began as a strike of Puerto Rico Telephone Company workers to protest a government privatization plan. Three weeks later, an estimated 500,000 people joined a two-day general strike, bringing commerce and travel in Puerto Rico to a standstill...	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
2002–2003	Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 The Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, also known as the oil strike or oil lockout, was an attempt by the Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chávez to force a new presidential election. It took place from December 2002 to February 2003, although within this period the effectiveness of the...	Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
2006	2006 democracy movement in Nepal 2006 democracy movement in Nepal The 2006 Democracy Movement is a name given to the political agitations against the direct and undemocratic rule of King Gyanendra of Nepal. The movement is also sometimes referred to as Jana Andolan-II , implying it being a continuation of the 1990 Jana Andolan.-Reinstitution of Parliament:In a...	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
2007	2007 Guinea general strike	Guinea Guinea Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
2008	2008 Egyptian general strike 2008 Egyptian general strike The 2008 Egyptian general strike was a strike which occurred on 6 April 2008, by Egyptian workers, primarily in the state-run textile industry, in response to low wages and rising food costs. Strikes are illegal in Egypt and authorities have been given orders to break demonstrations forcefully in...	Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
2011	2011 Oakland general strike 2011 Oakland general strike The Oakland General Strike of 2011 was a general strike held in Oakland, California on November 2, 2011 as part of the larger Occupy Oakland movement. -General strike:...	Oakland, California Oakland, California Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Sources

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)

External links

• 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