List of strikes

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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

Date	Strike	Location
1619	Polish craftsmen strike	Jamestown, Virginia colony
1636	Indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny	Province of Maine
1661	Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot	Virginia colony
1663	Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike	Province of Maryland
1675	Boston ship carpenter's Protest	Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony
1676	Bacon's Rebellion	Virginia colony
1677	New York City Carters' Strike	Province of New York
1684	New York City Carters' Strike	Province of New York

Eighteenth century

Date	Strike	Location
1741	New York City Bakers' Strike	New York City, Province of New York
1763	Charleston Chimney Sweepers' Strike	Charleston, Province of Carolina
1768	Florida Indentured Servants' Revolt	East Florida
1768	New York City Tailors' Strike	New York City, Province of New York
1774	Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike	Hibernia, Province of New Jersey
1786	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Printers Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1787	Calton Weavers Strike	Calton, Glasgow, Scotland
1791	Philadelphia Carpenters – First Strike in the U.S. building trades	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1792	Philadelphia River Pilots' Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Nineteenth century

1800–1850

Date	Strike	Location
1806	Philadelphia shoemakers' strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1824	Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike	Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
1825	Boston House Carpenters' Strike	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
1827	Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Cocheco Mills Strike (1828, Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.)
• Paterson, New Jersey, Textile Strike (1828, U.S.)
• Lynn, Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1831, U.S.)
• Boston Ship Carpenters' Ten-hour Strike (1832, U.S.)
• Lynn. Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1833, U.S.)
• Manayunk. Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1833, U.S.)
• New York City Carpenters' Strike (1833, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1834, U.S.)
• Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1834, U.S.)
• 1835 Boston Carpenters Strike (1835, U.S.)
• 1835 Philadelphia General Strike (1835, U.S.)
• 1835 Paterson Textile Strike (1835, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Bookbinders' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Kashmiri Silk Workers protests on 6th July 1847
• Burra Copper Miners' Strike (1848, Australia)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)

1850–1899

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

Twentieth century

1900s

• Diamond Workers Strike (1900, Amsterdam)
• St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 (1900, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Penrhyn Quarry strike (1900) (1900–1903, Wales, U.K.)
• Australian Workers strike (23rd Jan, 1900, Aust.)
• U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903–1904, U.S.)
• Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.)
• Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)
• Fall River Textile Strike (1904) (July 25, 1904, U.S.)
• 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 (1905, Sonora, Mexico)
• Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907, U.S.)
• Río Blanco Strike (1907, Mexico)
• San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907 (U.S.)
• Pensacola streetcar operators' strike (1908, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.)
• New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)
• Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)
• Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, U.S.)
• Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)

1910s

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

1920s

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

1930s

• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Tampa cigar makers' strike (1931, U.S.)
• Santa Clara Cannery Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)
• Harlan County War, Harlan County, Kentucky (1931, U.S.)
• Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)
• California Pea Pickers' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Century Airlines pilots' strike (1932, U.S.)
• Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)
• Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)
• Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)
• California Farmworkers' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)
• New Mexico Miners' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)
• Kohler Strike, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1934, U.S.)
• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.)
• 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.)
• 1936 Syrian general strike (1936, Syria)
• Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seafarer's Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1936, U.S.)
• S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)
• Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 (U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936–1937, U.S.)
• Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)
• Little Steel Strike including Memorial Day massacre of 1937 (U.S.)
• Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Strike (1937, Maine, U.S.)
• Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Hilo Massacre (1938, (Territory of Hawaii)
• Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)
• General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

• Ford Motor Strike (1939, U.S.)
• Disney animators' strike (1939, U.S.)

1940s

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

1950s

• Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)
• "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)
• General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
• New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)
• 1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)
• Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)
• The Hartal of 1953 (1953, Sri Lanka)
• Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)
• UNITE Strike (1955, U.S.)
• Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)
• Musicians Union strike (1958, U.S.)
• Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

1960s

• General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)
• 1960 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1960–1961 Winter General Strike (Wallonia)
• 1962 New York City newspaper strike (1962, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)
• Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)
• 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike (1964–5, Australia)
• Delano grape strike (1965–1970, U.S.)
• 1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)
• Gurindji strike (1966, Australia)
• St. John's University strike of 1966–67 (U.S.)
• Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots
• Railroad machinists' strike of 1967 (U.S.)
• Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)
• May 1968 in France
• Memphis Sanitation Strike (1968, U.S.)
• Chrysler wildcat strike (1968, U.S.)
• New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968 (U.S.)
• Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 (U.S.)
• Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)
• Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot
• The President National Strike (1969, US)

1970s

• Colour Strike (1970–1971, UK)
• National Student Campus Strike (1970, U.S.)also related to Kent State Shootings (May, 1970, U.S.)
• Salad Bowl strike (1970–1971, U.S.)
• U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees
• General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)
• New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)
• Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.)
• 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike (1971, UK)
• Farrah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)
• Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Teachers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• UK miners' strike (1972) (UK)
• 1974 railway strike in India by 17 million workers of Indian Railways in 1974 (India)
• 1974 Washington Bus Strike
• 1974 Baltimore teacher's strike, municipal workers' strike, and police strike (U.S.)
• 1974 UPR strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)
• Ulster Workers' Council Strike (1974, UK)
• UK miners' strike (1974) (UK)
• Washington Post Pressmen's Strike (1975, U.S.)
• Musician's Union Strike (1975, U.S.)
• Japan National Railway Workers Union seven-days strike (1975, Japan)
• Grunwick Dispute (1976–1977) London
• Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)
• 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.)
• 1978 New York City newspaper strike
• Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)
• Winter of Discontent (1978–1979, UK)
• Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)
• Art Strike 1977–1980
• 1979 ITV strike

1980s

• 1980 General strike, Sri Lanka
• 1980 Swedish labour conflict
• 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)
• 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)
• Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981, U.S.)
• Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)
• 1981 UPR strike
• 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)
• Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)
• UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
• Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation (1984, UK)
• Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Mudginberri dispute (1985, Northern Territory, Australia)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Chicago Tribune Strike (1986, U.S.)
• Dollar Sweets dispute (1986, Australia)
• Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike (1986, U.S.)
• Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants' Strike (1986, U.S.)
• United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Major Indoor Soccer League Lockout two-week lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Wapping dispute (1986, UK)
• Philadelphia Sanitary Workers' Strike (1986, U.S.)
• Bollywood Strike (1987, India)
• The Great Workers' Struggle (1987, South Korea)
• International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)
• Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)
• 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike
• 1988 VSEL Barrow in Furness strike (U.K.)
• 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1989 Australian pilots' strike
• Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1989, U.S.)
• Bell Atlantic Strike (August 1989)
• Nynex Strike (August 1989) Lasted 4 months.
• Pittston Coal strike (1989–90, U.S.)

1990s

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

Twenty-first century

2000s

• Verizon Strike (August 2000)
• Jeffboat wildcat strike (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 (2003)
• 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike (US)
• 2003 June 15 Hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel.
• Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003–2004 (U.S)
• 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)
• 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball strike
• 2004–05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)
• Bolivian Gas War (2005)
• 2005 Lakeside Packers Strike (Canada)
• 2005 New York City transit strike
• 2005 UPR strike (Puerto Rico)
• Dhaka strikes (2006, Bangladesh)
• 2006 USW Strike (U.S. and Canada)
• 2006 AK Steel Strike (U.S.)
• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)
• 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)
• South Korean railroad strike of 2006
• 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike (Canada)
• University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)
• 2006–2007 Palace Casino Strike (Canada)
• 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike (U.S.)
• 2007 South African public servants' strike
• 2007 Orange County transit strike (U.S.)
• Hayward teachers strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 General Motors strike (U.S.)
• 2007 Chrysler Autoworkers strike (U.S.)
• 2007 UK postal strikes
• 2007 St. Petersburg Ford Motors Strike (Russia)
• 2007 United Space Alliance strike (U.S.)
• 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike (U.S)
• SEMCO Energy Gas Company Strike (2007, U.S.)
• Port of Napier Strike (2007, New Zealand)
• November 2007 strikes in France
• German national rail strike of 2007
• 2007-Pantex Security Guards Strike
• 2007 South Africa miners' strike
• 2007–2008 Cork players strike
• 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike (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 (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)
• 2008 VIVA bus operators strike (Canada)
• 2008 Bollywood strike
• 2008 Timmins Ont. "Met" Site strike (October)
• Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008
• 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes
• 2008–09 York University Strike (Canada)
• 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (Canada)
• Via Rail strike (Canada)
• Art Strike Biennial, Alytus, August 2009
• 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike
• 2009 UK postal strikes
• 2009 McMaster University Strike (Canada)

2010s

• 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike
• 2010 The Cast of Jersey Shore
• 2010 Scottish football referee strike
• 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike
• 2010 Spirit Airlines Pilot Strike (USA)
• 2011 NBA Lockout later resumed in December
• 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 quarantine workers strike (Australia)
• 2011 Brandon University Faculty Association (Manitoba, Canada)
• 2011-2012 York Region Transit strike
• 2012 Chicago teachers' strike
• 2012 Bakers Union Strike - Forced the liquidation of the Hostess Brand.
• 2012 New England Healthcare Employees Union - HealthBridge strike
• 2012 English Doctors on 24 hour strike
• 2013 Hong Kong dock strike
• 2013 The world's longest strike ended by the hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago.
• 2014 Aer Lingus cabin crew 24 hour strike

Chronological list of general strikes

Date	Name	Location
1820	1820 Rising	Scotland
1842	1842 General Strike	England
1877	Saint Louis General Strike	Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
1886	Walloon jacquerie of 1886	Wallonia
1887	1887 sugar cane workers	St. Mary, Terrebonne ,and Lafourche parishes, Louisiana, United States
1892	New Orleans General Strike	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
1893	Belgian general strike of 1893	Belgium Mons
1909	1909 Swedish General Strike	Sweden
1910	Philadelphia General Strike	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1912	1912 Brisbane General Strike	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1918	Vancouver general strike	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1919	Seattle General Strike	Seattle, Washington, United States
1919	Winnipeg General Strike	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1920	Italian, Anti-Fascist General Strike	Italy
1920	December General Strike (one week)	Czechoslovakia
1926	UK general strike of 1926	United Kingdom
1933	French general strike of 1933	France
1934	San Francisco general strike of 1934	San Francisco, California, United States
1936	Palestinian general strike	Palestine
1942	1942 Luxembourg General Strike	Luxembourg
1946	1946 Oakland general strike	Oakland, California, United States
1950	General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
1953	Uprising of 1953	East Germany
1956	Yleislakko 1956	Finland
1960–1961	1960–1961 Winter General Strike	Belgium Wallonia
1968	French general strike of May 1968	France
1973	Uruguay general strike of 1973	Uruguay
1974	Ulster Workers' Council Strike	Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
1976	"National Day of Protest" General Strike	Canada
1988	Spanish general strike of 1988	Spain
1989	Czechoslovak general strike of 1989 (2 hours)	Czechoslovakia
1992	April 1992 general strike in Nepal	Nepal
1998	1998 Puerto Rican General Strike	Puerto Rico
2002–2003	Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003	Venezuela
2006	2006 democracy movement in Nepal	Nepal
2007	2007 Guinea general strike	Guinea
2008	2008 Egyptian general strike	Egypt
2011	2011 Oakland general strike	Oakland, California, United States
2012	2012 USA May Day general strike	United States
2013	2013 protests in Brazil	Brazil

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 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
• The Long War at Staley