List of strikes

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

Chronological list of strikes

Seventeenth Century

• Maine indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny (1636, British Colonies)
• Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot (1661, British Colonies)
• Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike (1663, British Colonies)
• Boston ship Carpenter's Protest (1675 British Colonies)
• Bacon's Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British Colonies)
• New York City Carters' Strike (1677, British Colonies)
• New York City Carters' Strike (1684, British Colonies)

Eighteenth Century

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

Nineteenth century

• Philadelphia shoemakers guilty of criminal conspiracy after striking for higher wages (1806, U.S.)
• Pawtucket Rhode Island, Textile Strike (1824, U.S.)
• Boston House Carpenters' Strike (1825, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike (1827, U.S.)
• Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1828, U.S.)
• Lynn Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1831, U.S.)
• Boston Ship Carpenters' Ten-hour Strike (1832, U.S.)
• Lynn Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1833, U.S.)
• Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1833, U.S.)
• New York City Carpenters' Strike (1833, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1834, U.S.)
• Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1834, U.S.)
• Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1835, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Bookbinders' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)
• New England Shoemakers' Strike (1860, U.S.)
• Molders' Lockout (1866, U.S.)
• Sheffield Outrages (1860s, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1868, U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1869, U.S.)
• Lynn Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1872, U.S.)
• Tompkins Square Riot (1874, New York, U.S.]]
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1875, U.S.)
• 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.)
• Southwest Railroad Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 (U.S.)
• Haymarket Riot (1886, U.S.)
• Bay View Tragedy (1886, U.S.)
• Port of New York, Longshoremens' Strike (1887, U.S.)
• Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout (1888, U.S.)
• Matchgirls Strike (1888, London)
• London Dock Strike of 1889
• Baseball Players' Revolt (1889, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)
• 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute
• Southampton Dock Strike of 1890 (UK)
• Carpenters' Strike for the Eight-Hour Day (1890, U.S.)
• 1891 Australian shearers' strike
• Savanna Georgia, Black Laborers' Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Tennessee Miners' Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Homestead Strike (1892, U.S.) gains national attention
• Buffalo switchmen's strike (1892, U.S.)
• Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1892, U.S.)
• Coxey's Army marches on Washington D.C. (1894, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 (U.S.)
• Pullman Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Great Northern Railroad Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike (1894) Birmingham, Alabama
• Haverhill Massachusetts Shoe Strike (1895, U.S.)
• Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike (1896))
• Lattimer Massacre Strike (1897) (Pennsylvania)
• Marlboro Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Buffalo New York, Grain Shovellers' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Cleveland Ohio, Street Railway Workers' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• The Newsboys Strike (1899, New York City, U.S.)

1900s

• Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Penrhyn Quarry lock-out (1900-1903, Wales)
• U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• The Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903-1904, U.S.)
• Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.) Sugar Beets
• Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)
• New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike 991904, U.S.)
• Packinghouse Workers' Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907 U.S.)
• New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)
• Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)
• McKees Rocks Pennsylvania, Steel Strike (1909, U.S.)
• Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s

• Bethlehem Steel Strike (1910, U.S.)
• Cloakmakers' Strike (1910, U.S.)
• Chicago Clothing Workers' Strike (1910, U.S.)
• Los Angeles Strike Wave (1910, U.S.)
• Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911 (U.S.)
• 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)
• Illinois Central and Harriman Lines Rail Strike (1911, U.S.)
• Southern Lumber Operators' Strike (1911, U.S.)
• Lawrence textile strike, often known as the Bread and Roses strike (1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts)
• Waihi miners' strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)
• Chicago Newspaper Strike (1912, U.S.)
• Fur Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)
• Lawrence Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1912, U.S.)
• Lousisiana Timber Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)
• New York City Hotel Strike (1912, U.S.)
• West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913 (U.S.)
• Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)
• Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, Colorado)
• Paterson silk strike (1913, Paterson, New Jersey)
• Machinists' Strike and Boycott (1913 U.S.)
• Michigan Copper Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Studebaker Motors Auto Workers' Strike (1913, U.S.)
• Wheatland California Hop Riot 1913, U.S.)
• Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Strike 1914, U.S.)
• Burston Strike School (1914-1939, UK)
• Standard Oil Strike (1915, U.S.)
• Youngstown Ohio, Steel Strike (1915, U.S.)
• Arizona Copper Strike (1916, U.S.)
• Minnesota Iron Range Strike (1916, U.S.)
• New York City, Transit Strike (1916, U.S.)
• New York City, Cloakmakers' Strike (1916, U.S.)
• Standard Oil Strike (1916, U.S.)
• Bisbee Arizona, Miners' Strike (1917, U.S.)
• Butte Montana, Miners' Strike (1917, U.S.)
• East Saint Louis Riot (1917, U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1917, U.S.)
• BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)
• Vancouver general strike (1918, Canada)
• Police officers' strike, (1918-19) United Kingdom
• Centralia Massacre (Washington) (1919, U.S.)
• Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)
• Actors' Strike (1919, U.S.)
• Centralia Washington Massacre (1919, U.S.)
• New England Telephone Strike (1919, U.S.)
• 1919 Battle of George Square (UK)
• Seattle General Strike of 1919
• Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)
• Winnipeg General Strike (1919, Canada)

1920s

• Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)
• Alabama Miners' Strike (1920, U.S.)
• Clothing Workers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)
• West Virginia Coal Wars (1920-21, U.S.)
• Battle of Blair Mountain (1921, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1921, U.S.)
• Black Friday (1921) (UK)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (U.S.)
• Herrin massacre (1922, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1922, U.S.)
• 1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)
• Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)
• Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)
• Columbine Mine Massacre Strike (1927, U.S.)
• New Bedford Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1928, U.S.)
• Banana massacre (1928, Colombia)
• 1929 Timber Workers strike (Australia)
• Lupeni Strike of 1929 (Romania)
• Rothbury Riot (1929, Australia)
• Loray Mill Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Gastonia North Carolina, Textile Strike (1929, U.S.)

1930s

• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Harlan County Kentucky, Miners' Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Tampa Florida, Cigar Workers' Strike(1931, U.S.)
• Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)
• Battle of Evarts (1931, U.S.)
• Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)
• Bonus Army March on Washington D.C. (1932, U.S.)
• California Pea Pickers' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Century Airlines Pilots' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)
• Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)
• Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)
• California Farmworkers' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)
• New Mexico Miners' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)
• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo Ohio, U.S.)
• Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)
• 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)
• NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935, Canada)
• Copperbelt strike (1935) (Zambia)
• Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers' strike (1935, U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)
• On-to-Ottawa Trek (1935)
• Southern Sharecroppers' and Farm Laborers' Strike (1935, U.S.)
• Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)
• General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seamens' Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1936, U.S.)
• S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)
• Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937 (U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936-1937, U.S.)
• Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)
• Memorial Day massacre of 1937 "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)
• Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Hilo Hawaii Massacre (1938, U.S.)
• Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)
• General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s

• Ford Motor Strike (1940, U.S.)
• Disney animators' strike (1941, U.S.)
• Allis-Chalmers Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Captive Coal Miners' Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1941, U.S.)
• February Strike (1941, Netherlands)
• International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)
• New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)
• North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)
• 1942 Luxembourg General Strike (1942, Luxembourg)
• 1942-43 musicians' strike (U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)
• Hollywood Black Friday (U.S.)
• Philadelphia Transit Strike (1944, U.S.)
• Port Chicago mutiny (1944, U.S.)
• Kelsey-Hayes Strike (1945, U.S.)
• New York City Longshoreman's Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Montgomery Ward Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Oil Workers' Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)
• General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)
• 1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)
• Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada
• 1949 Australian coal strike (1949)
• Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

1950s

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

1960s

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

1970s

• Colour Strike (1970-1971, UK)
• 1970 UPR Strike
• U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees
• General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)
• New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)
• Farrah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)
• Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Teachers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Coal miners' strike of 1973 (UK)
• Baltimore police strike (1974, U.S.)
• 1974 UPR strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)
• Ulster Workers' Council Strike (1974, UK)
• Washington Post Pressmen's Strike (1975, U.S.)
• Grunwick Dispute (1976-1977) London
• Coors Beer Strike and Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• J.P. Stevens Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• Willmar Minnesota, Bank Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977-1978 (U.S.)
• Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike (1978, U.S.)
• Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)
• Winter of Discontent (1978-1979, UK)
• Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)

1980s

• 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)
• 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)
• Air traffic controllers' strike (1981, U.S.)
• Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)
• 1981 UPR strike
• 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)
• Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)
• UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)
• Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants' Strike (1986, U.S.)
• United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Major Indoor Soccer League I Lockout two-week lockout (1986 U.S.)
• Wapping dispute (1986, UK)
• International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)
• Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)
• 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1989 Australian pilots' strike
• Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)
• Pittston Coal Strike (1989-90, U.S.)

1990s

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

2000s

• National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)
• Actors Strike 2001
• UK Firefighter strike 2002
• AFSCME, CUE, UPTE - one day Strikes against University of California (2003, U.S.)
• Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike - 2003
• 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)
• 2004-05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)
• Bolivian Gas War (2005)
• 2005 New York City transit strike
• 2005 UPR strike
• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)
• 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)
• South Korean railroad strike of 2006
• 2006 TTC wildcat strike
• University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)
• 2007 South African public servants' strike
• 2007 Orange County transit strike
• Hayward teachers strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 General Motors strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 Chrysler Autoworkers strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 UK postal strikes (2007, UK)

Chronological list of general strikes

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

See also

• Timeline of Labor unions in the United States

Sources

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

External links

• Chronology of general strikes
• List of labor events in U.S. history
• List of recent strikes
• Recent strikes and other labour news