labor strikes
Organized worker protests
Labor strikes are organized work stoppages by employees seeking to pressure employers into meeting demands—typically for better wages, working conditions, or union recognition.
Workers collectively refuse to work until negotiations yield results.
A strike may be brief or drag on for months: The labor strikes shut down the factory for six weeks.
The tactic dates to the industrial era but remains central to labor relations today.
- scabDried blood crust
- wage disputesDisagreements about worker pay
- fair wagesReasonable compensation for labor
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- bargaining tableWhere parties negotiate agreements
solidarity · walking out · picket line · picket signs · strikebreaker · Haymarket affair · trade unions · economic inequality · activism · protest · union · union leadership · shop floor · legal repercussions · lockout · unionization · fists · back to work
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labor strikeslockouts
Employer bars workforce entry
plant closures · factory shutdowns · union busting · mass layoffs · layoffs
labor strikeslabor peace
Absence of work stoppages
union contracts · mediation · arbitration · conciliation · profit sharing
labor strikeslabor peace
Absence of work stoppages
full employment · business as usual · return to work · labor contracts · union contracts