miner's strike
Colliery labor stoppage
A miner's strike is a work stoppage by coal miners or other mining workers, typically to demand better wages, safer conditions, or union recognition.
Such strikes have historically been among the most consequential labor actions, sometimes lasting months and involving violent confrontations: The miner's strike of 1984 divided British communities for a generation.
- coal mineUnderground fuel extraction site
- black lung diseaseRespiratory damage from coal dust
- unionJoining into one
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- walkoutProtest by leaving
labor dispute · collective bargaining · wage disparity · picket line · brazier · brass band · Durham · scab · protest · unemployment · government intervention · pithead · solidarity · poverty line · working class · Margaret Thatcher · community support · soup kitchen
miner's strikereturn to work
Resume employment after absence
strikebreaking · back to work · business as usual · labor peace · full shift
miner's strikecave-in
Underground passage collapse
mine collapse · mine explosion · mine disaster · mining accident · explosion