coal strike
Pit workers' stoppage
A coal strike is a work stoppage by coal miners, typically to demand better wages, safer conditions, or union recognition.
Coal strikes have historically carried outsized economic and political weight because coal powered industrial economies: The 1902 coal strike threatened to leave American cities without heating fuel.
The term appears in historical contexts more than contemporary ones.
- minersOre extractors
- picketPointed fence stake
- unionJoining into one
- trade unionWorkers' collective for negotiations
- walkoutProtest by leaving
labor · working class · pit · colliery · protest · scab · solidarity · wages · bread and butter · underground · shaft · lantern · soot · grievance · industrial · hardship · negotiate · demand
- labor strikeswalkouts, walkout, picket lines, pickets, picket line
- strikeswalkout, work stoppage, picket line, picket, picketing
coal strikecoal production
Extraction of combustible sedimentite
mining operations · coal mining · full employment · return to work · business as usual
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