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Homested strike
The Homestead strike in the US was a bitterly fought labor dispute. Workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pensylvannia to protest a proposed wage cut. -
anti union injunction
A federal court issues the first injunction against a union under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The case, brought against the Workingman's Amalgamated Council of New Orleans for interfering with the movement of commerce, hands managers a potent legal weapon. -
Norris-LaGuardia Act
United States federal law on US labor law. It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, this relats to the ability of unions to strike. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute. This too shows the ablity of union workers to strike and not be threatened to lose their job. -
WWII
WWII had an impact on unions all around the world. In the US it sparked a factory job boom. If you wanted a job, all you had to do was go to a local factory and you were set. The war called for huge oil consumption therefore sparking another creation of union jobs. -
Hockey Strike
during a lockout during the 2004-2005 season The issue was Players’ salaries, and the threat of salary caps being implemented. Hockey players were just unwilling to accept checks they saw unfit, but eventually it was resolved. -
General Motors strike
In 2007, from September 24 to 26, about 73,000 auto workers in the United Auto Workers Union raised their wrenches defiantly against General Motors, with concerns of compensation, benefits, job stability and company investment (complaints of the usual sort). After two assembly plants and a transmission facility in Canada were, effectively, shut down, a deal was agreed upon and the wheels were in motion once more. -
NBA Lockout
2011 NBA lockout was the fourth lockout in the history of the National Basketball Association. The 161-day lockout began on July 1, 2011 and ended on December 8, 2011. It delayed the start of the 2011–12 regular season from November 1 to December 25, and it reduced the regular season from 82 to 66 games. The National Basketball Association Player Union was on a strike due to certain contract agreements by the NBA. -
Verizon strike
45,000 Verizon employees shouted an ironic chant “Can you hear me now?” as workers across the country went on strike. As a result, 411 offered very little help. Contracts of myriad landline employees had expired, leaving them jobless in a world where wireless is the dominant format. And of course the pickets came out, with many gathered around the Verizon New York headquarters. -
United States federal government shutdown of 2013
The United States federal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for the interim authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2014 was enacted in time. During this shutdown most Union workers or Government workers were temparialy out of work.
