worker protests
Employees demanding change
Worker protests are collective actions by employees demanding better conditions, pay, or rights from employers or governments.
Forms range from strikes and walkouts to picketing and demonstrations.
Worker protests shut down the factory for three days.
The term emphasizes the class identity of participants—workers acting together against those who control their labor.
- Haymarket affair1886 Chicago labor riot
- walkoutsOrganized work stoppages
- picketingOrganized protest outside workplace
- sit-insStationary protest tactics
- slowdownsReductions in speed
employers · shop floor · wage inequality · strikes · scabs · workers · wildcat strike · labor movement · union · strike fund · trade unions · boycotts · fists · demands · living wage · fair pay · strike rights · banners
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
- 1848 RevolutionsHungarian Revolution, February Revolution, Roman Republic, Marx, Karl Marx
worker protestsemployer lockout
Company-initiated work stoppage
union busting · executive orders · workforce reduction · employer retaliation · layoffs
worker protestsquiet quitting
Working without exceeding requirements