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7 unusual facts about Strike action


1925 Stanley Cup Finals

However, the Tigers were suspended after Hamilton players staged a strike in an attempt to receive more compensation because the league extended the regular season from 24 to 30 games.

Carlos Luis Fallas

After a bloody clash between striking workers and the police, a judge sentenced him in 1933 one year of banishment in the Atlantic coast.

Education in Comoros

Routinely announced reductions in force among the civil service, often made in response to international pressure for fiscal reform, sometimes result in teacher strikes.

Niles West High School

In 1996, the Niles Township Federation of Teachers went on a strike for two weeks over negotiations with administrators.

Recognition strike

A recognition strike is an industrial strike implemented in order to force a particular employer or industry to recognize a trade union as the legitimate collective bargaining agent for a company's workers.

Ted Mallie

After WOR's FM outlet (now WRKS-FM) launched its progressive rock format on July 30, 1966, he even served a spell as a disc jockey for a time, due to a strike by its regular disc jockeys that lasted until October of that year.

Wayne L. Horvitz

Wayne Louis Horvitz (October 8, 1920 – June 17, 2009) was an American labor negotiator, who served as director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, where he played a major role in resolving and preventing major strikes in business and industries nationwide.


1911 in Scotland

March–April - Eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation.

1971 Harco work-in

After a round of sackings in November 1971, the workers decided that strike action, common at the site, was no longer an effective tactic for confronting management.

Alain Hamer

Hamer was one of the referees who agreed to officiate Scottish Premier League matches in November 2010 after strike action was announced by the Scottish referees association.

Amelia Milka Sablich

Amelia "Mildred" Milka Sablich (born 11 Jun 1908 in Trinidad, Colorado, died 7 Oct 1994 in Helper, Utah) also known as Flaming Milka, was 19 years old when she became a leader in the 1927 coal strike in that state.

August Gillhaus

In 1908, Gillhaus was substituted for the original nominee, “Morrie” Preston, a miner who was arrested on murder charges during a citywide strike in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1907.

Auto-Lite strike

The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934.

Central Única dos Trabalhadores

Alongside the Workers' Party (PT) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), CUT was one of the key organizations to challenge the military rule of 1964–1985 during its final stages, organizing strikes in automobile factories located in the ABC Region.

Edward Joseph Gardner

During his term, he supported a temporary extension of wartime price controls and the draft and the right to strike.

Gotthold Gloger

Because of his participation in a strike of the harbor workers in Marseille, he would be arrested and seized for a while in a military prison in Strasbourg.

In Dubious Battle

The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (possibly the American Communist Party or the Industrial Workers of the World, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by fruit pickers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause.

Istanbul metalworkers strike of 2008–09

The Istanbul metalworkers strike of 2008-2009 was a strike by metalworkers at a sintering plant in Istanbul, Turkey.

Joseph Johnstone

It was founded following revolutionary activities in Russia, French army mutinies and a series of labour strikes in Britain in May 1917.

Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party

This party had been organised by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour with the support of the Canadian Labour Congress, to protest the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike.

Red Clydeside

The 11,000 workers at the largest factory of Singer sewing machines factory, in Clydebank, went on strike in March–April 1911, ceasing to work in solidarity of 12 female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation.

Thomas Birtwistle

When there were strikes at Padiham in 1859) and Colne in 1860, he was elected to the council of the new North-East Lancashire Powerloom Weavers' Association.

Weapons of Happiness

Weapons of Happiness is a 1976 political play by Howard Brenton about a strike in a London crisp factory.

William Trenwith

He was instrumental in coordinating the 1884 bootmakers' strike from Melbourne Trades Hall, which saw Victoria's first fullscale picketing and was an important campaign in the fight against sweated labour.


see also

Art Strike 1990–1993

"Art Strike Action Committees", often run by single activists, existed in London, Ireland, Baltimore, Albany/NY, San Francisco, Montevideo, and Uruguay.

Maximum wage

Association football retained the maximum wage until January 1961, at which point it was abolished after Jimmy Hill, chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, threatened strike action.

Nycole Turmel

Moments after the second plane flew into the World Trade Center in New York, Turmel, on behalf of PSAC members, suspended their legal strike action, with PSAC members returning to work providing services to Canadians and thousands of airline passengers from around the world.

Snack Foods Limited

The ACTU also publicly condemned the strike action, saying the CWU’s 36-hour claim was "outside the Accord".

Spanair

A report in The Times on the day of the Madrid crash suggests that staff were threatening strike action due to concerns about the company's viability.