List of strikes


The following is a list of specific strikes and general strikes.

Chronological list of strikes

Nineteenth century

1800–1849

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1818Manchester Mill Worker's StrikeNew HampshireUnited States
1824Slater's Mill Women's StrikeRhode IslandUnited States
1828New Hampshire Mill Women's StrikeNew HampshireUnited States
1833Four pennies riotAnzinFrance
1834Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's StrikeLowell, MassachusettsUnited States
1835Textile strikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States
1835Washington Navy Yard labor strikeWashington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.United States
1835New England Mill StrikeNew EnglandUnited States
1835Philadelphia General StrikePhiladelphiaUnited States
1836Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's StrikeLowell, MassachusettsUnited States

1850–1899

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1853–1854Preston strike of 1853–1854Preston, LancashireUnited Kingdom
1859London builders' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1860New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860Lynn, MassachusettsUnited States
1864Collar Laundry Union strikeTroy, New YorkUnited States
1865Upper Peninsula miners' strikeMarquette, MichiganUnited States
18671867 Chinese Labor StrikeSierra Nevada, CaliforniaUnited States
1870North Adams strikeNorth Adams, MassachusettsUnited States
1872Eight hour day strikeNew York CityUnited States
1872Gas Stokers' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1872Metropolitan Police strike of 1872LondonUnited Kingdom
1873Coal miners' strike of 1873northeastern Ohio, northwestern PennsylvaniaUnited States
1874Tompkins Square RiotNew York CityUnited States
1877Great Railroad StrikenationwideUnited States
1877–1878Cigar makers' strike of 1877New York CityUnited States
18811881 Atlanta washerwomen strikeAtlantaUnited States
1883Camp Dump strikeOmaha, NebraskaUnited States
1886Great Southwest railroad strikenationwideUnited States
1886Haymarket affairChicago, IllinoisUnited States
1886Bay View massacreMilwaukee, WisconsinUnited States
1887Thibodaux massacre Lafourche Parish, LouisianaUnited States
1888Burlington railroad strikeChicago, Burlington and Quincy RailroadUnited States
1888Matchgirls' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1889London dock strikeLondon, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1889Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889OsloSweden-Norway
1890Southampton Dock strikeSouthampton, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1890Maritime disputeMelbourneAustralia
1891Australian shearers' strikeQueenslandAustralia
1891Cotton pickers' strike of 1891Lee County, ArkansasUnited States
1891Coal Creek War Anderson County, TennesseeUnited States
1892Miners' strikeBroken HillAustralia
1892Homestead strike Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1892Buffalo switchmen's strikeBuffalo, New YorkUnited States
1892Coeur d'Alene labor strikeCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1893UK miners' strikenationwideUnited Kingdom
1894Pullman StrikePullman, ChicagoUnited States
1894Great Northern Railway strikenationwideUnited States
1894Bituminous coal miners' strikenationwideUnited States
1895Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strikeYaroslavl, Yaroslavl GovernorateRussian Empire
1896Leadville miners' strikeLeadville, ColoradoUnited States
1897Lattimer massacreLattimer, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1898South Wales coal strikeWalesUnited Kingdom
1899Coeur d'Alene labor confrontationCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1899Weight StrikeYbor City, Tampa, FloridaUnited States
1899Newsboys' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1899Russian student strikeSt. Petersburg UniversityRussian Empire

Twentieth century

1910s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1910–1911Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911Westmoreland County, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1910–1911Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11Tampa, FloridaUnited States
1910Clockmakers' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1910–19111910 Chicago garment workers' strikeChicagoUnited States
19111911 Liverpool general transport strikeLiverpool, MerseysideUnited Kingdom
1911Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911Illinois, Mississippi and TexasUnited States
19111911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strikeGrand Rapids, MichiganUnited States
19121912 Lawrence textile strike, also called the "Bread and Roses" strikeLawrence, MassachusettsUnited States
1912Waihi miners' strikeWaihiNew Zealand
1911–1912Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912Eastern LouisianaUnited States
1912Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912Kanawha County, West VirginiaUnited States
1912New York City waiters' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1912–19131912–1913 Little Falls textile strikeLittle Falls, New YorkUnited States
1912–13Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912Seattle, WashingtonUnited States
19121912 Brisbane General StrikeBrisbane, QueenslandAustralia
19131913 El Paso smelters' strikeEl Paso, TexasUnited States
1913Dublin strike and lockoutDublinIreland
1913Ludlow MassacreLudlow, ColoradoUnited States
1913Paterson silk strikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States
19131913 Sligo Dock strikeSligoIreland
1913Leith dockers' strike of 1913Leith, Edinburgh, ScotlandUnited Kingdom
19131913 Great StrikenationwideNew Zealand
1913Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913Indianapolis, IndianaUnited States
1913–1914Copper Country strike of 1913–1914Upper MichiganUnited States
1914–1939Bursdon teachers' strikeBurston, NorfolkEngland
1914–19151914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strikeAtlantaUnited States
1915–16Bayonne refinery strikesBayonne, New JerseyUnited States
1915–171915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strikeJohnson County, ArkansasUnited States
19161916 Atlanta streetcar strikeAtlantaUnited States
1916–19171916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strikeMinnesotaUnited States
1917The Great StrikenationwideAustralia
1917–191917–1919 Brazil strike movementnationwideBrazil
19171917 Twin Cities streetcar strikeMinneapolis–Saint PaulUnited States
1918BLE strike in New York CityNew York CityUnited States
1918–19British police strikes in 1918 and 1919nationwideUnited Kingdom
1918–201918–1920 New York City rent strikesNew York CityUnited States
1919Battle of George SquareGlasgowScotland
1919US Strike wave of 1919nationwideUnited States
1919La Canadiense strikeCataloniaSpain
1919Florida Pebble StrikeMulberry, FloridaUnited States
1919Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919BostonUnited States
19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikenationwideUnited States
1919Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States
19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikeNew York CityUnited States
1919Boston Police StrikeBoston, MassachusettsUnited States
1919Steel strike of 1919Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1919Coal strikenationwideUnited States

Twenty-first century

2010s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
20102010 University of Puerto Rico StrikeSan JuanPuerto Rico
20102010 Chinese autoworkers strikeFoshan and ZhongshanChina
20102010 Chinese labour unrestnationwideChina
20102010 Cambodian garment workers strikePhnom PhenCambodia
20102010 Scottish football referee strikenationwideScotland
20102010 Spanish air traffic controllers strikenationwideSpain
20102010 Major League Soccer lockout/strikenationwideUnited States
20102010 Georgia prison strikeGeorgiaUnited States
2010–20112010–2011 Hanjin Heavy Industries strikenationwideSouth Korea and the Philippines
20112011 Shanghai Truckers strikeShanghaiChina
20112011 NBA lockoutnationwideUnited States and Canada
20112011 NFL lockoutnationwideUnited States
2011Zhanaozen massacreMangystau RegionKazakhstan
20112011 Israeli doctors' strikenationwideIsrael
20122012 NFL referee lockoutnationwideUnited States
2012–132012–13 NHL lockoutnationwideUnited States and Canada
20122012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strikeLos Angeles and Long Beach, CaliforniaUnited States
20132013 Southern Weekly incidentGuangzhou, GuangdongChina
20132013 Hong Kong dock strikecitywideHong Kong
20132013 Colombian miners strikeNorthern ColombiaColombia
2014Chinese Golf Factory Workers Strike for Essential RightsShenzhenChina
2014Tacoma nurses strike 2014Tacoma and Lakewood, WashingtonUnited States
20142014 South African platinum strikenationwideSouth Africa
20152015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery StrikeCalifornia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and WashingtonUnited States
20152015 Kohler StrikeKohler, WisconsinUnited States
20162016 Verizon workers' strikeNew York CityUnited States
2016–20172016–2017 video game voice actor strikeLos Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States
20172017 Philippine jeepney drivers' strikenationwidePhilippines
2018–20192018–2019 teachers' strikes in the United StatesnationwideUnited States
20182018 York University strike: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant, and Contract Faculty StrikeYork, OntarioCanada
20182018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strikeTaylorsville, MississippiUnited States
20182018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strikeDeKalb County, GeorgiaUnited States
2018Brazil truck drivers' strikenationwideBrazil
2018Marriott Hotels strikeBethesda, MarylandUnited States
2018Jasic incidentShenzhen, GuangdongChina
2018–20192018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United StatesnationwideUnited States
20182018 Alabama Coca-Cola strikeAlabama and MississippiUnited States
20182018 Atlanta sanitation strikeAtlantaUnited States
2018–presentSchool strike for climateworldwideglobal
20182018–2020 UK higher education strikesnationwideUnited Kingdom
20192019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strikeLos Angeles County, CaliforniaUnited States
2019Wright State University 2019 faculty strikeDayton, OhioUnited States
20192019 Portuguese fuel-tanker drivers' strikenationwidePortugal
20192019 Stop & Shop strikeMassachusetts, Rhode Island and ConnecticutUnited States
20192019 India doctors' strikeWest BengalIndia
20192019 Alaska ferry workers strikeAlaskaUnited States
20192019 AT&T strikeSouthern United StatesUnited States
2019–20202019–2020 French pension reform strikenationwideFrance

2020s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
20202020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strikeSanta Cruz, CaliforniaUnited States
20202020 New Orleans sanitation strikeNew OrleansUnited States
20202020 Bath shipbuilders strikeBath, MaineUnited States
2020Strike for Black LivesNationwideUnited States
20202020 Port of Montreal strikeMontrealCanada
20202020 Michigan graduate students strikeAnn Arbor, MichiganUnited States
20202020 University of Illinois Hospital strikesChicagoUnited States
2020–20212020–2021 Alabama aluminum plant strikeMuscle Shoals, AlabamaUnited States
20212021 Hunts Point Produce Market strikeNew York CityUnited States
20212021 French labor protestsNationwideFrance
20212021 St. Paul Park refinery strikeSt. Paul Park, MinnesotaUnited States
20212021 Go North West strikeManchesterUnited Kingdom
20212021 St. Charles Bend strikeBend, OregonUnited States
20212021 Saint Vincent Hospital strikeWorcester, MassachusettsUnited States
2021–20222021–2022 Columbia University strikeNew York CityUnited States
20212021 Allegheny Technologies strikeNorthern United StatesUnited States
20212021 New York University strikeNew York CityUnited States
2021–20232021–2023 Warrior Met Coal strikeAlabamaUnited States
20212021 Minas Gerais prostitute strikeMinas GeraisBrazil
20212021 Virginia Volvo Trucks strikeDublin, VirginiaUnited States
20212021 Oregon Tech strikeOregonUnited States
20212021 Cook County nurses strikeCook County, IllinoisUnited States
20212021 Frito-Lay strikeTopeka, KansasUnited States
20212021 Nigerian doctors strikeNationwideNigeria
20212021 Nabisco strikeNationwideUnited States
20212021 Heaven Hill strikeBardstown, KentuckyUnited States
20212021 Washington state carpenters strikeWashingtonUnited States
20212021 Mercy Hospital strikeBuffalo, New YorkUnited States
20212021 Kellogg's strikeNationwideUnited States
20212021 John Deere strikeNationwideUnited States
20212021 Kaiser Permanente strikeNationwideUnited States
20222022 UPM Paperworkers' strikeNationwideFinland
20222022 Minneapolis teacher's strikeMinneapolisUnited States
20222022 University of California academic workers' strikeCaliforniaUnited States
20222022 British barristers' industrial actionNationwideUnited Kingdom
20222022 BT Group strikesNationwideUnited Kingdom
20222022 Scotland bin strikesScotlandUnited Kingdom
2022–20242022–2024 United Kingdom railway strikesNationwideUnited Kingdom
2022–presentUnited Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes (2022–present)NationwideUnited Kingdom
2022–20232022–2023 National Health Service strikesNationwideUnited Kingdom
2022–20232022–2023 United Kingdom postal workers strikesNationwideUnited Kingdom
2022–20232022–2023 HarperCollins strikeNew York CityUnited States
20232023 transport strike in the PhilippinesNationwidePhilippines
2023University of Prince Edward Island faculty strikeCanada-
20232023 French pension reform strikesNationwideFrance
20232023 German public transport strikeNationwideGermany
20232023 Temple University strikePhiladelphiaUnited States
20232023 Rutgers University strikeNew JerseyUnited States
20232023 Canadian federal worker strikeNationwideCanada
20232023 Writers Guild of America strikeHollywoodUnited States
20232023 Romanian teachers' strikeNationwideRomania
20232023 Manitoba Public Insurance StrikeManitobaCanada
20232023 SAG-AFTRA strikeHollywoodUnited States
20232023 United Auto Workers strikeNationwideUnited States
20242024 Boeing machinists' strikeSeattleUnited States
20242024 United States port strikeEast and Gulf CoastUnited States
20242024 Canada Post strikeNationwideCanada
20252025 New York corrections officers' strikeNew YorkUnited States
20252025 Air Canada flight attendants strikeWorldwideCanada
20252025 Boeing machinists' strikeSt. Louis Metropolitan Area, Missouri/IllinoisUnited States
20252025 Alberta teachers' strikeAlbertaCanada

Chronological list of general strikes

DateNamePlaceCountry
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