SAG-Aftra Strike

Now the actual Newsboys Strike of 1899 , lasted much longer. It lasted from July 20th to August 2nd. The strike was as well lead by one-eyed young man named Louis Ballat who was nick named “Kid blink”. And in the musical was as a minor supporting role , with another actual real life newsie MAurice Cohen were the inspiration for “CowBoy Kelly.” As well the actual strike ended with a compromise: The Journal and The World agreed to buy back all unsold copies of the newspapers. Another fun fact is that the NewsBOys strike of 1899 was told in David Nasaw’s book Children of the City: At work and at Play.

In August 1997, the 190 000 teamsters employed at UPS went on strike for 15 days before agreeing to a new five year contract. The strike cost UPS $700million

The Pullman Strike of 1894 was the first national strike in American history and it came about during a period of unrest with labor unions and controversy regarding the role of government in business.5 The strike officially started when employees organized and went to their supervisors to ask for a lowered rent and were refused.5 The strike had many different causes. For example, workers wanted higher wages and fewer working hours, but the companies would not give it to them; and the workers wanted better, more affordable living quarters, but the companies would not offer that to them either. These different causes created an interesting and controversial end to the Pullman strike. Because of this, questions were raised about the strike

The Winnipeg General Strike happened from May 15-June 25, 1919. This strike is Canada’s best known strike in its history. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and rising Revolutionary Industrial Unionism, all were contributions to the postwar labor unrest that put the strike in motion.

The Great Railroad strike occurred in 1877 and started in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The original incident was when major railroad companies announced that there would be another wage cut of ten percent, after workers’ wages were already slashed during the financial panic of 1873. This economic downfall caused hundreds of laborers to leave their jobs and go on strike. The word spread to cities across the country that railroad workers were striking causing a domino effect of strikes within other railroad companies as well as other professions. The initial strike led to violence causing the loss of

Labor unrest came to a head in 1919 when workers began to protest in response to the difficulties caused bydemobilization. Workers went on strike

On July 21, 1899, New York City was filled with the voices of the newsies. Back in the 1800s, newspapers were the only source of media, they were the only way of knowing what was going on with the world. The newsies, also known as newsboys, were the ones who sold the papers, it was how they earned a living. Every morning, the newsies would line up and pay for a bundle of papers so they could sell them and hopefully make a profit. Most newsies were either orphans or runaways. When a newsboy did sell his papers, he used that money to buy food to tide him over for a day or two, but he had to save some of that money so he could buy more papers in the morning. If a newsies didn't sell enough papers, then he wouldn't

The Railroad Shop Workers Strike of 1922 affected everyone in the country. This strike occurred because of the pay cut of seven cents to the wages of the railroad workers. Approximately 400,000 rail shop workers from various unions were on strike because the cut was announced by the railroad labor board. When

The Winnipeg General Strike The year of 1919 has been one of the most influential years of strikes

There were a lot of issues that prompted employees at the Frontier hotel to take striking as an action to be heard. When watching this documentary for the first time I didn’t realize how long these workers were on strike for. One word to describe the owners of these hotels is “savages”. They started to fire individuals for no apparent reason it seemed the owners wanted to cut back. There was one girl that worked in the culinary department for eight years and she was let go. The hotel also took away health insurance benefits, pension contributions for employees trying to retire and the most important cutting employee wages for the hotel to save money and for the owners to profit even more letting these employees work next to nothing. A lot of workers said they felt their pride was being taken away also trying to take care of their own family will be even more inflexible. The hotel took away everything so these employees had no chose but to strike.

The strike eventually ended on April the 8th, 1968 as AFSCME leads announce an agreement has been reached and strikers vote to accept it, the agreement included wage increases and union recognition although addition strikes had to be threatened to force the city of Memphis to honour its agreements. This period was a turning point for black

Jim Brown inquired about the prospective length of a strike. Bonnie figured that such a strike would last at least four weeks. Jim was not too pleased with these prospects. He was pleased when realized that only a small number of tasks would be impacted and that he could subcontract to non union shops minor activities such as the new seats.

The strike lasted all of 45 days, and became to lose steam and effectively come to a halt after President Hayes sent federal troops from city to city. There is no exact record of the losses faced by the country during this strike, but it is reported that the engineers' and firemen's brotherhoods lost approximately $600,000 over the forty-five days of the strike, while for the Burlington Railroad the losses were at least $2,100,000. In Pittsburgh, it was estimated that property damage reached over three million dollars, with Chicago, Baltimore and other cities facing losses of a similar magnitude. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was America’s first nationwide strike. The strike was a result of a 10 percent pay deduction by four of the largest railroads. “Nearly 100,000 workers were idled and approximately two-thirds of the railroad mileage across the Unites States was shut down with over 14 states and ten railroads involved” (AP Study Notes: Rise of Unions). President Hayes eventually sent troops to coral the strikers but they were so unorganized that they eventually stopped and went back to work.

First of all, many national debates get involved this strike. In the surface, the CTU declared that this strike is a labor dispute over job security, in which way laid-off teachers would be hired back according to their seniority-pay, merit-pay and in some ways surprise me, they wanted to connect teacher evaluation to student achievement as test scores just like China. In some aspects, this strike was just part of the battle across the entire country between teachers unions and education reformers.