List of strikes

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Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886

The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).

## Chronological list of strikes

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### Twelfth century BCE

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c. 1158 BCE  | Deir el-Medina strikes (possibly earliest recorded strike action in history)  | Deir el-Medina | New Kingdom of Egypt

### Fourteenth century

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1353  | 1353 Walsham Manor strike [1] | Walsham le Willows | England

### Sixteenth century

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1538  | 1538 Cobblers' Strike[2] | Wisbech | England

### Seventeenth century

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1619  | Polish craftsmen's strike | Jamestown | Thirteen Colonies
1661  | Indentured Servants' Plot | Virginia colony | Thirteen Colonies

### Eighteenth century

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1766  | Silver miners' strike | Mineral del Monte | Mexico
1787  | Weavers' strike | Calton, Glasgow | Scotland

### Nineteenth century

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#### 1800–1849

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1818  | Manchester Mill Worker's Strike  | New Hampshire  | United States
1824  | Slater's Mill Women's Strike  | Rhode Island  | United States
1828  | New Hampshire Mill Women's Strike  | New Hampshire  | United States
1833  | Four pennies riot | Anzin | France
1834  | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike  | Lowell, Massachusetts  | United States
1835  | Textile strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States
1835  | 1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strike | Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. | United States
1835  | New England Mill Strike  | New England  | United States
1835  | Philadelphia General Strike | Philadelphia  | United States
1836  | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike  | Lowell, Massachusetts  | United States

#### 1850–1899

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Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkerton guards and County Sheriffs arrive to confront the strikers in the 1892 Homestead Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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1853–1854  | Preston strike of 1853–1854 | Preston, Lancashire | United Kingdom
1859  | London builders' strike | London | United Kingdom
1860  | New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 | Lynn, Massachusetts | United States
1864  | Collar Laundry Union strike[3] | Troy, New York | United States
1865  | Upper Peninsula miners' strike | Marquette, Michigan | United States
1867  | Chinese Labor Strike of 1867[4] | Sierra Nevada, California | United States
1870  | North Adams strike | North Adams, Massachusetts | United States
1872  | Gas Stokers' strike | London | United Kingdom
1872  | Metropolitan Police strike of 1872 | London  | United Kingdom
1873  | Coal miners' strike of 1873 | northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania  | United States
1874  | Tompkins Square Riot | New York City | United States
1877  | Great Railroad Strike | nationwide  | United States[5]
1877–1878  | Cigar makers' strike of 1877 | New York City | United States
1881  | 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike | Atlanta | United States
1883  | Camp Dump strike | Omaha, Nebraska | United States
1886  | Great Southwest railroad strike | nationwide  | United States
1886  | Haymarket affair | Chicago, Illinois | United States
1886  | Bay View massacre | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States
1887  | Thibodaux massacre (sugar cane workers' strike)  | Lafourche Parish, Louisiana | United States
1888  | Burlington railroad strike | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | United States
1888  | Matchgirls' strike | London | United Kingdom
1889  | London dock strike | London, England | United Kingdom
1889  | Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889 | Oslo | Sweden-Norway
1890  | Southampton Dock strike | Southampton, England | United Kingdom
1890  | Maritime dispute | Melbourne | Australia
1891  | Australian shearers' strike | Queensland | Australia
1891  | Cotton pickers' strike of 1891 | Lee County, Arkansas | United States
1891  | Coal Creek War (miners)  | Anderson County, Tennessee | United States
1892  | Miners' strike | Broken Hill | Australia
1892  | Homestead strike (steel workers)  | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States
1892  | Buffalo switchmen's strike | Buffalo, New York | United States
1892  | Coeur d'Alene labor strike | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho | United States
1893  | UK miners' strike | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1894  | Pullman Strike | Pullman, Chicago | United States
1894  | Great Northern Railway strike | nationwide  | United States
1894  | Bituminous coal miners' strike | nationwide  | United States
1895  | Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike | Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Governorate | Russian Empire
1896  | Leadville miners' strike | Leadville, Colorado | United States
1897  | Lattimer massacre | Lattimer, Pennsylvania | United States
1898  | South Wales coal strike | Wales | United Kingdom
1899  | Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho | United States
1899  | Weight Strike[6] | Ybor City, Tampa, Florida | United States
1899  | Newsboys' strike | New York City | United States
1899  | Russian student strike | St. Petersburg University | Russian Empire

### Twentieth century

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#### 1900s

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1900  | St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900 | St. Louis, Missouri | United States
1900–1903  | Penrhyn 'Streic Fawr' ('Great Strike) | Bethesda, North Wales | Wales, UK
1900  | Anthracite coal strike  | Eastern Pennsylvania | United States
1901  | U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901 | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States
1902  | Anthracite coal strike | Illinois, Mississippi and Texas | United States
1903  | Oxnard strike of 1903 | Oxnard, California | United States
1903  | Carbon County Strike | Carbon County, Utah | United States
1903–1904  | Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners | Colorado | United States
1906  | Cananea strike | Sonora, Mexico | Mexico
1907  | Music Hall Strike of 1907[7] | London | United Kingdom
1907  | Boston garment worker strike[8] | Boston | United States
1907  | Belfast Dock strike | Belfast | Ireland
1907  | Río Blanco strike | Orizaba, Veracruz | Mexico
1907  | 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike | San Francisco, California | United States
1907  | Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers | Languedoc, Pyrénées-Orientales | France
1908  | Pensacola streetcar operators' strike | Pensacola, Florida | United States
1909  | Georgia Railroad strike | Georgia | United States
1909  | Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909 | McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania | United States
1909  | New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000"  | Manhattan, New York | United States

#### 1910s

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Bodies immediately after the Lena massacre of striking goldfield workers in 1912 Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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1910–1911  | Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 | Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania | United States
1910–1911  | Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11[9] | Tampa, Florida | United States
1910  | Clockmakers' strike[10] | New York City | United States
1910–1911  | 1910 Chicago garment workes' strike | Chicago | United States
1911  | 1911 Liverpool general transport strike | Liverpool, Merseyside | United Kingdom
1911  | Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911 | Illinois, Mississippi and Texas | United States
1911  | 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike | Grand Rapids, Michigan | United States
1912  | 1912 Lawrence textile strike, also called the "Bread and Roses" strike  | Lawrence, Massachusetts | United States
1912  | Waihi miners' strike | Waihi | New Zealand
1911–1912  | Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912 | Eastern Louisiana  | United States
1912  | Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 | Kanawha County, West Virginia | United States
1912  | 1912 New York City waiters' strike | New York City  | United States
1912–1913  | 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike | Little Falls, New York | United States
1912–13  | Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912 | Seattle, Washington | United States
1913  | 1913 El Paso smelters' strike | El Paso, Texas | United States
1913  | Dublin strike and lockout | Dublin | Ireland
1913  | Ludlow Massacre | Ludlow, Colorado | United States
1913  | Paterson silk strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States
1913  | 1913 Sligo Dock strike | Sligo | Ireland
1913  | Leith dockers' strike of 1913 | Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland  | United Kingdom
1913  | 1913 Great Strike | nationwide  | New Zealand
1913  | Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 | Indianapolis, Indiana | United States
1913–1914  | Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 | Upper Michigan | United States
1914–1939  | Bursdon teachers' strike | Burston, Norfolk | England
1914–1915  | 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike | Atlanta | United States
1915–16  | Bayonne refinery strikes | Bayonne, New Jersey | United States
1915–17  | 1915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike | Johnson County, Arkansas | United States
1916  | 1916 Atlanta streetcar strike | Atlanta | United States
1916–1917  | 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike | Minnesota | United States
1917  | The Great Strike | nationwide  | Australia
1917–19  | 1917–1919 Brazil strike movement | nationwide  | Brazil
1917  | 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | United States
1918  | BLE strike in New York City | New York City  | United States
1918–19  | British police strikes in 1918 and 1919 | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1918-20  | 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes | New York City  | United States
1919  | Battle of George Square | Glasgow | Scotland
1919  | US Strike wave of 1919 | nationwide  | United States
1919  | La Canadiense strike | Catalonia | Spain
1919  | Florida Pebble Strike | Mulberry, Florida | United States
1919  | Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919 | Boston | United States
1919  | 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike | nationwide  | United States
1919  | Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919[11] | Los Angeles, California | United States
1919  | 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike | New York City  | United States
1919  | Boston Police Strike | Boston, Massachusetts | United States
1919  | Steel strike of 1919 | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States
1919  | Coal strike | nationwide  | United States

#### 1920s

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1920  | Battle of Matewan | Matewan, West Virginia | United States
1920  | 1920 Alabama coal strike | Alabama | United States
1920  | 1920 French railway strikes | nationwide  | France
1920  | Denver streetcar strike of 1920 | Denver, Colorado | United States
1920  | Oahu sugar strike of 1920 | Oahu, Hawaii | Territory of Hawaii
1921  | Kronstadt rebellion | Kronstadt | Russian SFSR
1921  | Black Friday (1921) (expected strike not called)  | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1921  | Battle of Blair Mountain | Logan County, West Virginia | United States
1922  | New England Textile Strike | Northeast  | United States
1922  | UMW General coal strike | nationwide  | United States
1922  | Herrin massacre | Herrin, Illinois | United States
1922  | Great Railroad Strike of 1922 | nationwide  | United States
1922  | 1922 seamen's strike | citywide  | Hong Kong
1923  | 1923 San Pedro maritime strike | San Pedro, Los Angeles, California | United States
1923  | 1923 Victorian police strike | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia
1924  | Hanapepe massacre | Kauaʻi, Hawaii | United States
1925  | Ammanford anthracite strike | Ammanford, Carmarthenshire | Wales
1925–1926  | Canton-Hong Kong strike | Guangzhou and Hong Kong | China and Hong Kong
1926  | 1926 United Kingdom general strike | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
1926  | 1926 Passaic textile strike | Passaic, New Jersey | United States
1927  | 1927 Indiana bituminous strike | nationwide  | United States
1927  | Columbine Mine massacre | Serene, Colorado | United States
1928  | 1928 New Bedford textile strike | New Bedford, Massachusetts | United States
1928  | Banana massacre | nationwide  | Colombia
1929  | 1929 Australian timber workers' strike | nationwide  | Australia
1929  | Lupeni Strike of 1929 | Lupeni, Harghita | Romania
1929  | 1929 New Orleans streetcar strike | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States
1929  | Rothbury Riot | North Rothbury, New South Wales | Australia
1929  | Loray Mill strike | Gastonia, North Carolina | United States

#### 1930s

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1930  | Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 | Imperial Valley, California | United States
1930  | Phú Riềng Đỏ | Biên Hòa Province | French Indochina
1931  | Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931 | Tampa, Florida | United States
1931  | Santa Clara cannery strike | Santa Clara, California | United States
1931  | Ådalen shootings | Ådalen | Sweden
1931  | Harlan County War | Harlan County, Kentucky | United States
1931  | Invergordon Mutiny | Invergordon | United Kingdom
1932  | Shunjuen Incident | Tokyo | Japan
1932  | Century Airlines pilots' strike | Chicago, Illinois | United States
1932  | Ford Hunger March | Detroit, Michigan | United States
1932  | Griviţa strike of 1933 | Bucharest | Romania
1933  | Briggs Manufacturing Company strike  | Detroit, Michigan | United States
1933  | California agricultural strikes of 1933 | California | United States
1934  | Kohler strike | Sheboygan, Wisconsin | United States
1934  | 1934 New York hotel strike | New York City | United States
1934  | Auto-Lite strike | Toledo, Ohio | United States
1934  | Minneapolis general strike of 1934 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | United States
1934  | 1934 West Coast waterfront strike | U.S. West Coast | United States
1934  | United Fruit banana strike | nationwide  | Costa Rica
1934  | Textile workers' strike (1934) | New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states | United States
1934  | Asturian miners' strike of 1934 | Asturia | Spain
1934–35  | 1934–35 Milwaukee sales clerks' strike[12] | Milwaukee | United States
1935  | Battle of Ballantyne Pier | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada
1935  | Copperbelt strike (1935) | Copperbelt Province | Northern Rhodesia
1935  | Pacific Northwest lumber strike | U.S. Pacific Northwest | United States
1935  | On-to-Ottawa Trek | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada
1935  | 1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike | U.S. Gulf Coast | United States
1936  | 1936 Venezuelan oil strike [es] | nationwide  | Venezuela
1936  | Flint sit-down strike | Flint, Michigan | United States
1936  | Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike | U.S. Gulf Coast | United States
1936  | SS California strike | San Pedro, California | United States
1936–37  | Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 | New York City | United States
1937  | 1937 Fleischer Studios strike | New York City  | United States
1937  | Little Steel strike including Memorial Day massacre of 1937 | nationwide  | United States
1937  | 1937 Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike | Lewiston, Maine and Auburn, Maine | United States
1937  | London busmen's strike | London | United Kingdom
1938  | 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike | San Antonio | United States
1938  | Hilo massacre | Hilo, Hawaii | Territory of Hawaii
1939  | Tool and die strike of 1939 | Detroit, Michigan | United States

#### 1940s

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1941  | February Strike | nationwide  | Netherlands
1941  | Norway theatre strike | Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim | German-occupied Norway
1941  | Disney animators' strike | Burbank, California | United States
1941  | Milk strike | Oslo  | German-occupied Norway
1942  | 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike | Betteshanger, Kent  | United Kingdom
1942  | Quit India movement | nationwide  | India
1942–44  | 1942-44 musicians' strike | nationwide  | United States
1943  | 1943 Akron rubber strike | Akron, Ohio |
1943  | 1943 Rolls-Royce strike | Hillington, Scotland | United Kingdom
1944  | Philadelphia Transit Strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States
1944  | Port Chicago mutiny | Port Chicago, California | United States
1945  | Hollywood Black Friday | Hollywood, California | United States
1945–46  | Strike wave of 1946 | nationwide  | United States
1945–46  | 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike | Charleston, South Carolina | United States
1946  | African Mine Workers' Strike | nationwide  | South Africa
1946  | 1946 Montreal Cotton Strike | Montreal, Quebec | Canada
1946  | 1946 Pilbara strike | Pilbara | Western Australia
1946  | The Great Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946 | Hawaii nationwide  | Territory of Hawaii
1946  | 1946 Palestine general strike | nationwide  | Mandatory Palestine
1947  | Biratnagar Jute Mill Strike | Biratnagar | Kingdom of Nepal
1947  | Telephone Strike | nationwide  | United States
1948  | 1948 Queensland Railway strike | Queensland | Australia
1948  | 1948 United States Meatpacking strike[13] | nationwide  | United States
1948  | Goodyear strike[13] | Akron, Ohio | United States
1948  | 1948 Caterpillar strike[13] | Peoria, Illinois | United States
1948  | Boeing Strike of 1948 | Seattle, Washington | United States
1948  | 1948 Miami Garment workers strike[14] | Miami, Florida | United States
1949  | Asbestos Strike | Asbestos, Quebec | Canada
1949  | 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike | New York City | United States
1949  | 1949 East German State Railway strike | Berlin | East Germany
1949  | 1949 New York City taxicab strike | New York City  | United States
1949  | 1949 New York City brewery strike | New York City  | United States
1949  | 1949 Australian coal strike | nationwide  | Australia
1949  | 1949 Kemi strike | Kemi | Finland
1949  | Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949 | Puget Sound, Washington  | United States

#### 1950s

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1950  | 1950 Venezuelan oil strike [es] | nationwide  | Venezuela
1950  | Atlanta transit strike of 1950 | Atlanta | United States
1951  | New Zealand waterfront strike | nationwide  | New Zealand
1951  | Barcelona tram strike | Barcelona, Catalonia | Spain
1951  | 1951 Aliquippa steelworkers strike[15] | Aliquippa, Pennsylvania | United States
1951  | 1951 Caterpillar strike[15] | East Peoria, Illinois | United States
1952  | 1952 steel strike | nationwide  | United States
1953  | 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike | Milwaukee | United States
1953  | The Hartal of 1953 | nationwide  | Sri Lanka
1955  | Hock Lee bus riots | Singapore | Republic of Singapore
1956  | Poznań protests of 1956 | Cegielski Factories | Polish People's Republic
1957  | Murdochville strike | Murdochville, Quebec | Canada
1957  | 1957 Long Island strike[16] | Long Island, New York | United States
1957  | 1957 Western Electric strike[16] | nationwide  | United States
1958–59  | 1958–59 Mexican railroad strike[17] | nationwide  | Mexico
1959  | Steel strike of 1959 | nationwide  | United States

#### 1960s

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1960  | 1960 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States
1960  | Miike Struggle | Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto | Japan
1962  | 1962 New York City newspaper strike | New York City | United States
1962  | Novocherkassk strike | Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant | Soviet Union
1963  | Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 | Reesor, Ontario | Canada
1964  | 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike | Mount Isa, Queensland | Australia
1964–65  | 1964–1965 Scripto strike | Atlanta | United States
1965–70  | Delano grape strike | Delano, California | United States
1966  | 1966 New York City transit strike | New York City | United States
1966–73  | Gurindji strike | Kalkarindji, Northern Territory | Australia
1966  | Texas farm workers' strike | Texas | United States
1966–67  | St. John's University strike of 1966–67 | New York City | United States
1967  | 1967 United States truckers strike[18] | nationwide  | United States
1967  | Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots | citywide  | British Hong Kong
1967  | 1967 United States Railroad strike[18] | nationwide  | United States
1967  | September 1967 General Motors strike[18] | Dayton, Ohio | United States
1967  | 1967 Caterpillar strike[18] | Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania | United States
1967  | November 1967 General Motors strike[18] | Pontiac, Michigan | United States
1968  | May 1968 in France | nationwide  | France
1968  | Memphis sanitation strike | Memphis, Tennessee | United States
1968  | Chrysler wildcat strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States
1968  | New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968 | New York City | United States
1968  | Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 | Florida | United States
1968  | 1968 NFL strike/lockout | Florida | United States
1969  | Unofficial strike by mineworkers over pay of surface workers[19] | nationwide  | United Kingdom

#### 1970s

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Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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1970  | Dock Workers Strike | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
1970  | U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 | nationwide  | United States
1970  | 1970 Minneapolis teachers' strike | Minneapolis | United States
1970–71  | Colour Strike | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1970–71  | Salad Bowl strike | nationwide  | United States
1971  | 1971 NYPD Work Stoppage | New York City | United States
1971  | Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.) | U.S. West Coast Hawaii and British Columbia | United States and Canada
1971  | 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1972  | 1972 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide  | United States
1972  | UK building workers' strike (1972) | Shrewsbury, Shropshire | United Kingdom
1972  | UK miners' strike (1972) | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1972  | Chile truckers' strike | nationwide  | Chile
1973  | 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike | New York City | United States
1973  | 1973 Philadelphia teachers strike[20] | Philadelphia | United States
1973  | 1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike | Kings Cross, New South Wales | Australia
1973  | 1973 Durban strikes | Natal | South Africa
1973  | 1973 Chicago teachers strike[20] | Chicago | United States
1973  | 1973 Cleveland teachers strike[20] | Cleveland | United States
1973  | 1973 Pennsylvania Central Transportation strike[20] | Northeastern United States | United States
1973  | 1973 Detroit teachers strike[20] | Detroit  | United States
1973  | 1973 Chrysler strike[20] | nationwide  | United States
1973  | 1973 Caterpillar strike[20] | nationwide  | United States
1974  | 1974 railway strike in India by 17 million workers of Indian Railways[21][22][23][24] | nationwide  | India
1974  | 1974 Elliot Lake miners strike | Elliot Lake | Canada
1974  | Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 | nationwide  | United States
1974  | Ulster Workers' Council Strike | nationwide  | Northern Ireland
1974  | UK miners' strike (1974) | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1974  | 1974 NFL strike | nationwide  | United States
1976–77  | Grunwick Dispute | London | England
1977  | 1977 Atlanta sanitation strike | Atlanta | United States
1977  | 1977 Latrobe Valley power strike[25] | Victoria | Australia
1977–78  | Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977–1978 | nationwide  | United States
1977–78  | 1977–78 Coors strike | Golden, Colorado | United States
1978  | 1978 New York City newspaper strike | New York City | United States
1978  | Sudbury Strike of 1978 | Sudbury, Ontario | Canada
1978–79  | Winter of Discontent | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1979  | 1979 Boston University strike | Boston | United States
1979  | 1979 New York prison guards' strike | New York | United States

#### 1980s

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1980  | 1980 Lublin strikes | Lublin | Poland
1980  | Gdańsk Shipyard Strike | Gdańsk | Poland
1980  | Upper Silesia 1980 strikes | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Poland
1980  | 1980 actors strike | nationwide (primarily Hollywood)  | United States
1981  | 1981 Schlitz strike | Milwaukee | United States
1981  | Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization | nationwide  | United States
1981  | Bydgoszcz events | Bydgoszcz | Poland
1981  | 1981 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States
1981  | 1981 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide  | United States
1981  | 1981 strike at the Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń | Bieruń  | Poland
1981  | 1981 Milwaukee Police strike | Milwaukee  | United States
1982  | Great Bombay textile strike | Mumbai | India
1982  | 1982 animators' strike | Greater Los Angeles | United States
1982  | 1982 NFL strike | nationwide  | United States
1982  | 1982 garment workers' strike[26] | New York City | United States
1983  | 1983 SEPTA Regional Rail strike | Greater Philadelphia | United States
1983  | Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 | Greenlee County, Arizona | United States
1983  | 1983 Greyhound Bus Lines strike in Seattle | Seattle | United States
1984  | Battle of Orgreave | Orgreave, South Yorkshire | England
1984  | Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation | Birkenhead | United Kingdom
1984–85  | 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1985  | 1985 Pan Am strike | nationwide  | United States
1985–86  | 1985–86 Hormel strike | Austin, Minnesota | United States
1985–87  | 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike | Watsonville, California | United States
1985–86  | 1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike | New Bedford, Massachusetts | United States
1985  | Mudginberri dispute | Northern Territory | Australia
1985  | 1985 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide  | United States and Canada
1986  | Dollar Sweets dispute | State of Victoria | Australia
1986  | Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike | North Billerica, Massachusetts | United States
1986  | Major Indoor Soccer League lockout | nationwide  | United States
1986  | Wapping dispute | London | England
1987  | International Paper strike | Corinth, New York | United States
1987  | 1987 NFL strike | nationwide  | United States
1987  | Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher's Strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada
1988  | 1988 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States
1988  | 1988 Polish strikes | nationwide  | Poland
1988  | 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike | nationwide  | United Kingdom
1989  | 1989 Kosovo miners' strike | SAP Kosovo | SFR Yugoslavia
1989  | 1989 Australian pilots' strike | nationwide  | Australia
1989–90  | Pittston Coal strike | Pittston, Pennsylvania | United States
1989–93  | Donbas miners' strikes | Ukrainian SSR | Soviet Union
1989–90  | 1989–90 British ambulance strike | Nationwide  | United Kingdom

#### 1990s

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Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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1990  | 1990 Major League Baseball lockout | nationwide  | United States
1990  | Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)  | Mandal | India
1991  | Frontier Hotel Culinary Workes (Las Vegas, US 1991–1998)  | Las Vegas | United States
1991  | 1991 Belarusian strikes | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic | Soviet Union
1991  | 1991 Public Service Alliance of Canada Strike[27] | Ottawa | Canada
1992  | 1992 United States railroad strike | nationwide  | United States
1992  | 1992 NHL strike | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1992  | Southern California drywall strike | Southern California | United States
1993  | Timex strike | Dundee | Scotland
1994–95  | 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1994–95  | 1994–95 NHL lockout | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1994  | San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 | San Francisco, California | United States
1995  | 1995 Boeing Strike | Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton)  | United States
1995–97  | Detroit Newspaper Strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States
1995  | 1995 strikes in France | nationwide  | France
1995  | 1995 NBA lockout | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1995–98  | Liverpool dockers' strike (1995–98) | Liverpool, Merseyside | England
1996  | 1996 NBA lockout | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1996–97  | 1996–1997 strikes in South Korea | nationwide  | South Korea
1996–97  | 1996 NBA lockout | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1996–97  | Donbas miners' strikes | Donbas  | Ukraine
1997  | 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.) | nationwide  | United States
1997  | 1997 Ontario teachers strike | Ontario | Canada
1998  | 1998 Australian waterfront dispute | Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle and Sydney | Australia
1998  | 1998 Russian miners' strike | Komi Republic, Kemerovo Oblast, Rostov Oblast | Russia
1998  | Donbas miners' strikes | Luhansk Oblast | Ukraine
1998–99  | 1998–99 NBA lockout | nationwide  | Canada and United States
1999  | 1999 UNAM strike | Mexico City | Mexico

### Twenty-first century

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#### 2000s

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2000  | Verizon Strike | nationwide  | United States
2000  | 2000 commercial actors strike | Hollywood | United States
2001  | Jeffboat wildcat strike | Jeffersonville, Indiana | United States
2001  | National Gallery of Canada | Ottawa, Ontario | Canada
2001–2003  | Friction Dynamics - T&G Union | Caernarfon, Wales | United Kingdom
2002  | UK Firefighter strike 2002 | nationwide  | United Kingdom
2003  | Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike | nationwide  | Scotland
2003  | 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike | New York City | United States
2003  | 2003 June 15 Hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel.[28] | Chicago, Illinois | United States
2003–2004  | Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004 | Southern California | United States
2004–2005  | 2004–05 NHL lockout | nationwide  | United States and Canada
2005  | Bolivian Gas War | nationwide  | Bolivia
2005  | 2005 New York City transit strike | New York City | United States
2006  | Dhaka strikes | Dhaka | Bangladesh
2006  | 2006 labor protests in France | nationwide  | France
2006  | 2006 Oaxaca protests | Oaxaca | Mexico
2006  | 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute | Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch | New Zealand
2006  | South Korean railroad strike of 2006 | nationwide  | South Korea
2006  | 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada
2006  | University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign | Coral Gables, Florida | United States
2007  | 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike | Portland, Oregon | United States
2007  | 2007 South African public servants' strike | nationwide  | South Africa
2007  | 2007 Israeli teachers' strike | nationwide  | Israel
2007  | 2007 Orange County transit strike | Orange, California | United States
2007  | Hayward teachers strike | Hayward, California | United States
2007  | 2007 General Motors strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States
2007  | 2007 UK postal strikes | nationwide  | United Kingdom
2007  | 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike | New York City | United States
2007  | November 2007 strikes in France | nationwide  | France
2007  | German national rail strike of 2007 | nationwide  | Germany
2007  | 2007 South Africa miners' strike | nationwide  | South Africa
2007–2008  | 2007–2008 CBS News writers strike | New York City | United States
2007–2008  | 2007–2008 Cork players strike | County Cork | Ireland
2007–2008  | 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States
2007–2008  | 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike[29] | Aoyama, Tokyo | Japan
2008  | 2008 British teacher's strike | nationwide  | England
2008  | 2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada
2008  | 2008 VIVA bus operators strike | nationwide  | Canada
2008  | Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008[30] | Seattle, Washington | United States
2008–2009  | 2008–2009 York University strike | York, Ontario | Canada
2008–2009  | Istanbul metalworkers' strike of 2008–2009 | Istanbul | Turkey
2009  | 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes | North Killingholme, Lincolnshire | England
2009  | Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot | Tonghua, Jilin | China
2009  | 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike[31] | Toronto, Ontario | Canada
2009  | 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike | City of Leeds West Yorkshire | England
2009  | 2009 UK postal strikes | nationwide  | United Kingdom

#### 2010s

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Arizona teachers' strike, 26 April 2018 General strike in Catalonia, 21 February 2019 Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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2010  | 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike | San Juan | Puerto Rico
2010  | 2010 Chinese autoworkers strike[32] | Foshan and Zhongshan | China
2010  | 2010 Chinese labour unrest | nationwide  | China
2010  | 2010 Cambodian garment workers strike[33] | Phnom Phen | Cambodia
2010  | 2010 Scottish football referee strike | nationwide  | Scotland
2010  | 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike | nationwide  | Spain
2010  | 2010 Major League Soccer lockout/strike | nationwide  | United States
2010  | 2010 Georgia prison strike | Georgia | United States
2010–2011  | 2010–2011 Hanjin Heavy Industries strike | nationwide  | South Korea and the Philippines
2011  | 2011 Shanghai Truckers strike | Shanghai | China
2011  | 2011 NBA lockout | nationwide  | United States and Canada
2011  | 2011 NFL lockout | nationwide  | United States
2011  | Zhanaozen massacre | Mangystau Region | Kazakhstan
2011  | 2011 Israeli doctors' strike | nationwide  | Israel
2012  | 2012 NFL referee lockout | nationwide  | United States
2012–13  | 2012–13 NHL lockout | nationwide  | United States and Canada
2012  | 2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike | Los Angeles and Long Beach, California | United States
2013  | 2013 Southern Weekly incident | Guangzhou, Guangdong  | China
2013  | 2013 Hong Kong dock strike | citywide  | Hong Kong
2013  | 2013 Colombian miners strike[34] | Northern Colombia  | Colombia
2014  | Chinese Golf Factory Workers Strike for Essential Rights | Shenzhen | China
2014  | Tacoma nurses strike 2014 | Tacoma and Lakewood, Washington | United States
2014  | 2014 South African platinum strike | nationwide  | South Africa
2015  | 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike[35] | California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington | United States
2015  | 2015 Kohler Strike[36] | Kohler, Wisconsin | United States
2016  | 2016 Verizon workers' strike[37] | New York City | United States
2016–2017  | 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike[38] | Los Angeles, California | United States
2017  | 2017 Philippine jeepney drivers' strike | nationwide  | Philippines
2018–2019  | 2018–2019 teachers' strikes in the United States | nationwide  | United States
2018  | 2018 York University strike: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant, and Contract Faculty Strike  | York, Ontario | Canada
2018  | 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike | Taylorsville, Mississippi | United States
2018  | 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike | DeKalb County, Georgia | United States
2018  | Brazil truck drivers' strike | nationwide  | Brazil
2018  | Marriott Hotels strike[39][40] | Bethesda, Maryland | United States
2018  | Jasic incident | Shenzhen, Guangdong | China
2018–2019  | 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States | nationwide  | United States
2018  | 2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike | Alabama and Mississippi | United States
2018  | 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike | Atlanta | United States
2018–present  | School strike for climate | worldwide  | global
2018  | 2018–2020 UK higher education strikes | nationwide  | United Kingdom
2019  | 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike | Los Angeles County, California | United States
2019  | Wright State University 2019 faculty strike | Dayton, Ohio | United States
2019  | 2019 Portuguese fuel-tanker drivers' strike | nationwide  | Portugal
2019  | 2019 Stop & Shop strike | Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut | United States
2019  | 2019 India doctors' strike | West Bengal | India
2019  | 2019 Alaska ferry workers strike | Alaska | United States
2019  | 2019 AT&T strike | Southern United States | United States
2019–2020  | 2019–2020 French pension reform strike | nationwide  | France

#### 2020s

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See also: Timeline of strikes in 2021, Timeline of strikes in 2022, Timeline of strikes in 2023, and Timeline of strikes in 2024

Protestors during the 2021 Warrior Met Coal strike 2020 Michigan graduate students strike, 11 September 2023 French pension reform strikes, 15 March 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, 21 June Date  | Strike  | Place  | Country

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2020  | 2020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strike | Santa Cruz, California | United States
2020  | 2020 New Orleans sanitation strike  | New Orleans | United States
2020  | 2020 Bath shipbuilders strike | Bath, Maine | United States
2020  | Strike for Black Lives | Nationwide  | United States
2020  | 2020 Port of Montreal strike | Montreal | Canada
2020  | 2020 Michigan graduate students strike | Ann Arbor, Michigan | United States
2020  | 2020 University of Illinois Hospital strikes | Chicago | United States
2020–2021  | 2020–2021 Alabama aluminum plant strike | Muscle Shoals, Alabama | United States
2021  | 2021 Hunts Point Produce Market strike | New York City | United States
2021  | 2021 French labor protests | Nationwide  | France
2021  | 2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike | St. Paul Park, Minnesota | United States
2021  | 2021 Go North West strike | Manchester | United Kingdom
2021  | 2021 St. Charles Bend strike | Bend, Oregon | United States
2021  | 2021 Saint Vincent Hospital strike | Worcester, Massachusetts | United States
2021–2022  | 2021–2022 Columbia University strike | New York City | United States
2021  | 2021 Allegheny Technologies strike | Northern United States  | United States
2021  | 2021 New York University strike[41][42] | New York City | United States
2021–2023  | 2021–2023 Warrior Met Coal strike | Alabama | United States
2021  | 2021 Minas Gerais prostitute strike | Minas Gerais | Brazil
2021  | 2021 Virginia Volvo Trucks strike | Dublin, Virginia | United States
2021  | 2021 Oregon Tech strike | Oregon | United States
2021  | 2021 Cook County nurses strike[43][44] | Cook County, Illinois | United States
2021  | 2021 Frito-Lay strike | Topeka, Kansas | United States
2021  | 2021 Nigerian doctors strike | Nationwide  | Nigeria
2021  | 2021 Nabisco strike | Nationwide  | United States
2021  | 2021 Heaven Hill strike | Bardstown, Kentucky | United States
2021  | 2021 Washington state carpenters strike[45][46] | Washington | United States
2021  | 2021 Mercy Hospital strike | Buffalo, New York | United States
2021  | 2021 Kellogg's strike | Nationwide  | United States
2021  | 2021 John Deere strike | Nationwide  | United States
2021  | 2021 Kaiser Permanente strike | Nationwide  | United States
2022  | 2022 UPM Paperworkers' strike[47] | Nationwide  | Finland
2022  | 2022 Minneapolis teacher's strike | Minneapolis | United States
2022  | 2022 University of California academic workers' strike | California | United States
2022  | 2022 British barristers' industrial action | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022  | 2022 BT Group strikes | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022  | 2022 Scotland bin strikes | Scotland | United Kingdom
2022–2024  | 2022–2024 United Kingdom railway strikes | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022–present  | United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes (2022–present) | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022–2023  | 2022–2023 National Health Service strikes | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022–2023  | 2022–2023 United Kingdom postal workers strikes | Nationwide  | United Kingdom
2022–2023  | 2022–2023 HarperCollins strike | New York City | United States
2023  | 2023 transport strike in the Philippines | Nationwide  | Philippines
2023  | University of Prince Edward Island faculty strike  | Canada
2023  | 2023 French pension reform strikes | Nationwide  | France
2023  | 2023 German public transport strike | Nationwide  | Germany
2023  | 2023 Temple University strike | Philadelphia | United States
2023  | 2023 Rutgers University strike | New Jersey | United States
2023  | 2023 Canadian federal worker strike | Nationwide  | Canada
2023  | 2023 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood | United States
2023  | 2023 Romanian teachers' strike | Nationwide  | Romania
2023  | 2023 Manitoba Public Insurance Strike  | Manitoba  | Canada
2023  | 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike | Hollywood  | United States
2023  | 2023 United Auto Workers strike | Nationwide  | United States
2024  | 2024 Boeing machinists strike | Seattle  | United States
2024  | 2024 United States port strike | East and Gulf Coast  | United States
2024  | 2024 Canada Post strike | Nationwide  | Canada
2025  | 2025 New York corrections officers' strike | New York | United States

## Chronological list of general strikes

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1820  | Radical War | Central Belt, Scotland |  United Kingdom | Influenced by Radical demands for reform, especially among Scottish weavers
1835  | Philadelphia general strike of 1835 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |  United States | Successful strike for a ten-hour work day and better wages
1842  | General Strike of 1842 | England and Wales |  United Kingdom | Chartist general strike against low wages originating from coal miners in Staffordshire before spreading to multiple industries in the Midlands as well as coal mines across the country.
1855  | 1855 Catalan general strike | Catalonia |  Spain
1862–1865  | General strike of slaves | Nationwide  |  Confederate States of America | Slaves in the Southern United States stopped work and attempted to cross the frontlines of the American Civil War into Union territory, in what W.E.B. Du Bois held to be a crucial turning point in the war.[48]
1877  | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri |  United States | Strike by rail workers in a number of different states for wage increases; ended after 52 days with a suppression by the National Guard and local militias
1886  | Walloon jacquerie of 1886 | Wallonia |  Belgium |
1892  | New Orleans general strike of 1892 | New Orleans, Louisiana |  United States | Successful strike for a 10-hour day and overtime pay; notable for the participation of both white and black strikers
1893  | Belgian general strike of 1893 | Mons |  Belgium | Strike by the Belgian Labour Party to pressure Prime Minister Auguste Beernaert's Catholic Party government to introduce universal male suffrage
1901  | 1901 Ybor City strikes[49] | Ybor City, Tampa, Florida | United States
1902  | Geneva general strike of 1902 | Geneva |  Switzerland
1904  | 1904 Italian general strike | Nationwide  | Italy
1905  | 1905 Russian Revolution | Nationwide  |  Russian Empire | General strike by workers in the industrial centres of the Russian Empire; suppressed by the Imperial Russian Army.
1907  | Geneva general strike of 1907 | Geneva |  Switzerland |
1907  | New Orleans General Levee Strike of 1907 | New Orleans |  United States |
1909  | Tragic Week | Barcelona, Catalonia |  Spain |
1909  | Swedish General Strike | Nationwide  |  Sweden | Unsuccessful general strike called by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation
1910  | Philadelphia general strike of 1910 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  |  United States | Amalgamated Transit Union strike of Philadelphia Transportation Company trolley workers which expanded into a citywide American Federation of Labor general strike, eventually leading to wage increases
1912  | Brisbane general strike of 1912 | Brisbane, Queensland |  Australia | Caused when Australian Tramway Employees Union members were dismissed for wearing union badges; ended with Queensland Police Service attacks on labor marchers in Market Square leading to a public outcry and the strengthening of the Australian labour movement
1912  | Zürich general strike of 1912 | Zürich |  Switzerland |
1917  | Australian general strike of 1917 | Nationwide  |  Australia |
1917  | Spanish general strike of 1917 | Nationwide  |  Spain |
1917  | 1917–1919 Brazil strike movement | Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul |  Brazil | Series of general strikes leading to an attempted anarchist uprising against the First Brazilian Republic.
1917  | 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike | Minneapolis–Saint Paul |  United States | Sympathetic general strike held on December 13 in support of streetcar workers who had been engaged in a labor dispute for the past several weeks. Involved about 10,000 people.
1918  | Irish General Strike against Conscription | Ireland |  United Kingdom |
1918  | Swiss general strike of 1918 | Nationwide  |  Switzerland |
1918  | Vancouver general strike | Vancouver, British Columbia |  Canada | General strike caused by the arrest of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, discontent over high living costs and low wages during World War I, and the October Revolution; ended with police attacks on union offices
1918  | General strike of 14 October 1918 | Czechoslovakia |  Austria-Hungary |
1919  | La Canadenca strike | Catalonia |  Spain |
1919  | Basel and Zürich general strike of 1919 | Basel and Zürich |  Switzerland |
1919  | Seattle General Strike | Seattle, Washington |  United States | Industrial Workers of the World strike caused when the Emergency Fleet Corporation denied shipbuilders' demands for higher wages and intended to start a socialist revolution; contributed to the First Red Scare
1919  | Winnipeg general strike | Winnipeg, Manitoba |  Canada | General strike ending with repression by the North-West Mounted Police but leading to the growth of the Canadian democratic socialist and labor movements.
1920  | Berlin general strike | Berlin |  Germany | General strike encouraged by the government to resist an attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic
1920  | Ruhr uprising | Ruhr |  Germany | General strike in support of the Social Democratic government before expanding into a mass labor uprising to establish a "dictatorship of the proletariat"; suppressed by the Freikorps and the Reichswehr
1920  | Romanian general strike of 1920 | Nationwide  |  Romania |
1922  | Italian general strike of 1922 | Nationwide  |  Italy | Unsuccessful general strike intended to prevent a seizure of power by Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party
1922  | Guayaquil general strike | Guayaquil | Ecuador
1926  | United Kingdom general strike of 1926 | Nationwide  |  United Kingdom | 10-day general strike by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to prevent wage reductions and worsened conditions for coal miners; ended without concessions or violence.
1926  | Sierra Leone railway strike of 1926 | Nationwide  |  Sierra Leone |
1927  | 1927 Austrian General Strike[50] | Vienna  |  Austria |
1932  | Geneva general strike of 1932 | Geneva |  Switzerland |
1933  | 1933 Cuban general strike | Nationwide, initially in Havana |  Cuba | The strike would originally begin as a strike for bus drivers in Havana and would later grow to other sectors and spread throughout the country. The strike led to the resignation of President Gerardo Machado.[51]
1933  | 1933 Ecuadorian general strike[52] | Quito, Riobamba |  Ecuador |
1933  | French general strike of 1933 | Nationwide  |  France |
1934  | Portuguese general strike of 1934 | Nationwide  |  Portugal |
1934  | West Coast waterfront strike of 1934 | California, Oregon and Washington |  United States | 83-day general strike in support of the International Longshoremen's Association during the Great Depression; the success of the strike contributed to the growth of industrial unionism under the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1934  | Minneapolis general strike of 1934 | Minneapolis, Minnesota |  United States |
1934  | Auto-Lite strike | Toledo, Ohio |  United States |
1936  | French general strike of 1936 | Nationwide  |  France |
1936  | Spanish Revolution of 1936 | Nationwide  |  Spain |
1936  | 1936 Syrian general strike | Nationwide  |  Syria
1936  | Palestinian general strike | Nationwide  |  Mandatory Palestine | General strike coordinated by the Arab Higher Committee against Jewish settlement in Palestine; eventually led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
1938  | French general strike of 1938 | Nationwide  |  France |
1941  | February strike | Nationwide  |  Netherlands |
1942  | Luxembourgish general strike of 1942 | Nationwide  |  Luxembourg | Campaign of passive resistance against the Nazi occupation during World War II.
1945  | Nigerian general strike of 1945 | Nationwide  |  Nigeria |
1946  | Royal Indian Navy mutiny | Nationwide  |  India |
1946  | Oakland general strike of 1946 | Oakland, California |  United States | Part of the 1945-46 strike wave in the United States during the U.S. demobilization after World War II and the abolition of National War Labor Board restrictions, which contributed to the passage of the Taft–Hartley Act restricting union activities and strike actions.
1950  | Austrian general strikes of 1950 | Nationwide  |  Austria |
1950  | Belgian general strike of 1950 | Nationwide  |  Belgium | Originated over opposition to King Leopold III of Belgium being returned to throne after his refusal to leave Belgium with the government-in-exile during the Nazi occupation; ended with his agreement to abdicate and allow his son Baudouin to take the throne
1950  | Nairobi general strike of 1950 | Nairobi |  Kenya |
1950  | Positive Action campaign | Nationwide  |  Gold Coast |
1952  | Casablanca Uprisings of 1952 | Casablanca |  Morocco |
1953  | Ceylonese Hartal of 1953 | Nationwide  |  Ceylon |
1953  | Uprising of 1953 | Nationwide  |  East Germany | Originated as strike by East Berlin construction workers against Sovietization work quotas before expanding to a broad revolt against the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party's rule; repressed by the Soviet Army and the Kasernierte Volkspolizei
1954  | General strike of 1954 | Nationwide  |  Honduras |
1956  | Finnish general strike of 1956 | Nationwide  |  Finland | Successful Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions general strike for higher wages
1960–61  | Belgian general strike of 1960–61 | Wallonia |  Belgium | General Labour Federation of Belgium general strike against Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens's austerity policies, especially the Unitary Law; contributed to the growth of the Walloon Movement
1966  | 1966 Burkina Faso general strike | Nationwide  |  Burkina Faso |
1968  | French general strike of May 1968 | Nationwide  |  France | Student protests which escalated into a nationwide general strike which halted the French economy and continued with wildcat strikes after the Grenelle agreements granted higher wages, leading to fears of a revolution against Charles de Gaulle; ended with Gaullist counter-demonstrations and a vote of confidence from the National Assembly.
1971-72  | Namibian contract workers general strike | Nationwide  |  Namibia | A general strike by workers under the contract labor system of what was then known as South West Africa (now Namibia) under the control of apartheid South Africa. The goal was to end the contract labor system due to slave like conditions and promote Namibian independence. It led to SWANLA being abolished & replaced with a less punitive but still repressive contract labor system. It also fueled the war for independence.
1972  | Québec general strike of 1972[53] | Québec |  Canada |
1973  | Uruguay general strike of 1973 | Nationwide  |  Uruguay | Unsuccessful general strike against the 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, leading the civic-military dictatorship to ban trade unions.
1974  | Ulster Workers' Council strike | Northern Ireland |  United Kingdom | Successful Ulster loyalist general strike against the Sunningdale Agreement between Great Britain and Ireland, which would have attempted to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict by establishing a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and revived Council of Ireland
1975  | Icelandic women's strike of 1975 | Nationwide  |  Iceland |
1976  | Canadian general strike of 1976[54][55] | Nationwide  |  Canada |
1976  | March 24 strike | Nationwide  |  People's Republic of the Congo |
1978  | Iranian Revolution | Nationwide  |  Iran |
1979  | 1979 New Zealand general strike | Nationwide  |  New Zealand | The Federation of Labour holds a 24-hour general strike held to protest the Third National Government's intervention in the general drivers' award.[56][57]
1984  | Uruguayan general strikes of 1984 | Nationwide  |  Uruguay | Successfully ended the Uruguayan dictatorships by forcing free elections to occur under the threat of continued rolling 24 hour general strikes if not allowed.[58]
1988  | Spanish general strike of 1988 | Nationwide  |  Spain | Workers' Commissions and Unión General de Trabajadores strike against the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party's policies under Prime Minister Felipe González
1989  | Velvet Revolution | Nationwide  |  Czechoslovakia
1990  | 1990 Moroccan general strike[59] | Nationwide  |  Morocco |
1992  | April 1992 general strike in Nepal | Nationwide  |  Nepal |
1995  | French general strikes of 1995 | Nationwide  |  France |
1998  | 1998 Danish general strike[60] | Copenhagen |  Denmark |
1998  | 1998 Puerto Rican general strike | Nationwide  |  United States ( Puerto Rico)  | 41-day general strike against the privatization of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, accompanied by some violence and sabotage.
2000  | Cochabamba Water War | Cochabamba |  Bolivia |
2002–2003  | Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 | Nationwide  |  Venezuela | General strike against President Hugo Chávez including a large contingent of PDVSA workers.
2003  | Bolivian gas conflict | Nationwide  |  Bolivia |
2006  | Nepalese Revolution | Nationwide  |  Nepal |
2007  | 2007 Guinea general strike | Nationwide  |  Guinea | Successful general strike forcing President Lansana Conté to resign.
2007  | 2007 South African public servants' strike | Nationwide  |  South Africa |
2007  | 2007 Swazi general strike | Nationwide  |  Eswatini |
2008  | 2008 Egyptian general strike | Nationwide  |  Egypt | General strike including large contingent of textile workers during the 2007–2008 world food price crisis
2009  | 2009 French Caribbean general strikes | Guadeloupe |  France |
2011  | 2011 Oakland general strike | Oakland, California |  United States | Part of the Occupy Oakland demonstrations
2012  | 2012 European general strike | Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Belgium |  European Union |
2016  | Indian general strike of 2016 | Nationwide  |  India | 24-hour general strike against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policies
2017  | 2017 Brazilian general strike | Nationwide  |  Brazil | General strike against President Michel Temer's labor reform policies during the Brazilian economic crisis.
2017  | 2017 Catalan general strike | Catalonia |  Spain | General strike in support of the Catalan independence movement, accompanied by police repression by the Spanish government.
2018  | 2018 Jordanian general strike | Nationwide  |  Jordan | Anti-austerity general strike
2018–2019  | 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests | Nationwide  |  Iran |
2018–present  | School strike for climate | Global  | Various  | International movement of students skipping classes to support renewable energy and climate change mitigation
2019  | 2019 Catalan general strike | Catalonia |  Spain |
2019  | 2019 Hong Kong general strike | Nationwide  |  Hong Kong |
2019  | 2019 Indian General Strike[61] | Nationwide  |  India |
2019  | Sudanese Revolution | Nationwide  |  Sudan |
2020  | 2020–2021 Belarusian protests | Nationwide  |  Belarus |
2020  | 2020 United States essential workers general strike | Nationwide  |  United States | General strike involving essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
2020  | Strike for Black Lives | Nationwide  |  United States | Mass walkout in support of the George Floyd protests
2020  | 2020 Indian general strike | Nationwide  |  India | Preceded the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest
2021  | 2021 Greek general strike | Nationwide  |  Greece | 24-hour general strike against a bill in the Hellenic Parliament that would give employers more power in regards to their employees.[62]
2021  | 2021 Myanmar strikes | Nationwide  |  Myanmar |
2021  | Striketober | Nationwide  |  United States |
2022  | 2022 Iranian general strike | Nationwide  |  Iran | 3 day general strike in response to protestors killed by Iranian security forces.[63]
2022  | 2022 Kazakh unrest | Nationwide  |  Kazakhstan |
2024  | 2024 Nigerian general strike | Nationwide  |  Nigeria | General strike due to low minimum wage.[64]
2025  | 2024–2025 Serbian anti-corruption protests | Nationwide  |  Serbia | General strike due to political corruption and the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse[65]

## See also

[edit]

* Organized labour portal

* List of US labor strikes by size
* List of miners' strikes
* List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes
* Streetcar strikes in the United States
* Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic
* Timeline of labor unions in the United States
* List of protests in the 21st century

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## Further reading

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* Labor conflict in the United States, An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly – Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN 0-8240-7968-X)

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