Timeline of strikes in 1978
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In 1978, a number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred.
Background
[edit]A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor working conditions. Strikes can also occur to demonstrate solidarity with workers in other workplaces or pressure governments to change policies.
Timeline
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Continuing strikes from 1977
[edit]- Coors strike and boycott
- 1977–78 British firemen's strike[1][2][3]
- 1977–78 Indonesia student protests[4][5][6][7]
- Grunwick dispute, in the United Kingdom.
- 1977–78 Lockheed strike, 12-week strike by Lockheed Corporation workers in the United States.[8][9]
- 1975–80 Sonacotra rent strike, rent strike by immigrant workers in France.[10]
- UMW Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978, 110-day strike by coal miners in the United States.
- 1977–79 Wien Air Alaska strike, 22-month strike by Wien Air Alaska pilots.[11]
January
[edit]- Iranian revolution
- 1978 Israeli seamen's strike, 80-day strike by seamen in Israel.[12]
- January 1978 Nicaraguan general strike, 17-day general strike in Nicaragua following the assassination of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal[13][14]
- 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills
February
[edit]- 1978 Sime Darby strike, 29-day strike by Sime Darby plantation workers in Malaysia.[15]
March
[edit]- 1978–1980 ABC Paulista strikes, series of strikes in the ABC Region; part of the Redemocratization in Brazil.
April
[edit]- 1978 Israeli journalists' strike, 11-day strike by journalists in Israel over a lack of wage increases.[16][17]
May
[edit]- 1978 Fleck strike, in Canada.[18][19][20]
- 1978–79 Puretex Knitting Company strike, by Puretex Knitting Company workers in Toronto, Canada, against workplace surveillance.[21][22]
June
[edit]- 1978 British Columbia brewery lockout[23][24]
- 1978 Montreal Star strike, 8-month strike by Montreal Star workers in Canada.[25][26][27]
- 1978 Safeway strike, in Manitoba, Canada.[28][29]
July
[edit]- 1978 Memphis fire and police strike, strike by firefighters and police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.[30][31][32][33]
August
[edit]- 1978 Australian telecom strike[34][35]
- 1978 New York City newspaper strike, 88-day strike by newspaper workers in New York City, United States.
September
[edit]- 1978 Inco strike, by Inco Limited workers in Greater Sudbury, Ontario; one of the longest strikes in Canadian history.
- 1978 Israeli teachers' strike[36][37]
October
[edit]- 1978 Canada Post strike[38][39]
- 1978 Vinmonopolet strike, strike by Vinmonopolet workers in Norway.[40]
November
[edit]- 1978 Ghanaian public sector strike[41]
- 1978–79 West German steelworkers' strike[42][43][44][45]
- 1978 Indian port strike[46][47]
- Winter of Discontent, series of strikes in the United Kingdom for greater wages.
December
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim". BBC News. 14 November 1977. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "End of pay strike, 16 January 1978". Fire Brigades Union. 3 November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Fire strike! It's 40 years since army Green Goddesses fought our blazes". Leicester Mercury. 14 November 1977. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "White Book of the 1978 Students' Struggle". Student Council of the Bandung Institute of Technology. 1 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "III. THE SOEHARTO LEGACY ON CAMPUS: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW". Human Rights Watch. 1 August 1998. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Indonesia's Student Protesters Emphasize Their Loyalty". The New York Times. 4 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Students in Bandung un study strike". New Nation. 12 February 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "15,000 Strike at 3 Lockheed Plants". The New York Times. 11 October 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Lockheed Walkout Ends Bitterly At Plants in Southern California". The New York Times. 4 January 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Dedieu, Jean-Philippe; Mbodj-Pouye, Aissatou (28 September 2015). "The first collective protest of black African migrants in postcolonial France (1960–1975): a struggle for housing and rights". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39 (6): 958–975. doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1081964. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- ^ "Alaska Pilot Strike Ends". The New York Times. 4 March 1979. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Maritime Strike Ends After 80 Days; Halt of El Al Operations Continues". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 10 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "General Strike Ends". The New York Times. 8 February 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Nicaragua". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 17 November 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Strike by estate staff called off". The Straits Times. 2 March 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "General Strike by Journalists Blacks out All News in Israel". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 3 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Broadcast Journalists End Strike". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 14 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "May 1978: Fleck women put fire back into feminism". Toronto Star. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Backhouse, Constance (20 May 2013). "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration". Osgoode Hall Law Journal. SSRN 2263430. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Where did our rights come from? - Fleck Strike, 1978". Unifor. 3 November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Godden, Mason (18 January 2021). "Contesting Big Brother: Legal Mobilization against Workplace Surveillance in the Puretex Knitting Company Strike, 1978–1979". Labour/Le Travail. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- ^ Dedieu, Jean-Philippe (1979). "Madeleine Parent discusses Puretex strike". CBC Radio Archives. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- ^ Pringle, Allyn (23 June 2021). "Museum Musings: Beer woes of Whistler". Pique Newsmagazine. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Zeidler, Maryse (3 June 2018). "'It was a nasty dispute': Remembering the B.C. beer lockout of 1978". CBC News. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Carmody, Deirdre (26 September 1979). "Montreal Star Ceases Publication After Loss of Circulation in Strike". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "The end of a strike and the start of a losing battle for the Montreal Star". CBC News. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "The fight over the future of newspapers in 1978". CBC News. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "1978 Safeway Strike". Manitoba Food History. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ ""Labour's War"- Remembering the Safeway Strike of 1978". Oral History Centre. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Firefighters' Strike In Memphis Brings Blazes and Curfew". The New York Times. 3 July 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Fleischer, Mark (5 July 2023). "'ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS' Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes". Storyboard Memphis. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Birch, Joe (9 July 2014). "'Blue Flu' brings back memories of 1978 police-fire strike". Action News 5. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Thieblot, A.J. (1 January 1983). "Memphis Police and Firefighters' Strike of 1978". NCJRS Virtual Library. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Australia's telecom strike continues". The Business Times. 30 August 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Telecom Dispute Widens". The Canberra Times. 8 August 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Teachers' Strike Continues". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 13 September 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Teachers End Strike". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 27 December 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Five union men charged with prolonging strike". The Straits Times. 28 October 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Perhaps Canada Post wasn't solely to blame for trouble in '78?". CBC News. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Horverak, O. (1 March 1983). "The 1978 strike at the Norwegian Wine and Spirits Monopoly". Addiction. 78 (1): 51–66. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02481.x. PMID 6188475. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Emergency Declared in Ghana". The Washington Post. 8 November 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Getler, Michael (28 November 1978). "West German Steelworkers Begin Strike for 35-Hour Week". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Ruhr Steel Strike Talks Off". The New York Times. 19 December 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Thimm, Alfred L. (1979). "The German steel strike of 1978-79 : implications and consequences". The Columbia Journal of World Business. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Pickets in the snow". The Straits Times. 30 November 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "'$11 million loss a day' India dock strike begins to hit economy". The Straits Times. 25 November 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Talks Are Starting in India to End Dockers'". The New York Times. 20 November 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Hotel Workers on Canary Islands Continue Stoppage for Sixth Day". The New York Times. 29 December 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.