List of strikes


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

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Seventeenth century

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1619Polish craftsmen strikeJamestownThirteen Colonies
1661Indentured Servants' PlotVirginia colonyThirteen Colonies

Eighteenth century

Nineteenth century

1800–1849

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1835General StrikePhiladelphiaUnited States
1835Textile StrikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States

1850–1899

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1865Upper Peninsula miners' strikeMarquette, MichiganUnited States
1873Coal miners' strike of 1873northeastern Ohio, northwestern PennsylvaniaUnited States
1874Tompkins Square RiotNew York CityUnited States
1877Great Railroad StrikenationwideUnited States
1886Great Southwest Railroad StrikenationwideUnited States
1886Haymarket AffairChicago, IllinoisUnited States
1886Bay View TragedyMilwaukee, WisconsinUnited States
1887Sugar Cane Workers StrikeLafourche Parish, LouisianaUnited States
1888Burlington Railroad StrikeChicago, Burlington and Quincy RailroadUnited States
1888London matchgirls strike of 1888LondonUnited Kingdom
1889London Dock StrikeLondon, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1890Southampton Dock StrikeSouthampton, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1891Cotton pickers strike of 1891Lee County, ArkansasUnited States
1891Coal Creek Miners' StrikeAnderson County, TennesseeUnited States
1892Homestead StrikeHomestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1892Buffalo switchmen's strikeBuffalo, New YorkUnited States
1892Coeur d'Alene labor strikeCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1892New Orleans general strikeNew Orleans, LouisianaUnited States
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 Massacre StrikeLattimer, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1898South Wales Coal strikeWalesUnited Kingdom
1899Coeur d'Alene labor confrontationCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1899Newsboys StrikeNew York CityUnited States
1899Russian student strikeSt. Petersburg UniversityRussian Empire

Twentieth century

1900s

1910s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1910–11Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–11Westmoreland County, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1910Philadelphia general strike Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1910–11Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–11Westmoreland County, PennsylvaniaUnited States
19111911 Liverpool general transport strikeLiverpool, MerseysideUnited Kingdom
1911Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911Illinois, Mississippi and TexasUnited States
19121912 Lawrence textile strike, a.k.a. the Bread and Roses StrikeLawrence, MassachusettsUnited States
1912Waihi miners' strikeWaihiNew Zealand
1912Louisiana timber workers' strikeGrabow, LouisianaUnited States
1912Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912Kanawha County, West VirginiaUnited States
1913Dublin strike and lockoutDublinIreland
1913Ludlow Massacre StrikeLudlow, ColoradoUnited States
1913Paterson silk strikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States
19131913 Great StrikenationwideNew Zealand
1913Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913Indianapolis, IndianaUnited States
1913–14Copper Country strike of 1913–14Upper MichiganUnited States
1914–1939Burston Strike SchoolBurston, NorfolkEngland
1915–16Bayonne refinery strikesBayonne, New JerseyUnited States
1917–191917–1919 Brazil strike movementnationwideBrazil
1918BLE strike in New York CityNew York CityUnited States
1918–19British police strikes in 1918 and 1919,nationwideUnited Kingdom
1919Coal strikenationwideUnited States
1919Boston Police StrikeBoston, MassachusettsUnited States
19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikenationwideUnited States
1919Battle of George SquareGlasgowScotland
1919La Canadiense strikeCataloniaSpain
1919Steel strike of 1919Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Twenty-first century

2000s

2010s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
20102010 University of Puerto Rico StrikeSan JuanPuerto Rico
20102010 Scottish football referee strikenationwideScotland
20102010 Spanish air traffic controllers strikenationwideSpain
20102010 Major League Soccer lockout/strikenationwideUnited States
2010–112010-11 Hanjin Heavy Industries strikenationwideSouth Korea and the Philippines
20112011 NBA LockoutnationwideUnited States and Canada
20112011 NFL lockoutnationwideUnited States
20122012 NFL referee lockoutnationwideUnited States
2012–132012–13 NHL lockoutnationwideUnited States and Canada
20132013 Hong Kong dock strikecitywideHong Kong
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
20162016 video game voice actor strikeLos Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States
20172017 Philippine jeepney drivers' strikenationwidePhilippines
20172017 Brazilian general strikenationwideBrazil
20173rd October Catalan independentists General StrikenationwideCatalonia
20182018 teachers' strikes in the United StatesnationwideUnited States
20182018 York University strike: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant, and Contract Faculty StrikeYork, OntarioCanada
2018Brazil truck drivers' strikenationwideBrazil
2018Marriott Hotels strikeBethesda, MarylandUnited States
20182018–19 education workers' strikes in the United StatesnationwideUnited States
2018School strike for climateworldwideglobal
20182018–2020 UK higher education strikesnationwideUnited Kingdom
2019Wright State University 2019 faculty strikeDayton, OhioUnited States

2020s

Chronological list of [general strike]s

DateNamePlaceCountry
1820Radical WarScotlandUnited Kingdom
1835Philadelphia general strike of 1835Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1842General Strike of 1842EnglandUnited Kingdom
1877St. Louis general strike of 1877St. Louis, MissouriUnited States
1877Scranton general strikeScranton, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1886Walloon jacquerie of 1886WalloniaBelgium
1892New Orleans general strike of 1892New Orleans, LouisianaUnited States
1893Belgian general strike of 1893MonsBelgium
1909Swedish General StrikenationwideSweden
1910Philadelphia general strike of 1910Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1912Brisbane general strike of 1912Brisbane, QueenslandAustralia
19171917–1919 Brazil strike movementRio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do SulBrazil
1918Vancouver general strikeVancouver, British ColumbiaCanada
1919Seattle General StrikeSeattle, WashingtonUnited States
1919Winnipeg general strikeWinnipeg, ManitobaCanada
1920Italian anti-Fascist general strikeRomeItaly
1926United Kingdom general strike of 1926nationwideUnited Kingdom
1934San Francisco general strike of 1934San Francisco, CaliforniaUnited States
1936Palestinian general strikenationwideMandatory Palestine
1942Luxembourgish general strike of 1942nationwideLuxembourg
1946Oakland general strike of 1946Oakland, CaliforniaUnited States
1950General strike against Leopold III of BelgiumnationwideBelgium
1953Uprising of 1953nationwideEast Germany
1956General strike of 1956nationwideFinland
1960–61Belgian general strike of 1960–61WalloniaBelgium
1968French general strike of May 1968nationwideFrance
1973Uruguay general strike of 1973nationwideUruguay
1974Ulster Workers' Council strikeNorthern IrelandUnited Kingdom
1988Spanish general strike of 1988nationwideSpain
1992April 1992 general strike in NepalnationwideNepal
19981998 Puerto Rican general strikenationwidePuerto Rico
2002–03Venezuelan general strike of 2002–03nationwideVenezuela
20062006 democracy movement in NepalnationwideNepal
20072007 Guinea general strikenationwideGuinea
20082008 Egyptian general strikenationwideEgypt
20112011 Oakland general strikeOakland, CaliforniaUnited States
2016Indian general strike of 2016nationwideIndia
20172017 Brazilian general strikenationwideBrazil
20172017 Catalan general strikeCataloniaSpain
20182018 Jordanian general strikenationwideJordan
2018–19School strike for climateAmerica, Europe, Australia, and others.Various