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number 25 the Royal Mail industrial
dispute starting in the summer of 2009
and continuing for a year the strike
left millions of mail packages
undelivered basically Royal Mail was
planning to start replacing some jobs
with machines but they wouldn't come
clean about the exact agenda number 24
the Boeing strike in 2008 when unionized
machinists working for Boeing commercial
aircraft assembly plants went on an
eight-week strike in September of 2008
it was reported that the company lost
more than two billion dollars in profits
number 23 Southern California grocery
store strikes in 2003 the four-month
strike of the 7,000 member United Food
and Commercial Workers Union resulted in
the collective two billion dollar loss
for three major grocery store chains
over nine hundred stores of Vons routes
and Albertsons were affected number 22
UPS workers strike 1997 with more than a
hundred and eighty-five thousand UPS
Teamsters walking out from the united
Parcel Service the company lost nearly
600 million dollars before they agreed
to start hiring full-time number 21
Greyhound bus strikes in 1990 nearly
10,000 Greyhound bus drivers and other
office workers walked out on the company
in 1990 as a protest for their stagnant
wages the three-year strike initially
stranded thousands of passengers across
the country and also forced the company
to spend 20 million dollars to train a
replacement drivers number 20 salad bowl
strike in 1970 a series of strikes mass
demonstrations and boycotts which began
on August 23rd 1970 Deas are often
considered the largest farm worker
strike in US history
number 19 u.s. postal service strike
1970 the first nationwide strike of
public employees almost a quarter
million US postal workers from New York
City went on a strike in March 1970 to
engage in collective bargaining
agreements which they were not allowed
to do at that time number 18 the General
Electric strike of 1969 when the
unionized workers of General Electric
went for coordinated strikes against the
company in the fall of 1969 reports had
it that it cost the company almost
eighty million dollars number 17 the
steel strike of 1959 though a number of
strikes organized by steel workers were
futile in the past
this is one of those that proves to be
to their advantage while the steel
industry profits were skyrocketing in
1959 the half-a-million United Steel
Workers of America felt that they had a
right to demand higher wages from the
major steelmaking companies of the day
number 16
asbestos strike of 1949 this four-month
labor dispute among the miners of for of
asbestos mines around asbestos Quebec
occurred on February 14th 1949 a turning
point in Quebec history that led to the
quiet revolution is started with the
union workers demands of eliminating
asbestos dust inside and outside of the
mill fifteen cents an hour general wage
increased five cent increase for night
work and the implementation of the
social security fund number fifteen
bitumen is coal strike 1946 from April
to December 1946 almost 400,000 bitumen
as coal miners from the United Mine
Workers of America went on a strike for
safer working conditions health benefits
and pay just as the national economy of
the United States was recovering from
the ill effects of World War two the
strike threatened to affect twenty-six
states number fourteen the Hawaiian
sugar strike of 1946 the seventy nine
day strike which resulted in a loss of
fifteen million dollars to sugar
producers started when nearly 30,000
workers from thirty-three different
sugar plantations protested for higher
wages and better working conditions
against the big five sugar producers in
Hawaii number thirteen Toledo Autolite
strike in 1934 the passing of the
National Industrial Recovery Act on June
16th 1933 led to general union
organizing in the u.s. once obscene
called the American Federation of Labor
organizes a strike from April 12th to
June 13th against the electric Autolite
Company in Toledo Ohio after a scuffle
with the Ohio National Guard and what
has come to be known as the Battle of
Toledo two strikers were dead and more
than 200 wounded number 12 Ford hunger
march 1932 also called the ford massacre
this was a demonstration of unemployed
workers from Detroit and Dearborn
Michigan
on march 7 1932 against the Ford Motor
Company the skirmishes between the
Dearborn Police Department and the
workers led to the death of four workers
and injuries of sixty others number 11
Battle of Blair Mountain in nineteen
twenty-one considered one of the largest
civil uprisings in the United States
this five-day open rebellion in August
of 1921 involved 10,000 armed coal
miners confronting 3,000 lawmen and
strike Raiders in Logan County West
Virginia number 10 police strikes of
1919 the swiftness and the Solidarity of
the 12,000 members of the metropolitan
force under the National Union of police
and prison officers on August 29th 1918
shocked the British government as it was
just reeling from domestic and
international labor unrest their demands
which included wage increase progressive
war bonuses and the shortening of
pension settlements were eventually met
number 9 Dublin lock out of 1913 this
major industrial dispute which occurred
on August 26 1913 in Dublin Ireland was
between the 20,000 workers of the Irish
Transport in general workers union and
300 employers the most significant
severe industrial dispute ever in Irish
history the lockout was unsuccessful in
achieving better pay number 8 the
Colorado coal strike of 1914 this strike
started in the tent colony of nearly
1,200 coal miners and their families in
Ludlow Colorado and it resulted in the
deaths of 25 people with some being
burnt to death and asphyxiated in their
tents number 7 New York Shirtwaist
strike 1909 the first successful female
labor strike in American history was
done primarily by Jewish women working
in Shirtwaist factories in New York it
successfully managed to increase wages
get better working conditions and have
more flexible hours
number six great anthracite coal strike
of 1902 also known as the coal strike of
1902 this turn-of-the-century strike by
the 150,000 members of the United Mine
Workers of America occurred from May to
September of the same year in the coal
fields of eastern Pennsylvania as miners
protested for higher wages shorter work
days and the recognition of their union
it threatened to create an energy crisis
that would diminish the winter fuel
supply to all major cities number five
the Latimer strike of 1897 the violent
death of 19 unarmed striking coal miners
in Latimer mine in Hazleton Pennsylvania
became the turning point for the United
Mine Workers mostly of Polish Lithuanian
Slovak and German descent these 19
victims were shot by the local sheriff's
posse and as a result
UMW saw dramatic upsurge of more than
10,000 new members number for the
Pullman Strike in 1894 due to 12 hour
work days and wage cuts 4000 employees
of the Pullman Palace car company went
on a strike from May 11th to mid July
1894 in Pullman Illinois they were later
joined by quarter million workers from
the American railway Union this had the
effect of shutting down most of the
nation's freight and passenger traffic
number three great Southwest railroad
strike 1886 from March to September 1886
about 200,000 workers went on a labor
strike against the owner of the Union
Pacific in Missouri Pacific Jay Gould a
robber baron who is considered one of
the most ruthless industrialists of his
time members of the Knights of Labor
went on a labor union strike the
protests unsafe working conditions and
unfair wages number 2 the eight-hour
strikes of 1867 shortly following the
Civil War Chicago saw a good amount of
labor related unrest one of the largest
was on May 2nd in 1867 when the first
traders assembly organized the general
strike with thousands of workers to
enforce the enactment of the new
eight-hour day law number one carlton
weaver strike 1787 one of the earliest
major industrial disputes in scottish
history
it occurred on colton a hand weaving
community just outside of Glasgow in the
summer of 1787 it stemmed from the
development of mechanizations and growth
and labor force that severely depressed
wages as workers protests in the streets
of Glasgow some Scottish troops fired on
demonstrators killing six people
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