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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 important in factories and mines...

Timeline of Events

1892

7.1.1892

The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.

7.6.1892

3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.

11.8.1892

The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

1894

9.4.1894

In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

1902

10.21.1902

In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

1917

7.12.1917

The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.

1927

11.21.1927

Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

1934

4.12.1934

The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.

1952

4.8.1952

U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.

1981

8.5.1981

Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

10.22.1981

The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.

1998

6.5.1998

A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).