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[[File:"Der Streik" von Robert Koehler.jpg|thumb|Agitated workers face the factory owner in ''The Strike'', painted by [[Robert Koehler]] in 1886|upright=1.2]] 
The following is a list of specific [[strike action|strikes]] (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and [[general strike]]s (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).

==Chronological list of strikes==
{{Labor |expanded=strikes}}

===Twelfth century BCE===
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!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
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|c. 1158 BCE
| [[Deir el-Medina strikes]] (possibly earliest recorded strike action in history)
| [[Deir el-Medina]]
|[[New Kingdom of Egypt]]
|-
|}

===Fourteenth century===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1353
| 1353 Walsham Manor strike <ref>{{cite web |title=The Black Death |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c4KZKarKL4 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>
| [[Walsham le Willows]]
|[[England]]
|-
|}

===Sixteenth century===
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!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1538
| 1538 Cobblers' Strike<ref>{{cite news|title= The Story of a Strike |newspaper= Birmingham Daily Post |date= 27 December 1893|page= 2 }}</ref>
| [[Wisbech]]
|[[England]]
|-
|}

===Seventeenth century===
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!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1619
| [[1619 Jamestown Polish craftsmen strike|Polish craftsmen's strike]]
| [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]
|[[Thirteen Colonies]]
|-
|1661
| [[Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot|Indentured Servants' Plot]]
| [[Virginia colony]]
|[[Thirteen Colonies]]
|}

===Eighteenth century===
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!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1766
| [[Real del Monte 1766 Strike|Silver miners' strike]]
| [[Mineral del Monte]]
|[[Mexico]]
|-
| 1787
| [[Calton weavers' strike|Weavers' strike]]
| [[Calton, Glasgow]]
|[[Scotland]]
|-
|}

===Nineteenth century===

====1800–1849====

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date
! Strike
! Place
! Country
|-
| 1818 
| Manchester Mill Worker's Strike
| New Hampshire
| United States
<!-- The workers were on strike to protest a 25% pay cut -->
|-
| 1824 
| Slater's Mill Women's Strike
| Rhode Island
| United States
<!-- The women were on strike to protest a 25% pay cut -->
|-
| 1828 
| New Hampshire Mill Women's Strike
| New Hampshire
| United States
<!-- The women were on strike new end rules that fined them for being late, forbade talking on the job, and required church attendance. They were forced to return with no changes, their leaders fired and black listed. -->
|-

|1833
|[[Anzin miners' strike|Four pennies riot]]
|[[Anzin]]
|France
|-
| 1834 
| Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike
| Lowell, Massachusetts
| United States
<!-- The women went on strike because their wages were cut. The threat of replacing them forced them back and they were punished with further wage cuts, their leaders fired. -->
|-
|1835
|[[1835 Paterson textile strike|Textile strike]]<!-- affiliation unclear, see [[Talk:1835 Paterson textile strike#Union affiliation?]] --> 
|[[Paterson, New Jersey]] 
|[[United States]]
|-
|1835
|[[1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strike]]
|[[Washington Navy Yard]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]]
|[[United States Navy|United States]]
|- 
| 1835 
| New England Mill Strike
| New England
| United States
<!-- 20 different factories went on strike to reduce the work day from {{frac|13|1|2}} hours to 11, the end of fines for being late, and to get cash instead of company scrip for pay. The long duration of the strike and the fear of losing their jobs caused some to go back to work, but in the end they won a reduction in the work day to 12 hours with the same pay and only 9 hours on Saturday instead of the 13 1/2 for all 6 days. -->
|-
| 1835 
| [[1835 Philadelphia general strike|Philadelphia General Strike]]
| Philadelphia
| United States
<!-- 50 different unions joined forces for a city-wide strike demanding a 10-hour day for the same pay. After a short while, they won their demand, and this victory launched a nation-wide movement for the 10-hour day. By 1860, the work day was down on average to just above 10 hours. -->
|-
| 1836 
| Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike
| Lowell, Massachusetts
| United States
<!-- 1500 women went on strike against a raise in their boarding house rent. They marched for a month until they ran out of money and went back to work with no relief, their leaders fired. -->
|}

====1850–1899====
[[File:Frick to Carnegie letter about the arming of the Pinkertons.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkerton guards and County Sheriffs arrive to confront the strikers in the 1892 Homestead]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Date
! Strike
! Place
! Country
|-
|1853–1854
|[[Preston strike of 1853–1854]]
|[[Preston, Lancashire]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1859
|[[London builders' strike (1859)|London builders' strike]]
|[[London]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1860
|[[New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860]]
|[[Lynn, Massachusetts]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1864
|[[Collar Laundry Union|Collar Laundry Union strike]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Loomis |first=Erik |date=2020 |title=A History of America in Ten Strikes|page=233 |publisher=[[The New Press]] |isbn=978-1620976272}}</ref>
|[[Troy, New York]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|-
|1865
|[[Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865|Upper Peninsula miners' strike]]
|[[Marquette, Michigan]] 
|[[United States]]
|-
|1867
|[[1867 Chinese Labor Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ryan|first=Patrick Spaulding|date=2022|title=Saving Face Without Words: A Confucian Perspective on The Strike of 1867|url=https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067005}}</ref>
|[[Sierra Nevada, California]] 
|[[United States]]
|-
|1870
|[[North Adams strike]]
|[[North Adams, Massachusetts]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1872
|[[Gas Stokers' strike]]
|[[London]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1872
|[[Metropolitan Police strike of 1872]]
|London
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1873
|[[Coal miners' strike of 1873]]
|northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania
|[[United States]]
|-
|1874
|[[Tompkins Square Riot (1874)|Tompkins Square Riot]] 
|[[New York City]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1877 
|[[Great Railroad Strike]] 
|nationwide
|[[United States]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://libcom.org/history/articles/us-rail-strikes-1877|title=The great railroad strike, 1877 – Howard Zinn|work=libcom.org}}</ref>
|-
|1877–1878
|[[Cigar makers' strike of 1877]]
|[[New York City]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1881
|[[1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike]]
|[[Atlanta]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1883
|[[Camp Dump strike]]
|[[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], [[Nebraska]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1886
|[[Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886|Great Southwest railroad strike]] 
|nationwide
|[[United States]]
|-
|1886
|[[Haymarket affair]] 
|[[Chicago, Illinois]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1886
|[[Bay View massacre]]
|[[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1887
|[[Thibodaux massacre]] (sugar cane workers' strike)
|[[Lafourche Parish, Louisiana]] 
|[[United States]]
|-
|1888
|[[Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888|Burlington railroad strike]] 
|[[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1888
|[[Matchgirls' strike]]
|[[London]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1889
|[[London dock strike of 1889|London dock strike]]
|[[London, England]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1889
|[[Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889]]
|[[Oslo]]
|[[Sweden-Norway]]
|-
|1890
|[[Southampton Dock strike of 1890|Southampton Dock strike]] 
|[[Southampton, England]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1890
|[[1890 Australian maritime dispute|Maritime dispute]] 
|[[Melbourne]]
|[[Australia]]
|-
|1891
|[[1891 Australian shearers' strike|Australian shearers' strike]] 
|[[Queensland]]
|[[Australia]]
|-
|1891
|[[Cotton pickers' strike of 1891]]
|[[Lee County, Arkansas]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1891
|[[Coal Creek War]] (miners)
|[[Anderson County, Tennessee]] 
|[[United States]]
|-
|1892
|[[1892 Broken Hill miners' strike|Miners' strike]] 
|[[Broken Hill]]
|[[Australia]]
|-
|1892
|[[Homestead strike]] (steel workers)
|[[Homestead, Pennsylvania]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1892
|[[Buffalo switchmen's strike]]
|[[Buffalo, New York]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1892
|[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892|Coeur d'Alene labor strike]] 
|[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1893
|[[UK miners' strike (1893)|UK miners' strike]]
| nationwide
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1894
|[[Pullman Strike]] 
|[[Pullman, Chicago]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1894
|[[American Railway Union|Great Northern Railway strike]]
|nationwide
|[[United States]]
|-
|1894
|[[Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894|Bituminous coal miners' strike]] 
| nationwide
|[[United States]]
|-
|1895
|[[1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike|Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike]]
|[[Yaroslavl]], [[Yaroslavl Governorate]]
|[[Russian Empire]]
|-
|1896
|[[Leadville miners' strike]]
|[[Leadville, Colorado]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1897
|[[Lattimer massacre]] 
|[[Lattimer, Pennsylvania]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1898
|[[Welsh coal strike of 1898|South Wales coal strike]]
|[[Wales]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1899
| [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899|Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation]]
|[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1899
|[[Weight Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Koepnick|first=Brian|date=1996|title=Tampa's Historic Cigar Factories: Making a Case for Preservation|url=https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/koepnick_brian_d_200508_mhp.pdf}}</ref>
|[[Ybor City]], [[Tampa, Florida]]
|United States
|-
|1899
|[[Newsboys' strike of 1899|Newsboys' strike]] 
|[[New York City]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1899 
|[[1899 Russian student strike|Russian student strike]] 
|[[Saint Petersburg State University|St. Petersburg University]]
|[[Russian Empire]]
|}

===Twentieth century===

====1900s====
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! Date
! Strike
! Place
! Country
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| 1900
| [[St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900]]
| [[St. Louis, Missouri]]
|[[United States]]
|-
| 1900–1903 
| [[Penrhyn quarry#The "Great Strike"|Penrhyn 'Streic Fawr' ('Great Strike)]]
| [[Bethesda, Gwynedd|Bethesda, North Wales]]
| [[Wales, UK]]
|-
| 1900
| Anthracite coal strike<!-- no article; the one named this is about the 1902 strike -->
| [[Lehigh Valley|Eastern Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1901
|[[U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901]]
| [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1902
|[[Coal strike of 1902|Anthracite coal strike]]
| [[Illinois]], [[Mississippi]] and [[Texas]]
| United States
|-
| 1903
|[[Oxnard strike of 1903]]
| [[Oxnard, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1903
|[[Carbon County Strike]]
| [[Carbon County, Utah]]
| United States
|-
| 1903–1904
|[[Colorado Labor Wars]], [[Western Federation of Miners]]
| [[Colorado]]
| United States
|-
| 1906
|[[Cananea strike]]
| [[Sonora, Mexico]]
| [[Mexico]]
|-
| 1907
|[[Music Hall Strike of 1907]]<ref>{{cite book|editor=Taylor, Boswell|title=Mastermind|year=1984|edition=1984|pages=58, 136|publisher=Treasure Press|isbn=0-907812-64-3}}</ref>
| [[London]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1907
|[[Boston garment worker strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=History Early Struggles|url=https://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/history/earlyStruggles.html|access-date=2021-07-07|website=ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu}}</ref>
|[[Boston]]
|United States
|-
| 1907
|[[1907 Belfast Dock strike|Belfast Dock strike]]
| [[Belfast]]
| [[Ireland]]
|-
| 1907
|[[Río Blanco strike]] 
| [[Orizaba, Veracruz]]
| Mexico
|-
| 1907
|[[1907 San Francisco streetcar strike]] 
| [[San Francisco, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1907
|[[Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers]] 
| [[Languedoc]], [[Pyrénées-Orientales]]
| France
|-
| 1908
|[[Pensacola streetcar operators' strike]]
| [[Pensacola, Florida]]
| United States
|-
|1909
|[[Georgia Railroad strike of 1909|Georgia Railroad strike]]
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|United States
|-
|1909
|[[Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909]]
|[[McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania]]
|United States
|-
| 1909
|[[New York shirtwaist strike of 1909]] "Uprising of the 20,000"
| [[Manhattan, New York]]
| United States
|}

====1910s====
[[File:Lena 17 04 1912.jpg|thumb|right|Bodies immediately after the [[Lena massacre]] of striking goldfield workers in 1912]]
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! Date
! Strike
! Place
! Country
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| 1910–1911
|[[Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911]]
| [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1910–1911
|[[Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11]]<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Valenzuela|first1=Ricardo R. Gonzales|last2=Tampa Historical Team|title=1910 Workers' Strike – The issue of "selectors" creates another strike in Tampa|url=https://tampahistorical.org/items/show/145|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Tampa Historical|language=en}}</ref>
| [[Tampa, Florida]]
| United States
|-
| 1910
|[[Clockmakers' strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|first=|date=July 6, 2011|title=July 7: The Great Revolt|url=https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/july-7-the-great-revolt/|access-date=July 7, 2021|website=[[Jewish Currents]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1910–1911
|[[1910 Chicago garment workers' strike]]
| [[Chicago]]
| United States
|-
| 1911
|[[1911 Liverpool general transport strike]]
| [[Liverpool, Merseyside]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1911
|[[Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911]]
| [[Illinois]], [[Mississippi]] and [[Texas]]
| United States
|-
|1911
|[[1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike]]
|[[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]
|United States
|-
| 1912
|[[1912 Lawrence textile strike]], also called the "[[Bread and Roses]]" strike
| [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]]
| United States
|-
| 1912
|[[Waihi miners' strike]]
| [[Waihi]]
| [[New Zealand]]
|-
| 1911–1912
|[[Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912]]
| Eastern Louisiana
| United States
|-
| 1912
|[[Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912]]
| [[Kanawha County, West Virginia]]
| United States
|-
|1912
|[[1912 New York City waiters' strike]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
|1912–1913 
|[[1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike]]
|[[Little Falls (city), New York|Little Falls, New York]]
|United States
|-
|1912–13
|[[Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912]]
|[[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|United States
|-
|1912
|[[1912 Brisbane general strike|1912 Brisbane General Strike]]
|[[Brisbane|Brisbane, Queensland]]
|Australia
|-
|1913
|[[1913 El Paso smelters' strike]]
|[[El Paso, Texas]]
|United States
|-
| 1913
|[[Dublin lock-out|Dublin strike and lockout]]
| [[Dublin]]
| [[Ireland]]
|-
| 1913
|[[Ludlow Massacre]]
| [[Ludlow, Colorado]]
| United States
|-
| 1913
|[[1913 Paterson silk strike|Paterson silk strike]]
| [[Paterson, New Jersey]]
| United States
|-
|1913
|[[1913 Sligo Dock strike]]
|[[Sligo]]
|Ireland
|-
|1913
|[[Leith dockers' strike of 1913]]
|[[Leith]], [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
|United Kingdom
|-
| 1913
|[[1913 Great Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[New Zealand]]
|-
| 1913
|[[Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913]]
| [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]
| United States
|-
| 1913–1914
|[[Copper Country strike of 1913–1914]]
| [[Upper Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 1914–1939
|[[Burston Strike School|Bursdon teachers' strike]]
| [[Burston, Norfolk]]
| [[England]]
|-
|1914–1915
|[[1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike]]
|[[Atlanta]]
|United States
|-
| 1915–16
|[[Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–16|Bayonne refinery strikes]]
| [[Bayonne, New Jersey]]
| United States
|-
|1915–17
|[[1915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike]]
| [[Johnson County, Arkansas]]
| United States
|-
|1916
|[[1916 Atlanta streetcar strike]]
|[[Atlanta]]
|United States
|-
|1916–1917
|[[1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike]]
|[[Minnesota]]
|United States
|-
|1917
|[[1917 Australian general strike|The Great Strike]]
|nationwide
|[[Australia]]
|-
| 1917–19
|[[1917–1919 Brazil strike movement]] 
| nationwide
|[[Brazil]]
|-
|1917
|[[1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike]]
|[[Minneapolis–Saint Paul]]
|United States
|-
| 1918
|[[Malbone Street Wreck|BLE strike in New York City]]
| New York City
| United States
|-
| 1918–19
|[[British police strikes in 1918 and 1919]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
|1918–20
|[[1918–1920 New York City rent strikes]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
| 1919
|[[Battle of George Square]]
| [[Glasgow]]
| [[Scotland]]
|-
| 1919
|[[US Strike wave of 1919]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1919
|[[La Canadiense strike]]
| [[Catalonia]]
| [[Spain]]
|-
|1919
|[[Mulberry, Florida#Florida Pebble Strike|Florida Pebble Strike]]
|[[Mulberry, Florida]]
|United States
|-
|1919
|[[Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919]]
|[[Boston]]
|United States
|-
|1919
|[[1919 Actors' Equity Association strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|-
|1919
|[[Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQf-xNYbiG4C&dq=1919+los+angeles+%22streetcar%22+strike+start&pg=PA182|title=Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California, 1890–1925|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=2002|location=Detroit, Michigan|pages=182|isbn=0814330436|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
|[[Los Angeles, California]]
|United States
|-
|1919
|[[1919 Actors' Equity Association strike]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
|1919
|[[Boston Police Strike]]
|[[Boston, Massachusetts]]
|United States
|-
| 1919
|[[Steel strike of 1919]]
| [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
|1919
|[[United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919|Coal strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|}

====1920s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1920
|[[Battle of Matewan]]
| [[Matewan, West Virginia]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 1920
|[[1920 Alabama coal strike]]
| [[Alabama]]
| United States
|-
| 1920
|[[1920 French railway strikes]]
| nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 1920
|[[Denver streetcar strike of 1920]]
| [[Denver, Colorado]]
| United States
|-
| 1920
|[[Oahu sugar strike of 1920]]
| [[Oahu, Hawaii]]
| [[Territory of Hawaii]]
|-
| 1921
|[[Kronstadt rebellion]]
| [[Kronstadt]]
| [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]
|-
|1921
|[[Black Friday (1921)]] (expected strike not called)
|nationwide
|[[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1921
|[[Battle of Blair Mountain]]
| [[Logan County, West Virginia]]
| United States
|-
|1922 
|[[1922 New England Textile Strike|New England Textile Strike]]
|Northeast
|United States
|-
|1922
|[[UMW General coal strike (1922)|UMW General coal strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1922
|[[Herrin massacre]]
| [[Herrin, Illinois]]
| United States
<!-- same as next entry: |-
| 1922
|[[Railroad Shopmen's Strike]]
| nationwide
| United States -->
|-
| 1922
|[[Great Railroad Strike of 1922]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1922
|[[1922 seamen's strike]]
| citywide
| Hong Kong
|-
|1923
|[[1923 San Pedro maritime strike]]
|[[San Pedro, Los Angeles]], [[California]]
|United States
|-
| 1923
|[[1923 Victorian police strike]]
|[[Melbourne, Victoria]]
|[[Australia]]
|-
| 1924
|[[Hanapepe massacre]]
| [[Kaua{{okina}}i, Hawaii]]
| United States
|-
| 1925
| [[Ammanford anthracite strike]]
| [[Ammanford, Carmarthenshire]]
| [[Wales]]
|-
| 1925–1926
| [[Canton-Hong Kong strike]]
| [[Guangzhou]] and [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]
| China and Hong Kong
|-
|1926
|[[1926 United Kingdom general strike]]
|Nationwide
|United Kingdom
|-
| 1926
|[[1926 Passaic textile strike]]
| [[Passaic, New Jersey]]
| United States
|-
|1927
|[[1927 Indiana bituminous strike]]
|nationwide
|United States 
|-
| 1927
|[[Columbine Mine massacre]]
| [[Serene, Colorado]]
| United States
|-
| 1928
|[[1928 New Bedford textile strike]]
| [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]
| United States
|-
| 1928
|[[Banana massacre]]
| nationwide
| [[Colombia]]
|-
| 1929
|[[1929 Australian timber workers' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Australia]]
|-
| 1929
|[[Lupeni Strike of 1929]]
| [[Lupeni, Harghita]]
| [[Romania]]
|-
| 1929
|[[1929 New Orleans streetcar strike]]
| [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
| United States
|-
| 1929
| [[Rothbury Riot]]
| [[North Rothbury, New South Wales]]
| Australia
|-
| 1929
|[[Loray Mill strike]] 
| [[Gastonia, North Carolina]]
| United States
|}

====1930s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1930
|[[Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930]]
|[[Imperial Valley]], [[California]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1930
|[[Phu Rieng Do|Phú Riềng Đỏ]]
|[[Biên Hòa Province]]
|[[French Indochina]]
|-
| 1931
|[[Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931]]
| [[Tampa, Florida]]
| United States
|-
| 1931
|[[Santa Clara cannery strike]]
| [[Santa Clara, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1931
|[[Ådalen shootings]]
|[[Ådalen]]
| [[Sweden]]
|-
| 1931
|[[Harlan County War]]
| [[Harlan County, Kentucky]]
| United States
|-
| 1931
|[[Invergordon Mutiny]]
| [[Invergordon]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1932
|[[Shunjuen Incident]]
| [[Tokyo]]
| [[Japan]]
|-
| 1932
|[[Century Airlines pilots' strike]]
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| United States
|-
| 1932
|[[Ford Hunger March]]
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 1932
|[[Griviţa strike of 1933]]
| [[Bucharest]]
| [[Romania]]
|-
| 1933
|[[Briggs Manufacturing Company]] strike
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
|1933
|[[1933 Funsten Nut strike]]
|[[Greater St. Louis]]
|United States
|-
| 1933
|[[California agricultural strikes of 1933]]
| [[California]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Kohler Strikes#Strike of 1934|Kohler strike]]
| [[Sheboygan, Wisconsin]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Fieldites|1934 New York hotel strike]]<!-- best target for now -->
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Auto-Lite strike]]
| [[Toledo, Ohio]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Minneapolis general strike of 1934]]
| [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike]]
| [[U.S. West Coast]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Trade unions in Costa Rica#Growing political pressure and the 1934 United Fruit Banana Strike|United Fruit banana strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Costa Rica]]
|-
| 1934
|[[Textile workers' strike (1934)]]
| [[New England]], [[Mid-Atlantic region]] and [[U.S. southern states]]
| United States
|-
| 1934
|[[Asturian miners' strike of 1934]]
| [[Asturia]]
| [[Spain]]
|-
|1934–35
|[[1934–35 Milwaukee sales clerks' strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=White|first=Jonathan|date=January 24, 2013|title=Milwaukee sales clerks strike for wage increases, 1934|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/milwaukee-sales-clerks-strike-wage-increases-1934|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|[[Milwaukee]]
|United States
|-
| 1935
|[[Battle of Ballantyne Pier]]
| [[Vancouver, British Columbia]]
|[[Canada]]
|-
| 1935
|[[Copperbelt strike (1935)]]
| [[Copperbelt Province]]
| [[Northern Rhodesia]]
|-
| 1935
|[[Pacific Northwest lumber strike]]
| [[U.S. Pacific Northwest]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 1935
|[[On-to-Ottawa Trek]]
| [[Vancouver, British Columbia]]
| Canada
|-
| 1935
|[[1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike]]
| [[U.S. Gulf Coast]]
| United States
|-
|1936
|{{Ill|1936 Venezuelan oil strike|es|Huelga petrolera en Venezuela de 1936}}
|nationwide
|Venezuela
|-
| 1936
|[[Flint sit-down strike]]
| [[Flint, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 1936
|[[1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike|Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike]]
| [[U.S. Gulf Coast]]
| United States
|-
| 1936
|[[SS California strike|SS ''California'' strike]]
| [[San Pedro, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1936–37
|[[Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
|1937
|[[1937 Fleischer Studios strike]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
| 1937
|[[Little Steel strike]] including [[Memorial Day massacre of 1937]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1937
|[[1937 Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike]]
|[[Lewiston, Maine]] and [[Auburn, Maine]]
| United States
|-
|1937
|[[Buses in London|London busmen's strike]]
|[[London]]
|United Kingdom
|-
|1938
|[[1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike]]
|[[San Antonio]]
|United States
|-
| 1938
|[[Hilo massacre]]
| [[Hilo, Hawaii]]
| [[Territory of Hawaii]]
|-
| 1939
|[[Tool and die strike of 1939]]
|[[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|}

====1940s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1941
|[[February Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Netherlands]]
|-
|1941
|[[1941 theatre strike in Norway|Norway theatre strike]]
|[[Oslo]], [[Bergen]], [[Trondheim]]
|[[German occupation of Norway|German-occupied Norway]]
|-
|1941
|[[Disney animators' strike]]
|[[Burbank, California]]
|[[United States]]
|-
|1941
|[[Milk strike]]
|Oslo
|German-occupied Norway
|-
| 1942
|[[1942 Betteshanger miners' strike]]
| [[Betteshanger]], Kent
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1942
|[[Quit India movement]]
| nationwide
| [[India]]
|-
| 1942–44
|[[1942–1944 musicians' strike|1942-44 musicians' strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1943
|[[1943 Akron rubber strike]]
|[[Akron, Ohio]]
|
|-
| 1943
|[[1943 Rolls-Royce strike]]
| [[Hillington, Scotland]]
| United Kingdom
|-
| 1944
|[[Philadelphia transit strike of 1944|Philadelphia Transit Strike]]
| [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1944
|[[Port Chicago mutiny]]
| [[Port Chicago, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1945
|[[Hollywood Black Friday]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1945–46
|[[Strike wave of 1946]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1945–46
|[[1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike]]
|[[Charleston, South Carolina]]
|United States
|-
| 1946
|[[African Mine Workers' Strike]]
| nationwide
|[[South Africa]]
|-
| 1946
|[[1946 Montreal Cotton Strike]]
| [[Montreal, Quebec]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 1946
|[[1946 Pilbara strike]]
| [[Pilbara]]
| [[Western Australia]]
|-
| 1946
|[[The Great Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946]]
|[[Hawaii]] nationwide
| [[Territory of Hawaii]]
|-
|1946
|[[1946 Palestine general strike]]
|nationwide
|[[Mandatory Palestine]]
|-
|1947
|[[Biratnagar Jute Mill Strike]]
|[[Biratnagar]]
|[[Kingdom of Nepal]]
|-
| 1947
|[[1947 Telephone strike|Telephone Strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1948
|[[1948 Queensland Railway strike]]
|[[Queensland]]
|[[Australia]]
|-
|1948
|[[1948 United States Meatpacking strike]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=United States Department of Labor |url=https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1948.pdf |title=Work Stoppages Caused by Labor-Management Disputes in 1948 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1949 |location=Washington, D.C. }}</ref>
|nationwide
|United States
|-
|1948
|[[Goodyear strike]]<ref name=":0" />
|[[Akron, Ohio]]
|United States
|-
|1948
|[[1948 Caterpillar strike]]<ref name=":0" />
|[[Peoria, Illinois]]
|United States
|-
| 1948
|[[1948 Boeing strike]]
| [[Seattle, Washington]]
| United States
|-
|1948
|[[1948 Miami Garment workers strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 9, 1948|title=Florida Roundup: MIAMI STRIKE ENDS|work=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19480909&id=mtctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pmQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1367,4933615|access-date=May 20, 2021}}</ref>
|[[Miami]], [[Florida]]
|United States
|-
| 1949
|[[Asbestos Strike]]
| [[Asbestos, Quebec]]
| Canada
|-
|1949
|[[1949 Calvary Cemetery strike]]
|[[New York City]]
|United States
|-
|1949
|[[1949 East German State Railway strike]]
|[[Berlin]]
|[[East Germany]]
|-
|1949
|[[1949 New York City taxicab strike]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
|1949
|[[1949 New York City brewery strike]]
|New York City
|United States
|-
| 1949
|[[1949 Australian coal strike]]
| nationwide
| Australia
|-
|1949
|[[1949 Kemi strike]]
|[[Kemi]]
|[[Finland]]
|-
|1949
|[[Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949]]
|[[Puget Sound]], Washington
|United States
|}

====1950s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1950
|{{Ill|1950 Venezuelan oil strike|es|Huelga petrolera en Venezuela de 1950}}
|nationwide
|Venezuela
|-
| 1950
|[[Atlanta transit strike of 1950]]
| [[Atlanta]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 1951
|[[1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute|New Zealand waterfront strike]]
| nationwide
| [[New Zealand]]
|-
|1951
|[[Barcelona tram strike]]
|[[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]]
|[[Spain]]
|-
|1951
|[[1951 Aliquippa steelworkers strike]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=United States Department of Labor |url=https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1951.pdf |title=Analysis of Work Stoppages During 1951 |publisher=United States |year=1952 |publication-place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
|[[Aliquippa, Pennsylvania]]
|United States
|-
|1951
|[[1951 Caterpillar strike]]<ref name=":1" />
|[[East Peoria, Illinois]]
|United States
|-
| 1952
|[[1952 steel strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1953
|[[1953 Milwaukee brewery strike]]
|[[Milwaukee]]
|United States
|-
| 1953
|[[Hartal 1953|The Hartal of 1953]]
| nationwide
|[[Sri Lanka]]
|-
| 1955
|[[Hock Lee bus riots]]
| [[Singapore]]
| [[Republic of Singapore]]
|-
| 1956
|[[Poznań protests of 1956]]
| [[Cegielski Factories]]
| [[Polish People's Republic]]
|-
|1957
|[[Murdochville strike]]
|[[Murdochville, Quebec]]
|[[Canada]]
|-
|1957
|[[1957 Long Island strike]]<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=United States Department of Labor |url=https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1957.pdf |title=Analysis of Work Stoppages: 1957 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1958 |publication-place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
|[[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|United States
|-
|1957
|[[1957 Western Electric strike]]<ref name=":6" />
|nationwide
|United States
|-
|1958–59
|[[1958–59 Mexican railroad strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mexican railroad workers strike for wages and union rights, 1958–1959 {{!}} Global Nonviolent Action Database|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/mexican-railroad-workers-strike-wages-and-union-rights-1958-1959|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|nationwide
|[[Mexico]]
|-
| 1959
|[[Steel strike of 1959]]
| nationwide
| United States
|}

====1960s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1960
|[[1960 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 1960
|[[Miike Struggle]]
| [[Ōmuta, Fukuoka|Ōmuta]], [[Fukuoka prefecture|Fukuoka]] and [[Arao, Kumamoto|Arao]], [[Kumamoto]]
| [[Japan]]
|-
| 1962
|[[1962 New York City newspaper strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1962
|[[Novocherkassk massacre|Novocherkassk strike]]
| [[Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant]]
| [[Soviet Union]]
|-
| 1963
|[[Reesor Siding Strike of 1963]]
| [[Reesor, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 1964
|[[1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike]]
| [[Mount Isa|Mount Isa, Queensland]]
| [[Australia]]
|-
|1964–65
|[[1964–1965 Scripto strike]]
|[[Atlanta]]
|United States
|-
| 1965–70
|[[Delano grape strike]]
| [[Delano, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1966
|[[1966 New York City transit strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1966–73
|[[Gurindji strike]]
| [[Kalkarindji, Northern Territory]]
| Australia
|-
| 1966
|[[Texas farm workers' strike]]
| [[Texas]]
| United States
|-
| 1966–67
|[[St. John's University strike of 1966–67]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
|1967
|[[1967 United States truckers strike]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=United States Department of Labor |url=https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1967.pdf |title=ANALYSIS OF WORK STOPPAGES 1967 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1969 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1967
|[[Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots]]
| citywide
| [[British Hong Kong]]
|-
|1967
|[[1967 United States Railroad strike]]<ref name=":2" />
|nationwide
|United States
|-
|1967
|[[1967 General Motors strike|September 1967 General Motors strike]]<ref name=":2" />
|[[Dayton, Ohio]]
|United States
|-
|1967
|[[1967 Caterpillar strike]]<ref name=":2" />
|[[Colorado]], [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Ohio]] and [[Pennsylvania]]
|United States
|-
|1967
|[[November 1967 General Motors strike]]<ref name=":2" />
|[[Pontiac, Michigan]]
|United States
|-
| 1968
|[[May 1968 in France]]
| nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 1968
|[[Memphis sanitation strike]]
| [[Memphis, Tennessee]]
| United States
|-
| 1968
|[[Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement|Chrysler wildcat strike]]
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 1968
|[[New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1968
|[[Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968]]
| [[Florida]]
| United States
|-
| 1968
|[[1968 NFL strike/lockout]]
| [[Florida]]
| United States
|-
| 1969
|[[UK miners' strike (1969)|Unofficial strike by mineworkers over pay of surface workers]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Douglas |first=David John |title=Pit Sense versus the State: A history of militant miners in the Doncaster area |year=1994 |location=London |publisher=Phoenic Press |pages=11–12 |isbn=0-948984-26-0  }}</ref>
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|}

====1970s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1970
|[[Dock Workers Strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1970
|[[U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970]]
| nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
|1970
|[[1970 Minneapolis teachers' strike]]
|[[Minneapolis]]
|United States
|-
| 1970–71
|[[Colour Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1970–71
|[[Salad Bowl strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1971
|[[1971 NYPD Work Stoppage]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1971
|[[1971 ILWU strike|Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.)]]
| [[U.S. West Coast]] [[Hawaii]] and [[British Columbia]]
| United States and [[Canada]]
|-
| 1971
|[[1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1972
|[[1972 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1972
|[[Shrewsbury Two|UK building workers' strike (1972)]]
|[[Shrewsbury, Shropshire]]
| United Kingdom
|-
| 1972
|[[UK miners' strike (1972)]]
| nationwide
| United Kingdom
|-
|1972
|[[Chile truckers' strike]]
|nationwide
|Chile
|-
|1973
|[[1973 New York City gravediggers' strike]]
|[[New York City]]
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Philadelphia teachers strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|[[Philadelphia]]
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike]]
|[[Kings Cross, New South Wales]]
|Australia
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Durban strikes]]
|[[Natal (province)|Natal]]
|[[South Africa]]
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Chicago teachers strike]]<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=United States Department of Labor |url=https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1973.pdf |title=Analysis of Work Stoppages, 1973 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1975 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
|[[Chicago]]
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Cleveland teachers strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|[[Cleveland]]
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Pennsylvania Central Transportation strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|[[Northeastern United States]]
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Detroit teachers strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|Detroit
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Chrysler strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|nationwide
|United States
|-
|1973
|[[1973 Caterpillar strike]]<ref name=":7" />
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1974
|[[1974 railway strike in India]] by 17 million workers of [[Indian Railways]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1819/18190750.htm |title=Welcome to Frontline : Vol. 29 :: No. 03 |publisher=Hinduonnet.com |access-date=2012-02-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219024133/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1819/18190750.htm |archive-date=2011-02-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944832,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222065706/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944832,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2008 |title=INDIA: Strangulating Strike |magazine=Time |date=1974-05-20 |access-date=2012-02-11}}</ref><ref name="a">[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1819/18190750.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922051707/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1819/18190750.htm|date=September 22, 2012}}</ref><ref name=b>{{cite journal|title=Railway Workers and Their Unions: Origins of 1974 Indian Railways Strike|author=Stephen Sherlock|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=24|issue=41|date=October 14, 1989|pages= 2311–2315+2317–2319+2321–2322|publisher=Published by: Economic and Political Weekly|jstor=4395459}}</ref>
| nationwide
| [[India]]
|-
|1974
|[[1974 Elliot Lake miners strike]]
|[[Elliot Lake]]
|Canada
|-
| 1974
|[[Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1974
|[[Ulster Workers' Council Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Northern Ireland]]
|-
| 1974
|[[UK miners' strike (1974)]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 1974
|[[1974 NFL strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1976–77
|[[Grunwick Dispute]]
| [[London]]
| [[England]]
|-
|1977
|[[1977 Atlanta sanitation strike]]
|[[Atlanta]]
|United States
|-
|1977
|[[1977 Latrobe Valley power strike]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/latrobe-valleys-1977-power-strike/ | title=Latrobe Valley's 1977 power strike – Solidarity Online | date=8 September 2017 }}</ref>
|[[Victoria (state)|Victoria]]
|Australia
|-
| 1977–78
|[[Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977–1978]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1977–78
|[[1977–78 Coors strike]]
|[[Golden, Colorado]]
|United States
|-
| 1978
|[[1978 New York City newspaper strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 1978
|[[Sudbury Strike of 1978]]
| [[Sudbury, Ontario]]
| Canada
|-
| 1978–79
|[[Winter of Discontent]]
| nationwide
| United Kingdom
|-
|1979
|[[1979 Boston University strike]]
|[[Boston]]
|United States
|-
|1979
|[[1979 New York prison guards' strike]]
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|United States
|}

====1980s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1980
|[[1980 Lublin strikes]]
|[[Lublin]]
|[[Poland]]
|-
| 1980
|[[Gdańsk Shipyard|Gdańsk Shipyard Strike]]
| [[Gdańsk]]
| Poland
|-
| 1980
|[[Upper Silesia 1980 strikes]]
| [[Jastrzębie-Zdrój]]
| Poland
|-
|1980
|[[1980 actors strike]]
|nationwide (primarily [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]])
|[[United States]]
|-
|1981
|[[1981 Schlitz strike]]
|[[Milwaukee]]
|[[United States]]
|-
| 1981
|[[Air traffic controllers' strike of 1981|Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1981
|[[Bydgoszcz events]]
| [[Bydgoszcz]]
| Poland
|-
| 1981
|[[1981 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1981
|[[1981 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1981
|[[1981 strike at the Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń]]
|Bieruń
|Poland
|-
|1981
|[[1981 Milwaukee Police strike]]
|Milwaukee
|United States
|-
|1982
|[[Great Bombay textile strike]]
|[[Mumbai]]
|[[India]]
|-
|1982
|[[1982 animators' strike]]
|[[Greater Los Angeles]]
|United States
|-
| 1982
|[[1982 NFL strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1982
|[[1982 garment workers' strike]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bao |first1=Xiaolan |title=Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92 |page=3 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=2001 |isbn=9780252026317 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_-KjLInXdsC&pg=PA3}}</ref>
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
|1983
|[[1983 SEPTA Regional Rail strike]]
|[[Greater Philadelphia]]
|United States
|-
| 1983
|[[Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983]]
| [[Greenlee County, Arizona]]
| United States
|-
|1983
|[[1983 Greyhound Bus Lines strike in Seattle]]
|[[Seattle]]
|United States
|-
| 1984
|[[Battle of Orgreave]]
| [[Orgreave, South Yorkshire]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 1984
|[[Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation]]
| [[Birkenhead]]
| United Kingdom
|-
| 1984–85
|[[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike]]
| nationwide
| United Kingdom
|-
|1985
|[[1985 Pan Am strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1985–86
|[[1985–86 Hormel strike]]
| [[Austin, Minnesota]]
| United States
|-
|1985–87
|[[1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike]]
|[[Watsonville, California]]
|United States
|-
|1985–86
|[[1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike]]
|[[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]
|United States
|-
| 1985
|[[Mudginberri dispute]]
| [[Northern Territory]]
| [[Australia]]
|-
| 1985
|[[1985 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| United States and [[Canada]]
|-
| 1986
|[[Dollar Sweets dispute]]
| [[State of Victoria]]
| Australia
|-
| 1986
|[[Pan Am Railways#Labor disputes and contraction|Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike]]
| [[North Billerica, Massachusetts]]
| United States
|-
| 1986
|[[Major Soccer League|Major Indoor Soccer League lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1986
|[[Wapping dispute]]
| [[London]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 1987
|[[International Paper strike]]
| [[Corinth, New York]]
| United States
|-
| 1987
|[[1987 NFL strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1987
|[[Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher's Strike]]
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 1988
|[[1988 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
|1988
|[[1988 Polish strikes]]
|nationwide
|Poland
|-
|1988
|[[1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike]]
|nationwide
|United Kingdom
|-
| 1989
| [[1989 Kosovo miners' strike]]
| [[SAP Kosovo]]
| [[SFR Yugoslavia]]
|-
| 1989
|[[1989 Australian pilots' strike]]
| nationwide
| Australia
|-
| 1989–90
|[[Pittston Coal strike]]
| [[Pittston, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1989–93
| [[1990s Donbas miners' strikes|Donbas miners' strikes]]
| [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| Soviet Union
|-
| 1989–90
|[[1989–90 British ambulance strike]]
| Nationwide
| United Kingdom
|}

====1990s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 1990
|[[1990 Major League Baseball lockout]]
| nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
|1990
|[[1990 Delta Pride strike]]
|[[Sunflower County, Mississippi]]
|United States
|-
| 1990
|[[Mandal Commission protests of 1990]] (India, 1990)
| [[Mandal]]
| [[India]]
|-
| 1991
|[[Frontier Hotel Culinary Workes]] (Las Vegas, US 1991–1998)
| [[Las Vegas]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 1991
| [[1991 Belarusian strikes]]
| [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]]
| [[Soviet Union]]
|-
| 1991
|[[1991 Public Service Alliance of Canada Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=CBC |title=Canada's national strike in 1991 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1670959171671}}</ref>
| [[Ottawa]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
|1992
|[[1992 United States railroad strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1992
|[[1992 NHL strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Canada]] and United States
|-
|1992
|[[Southern California drywall strike]]
|[[Southern California]]
|United States
|-
| 1993
|[[Timex strike]]
| [[Dundee]]
| [[Scotland]]
|-
| 1994–95
|[[1994–95 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1994–95
|[[1994–95 NHL lockout]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1994
|[[San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994]]
| [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
| United States
|-
| 1995
|[https://www.themilitant.com/1995/5939/5939_3.html 1995 Boeing strike]
| Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton)
| United States
|-
| 1995–97
|[[Detroit newspaper strike of 1995–1997|Detroit newspaper strike]]
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 1995
|[[1995 strikes in France]]
| nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 1995
|[[1995 NBA lockout]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1995–98
|[[Liverpool dockers' strike (1995–98)]]
| [[Liverpool, Merseyside]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 1996
|[[1996 NBA lockout]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1996–97
|[[1996–1997 strikes in South Korea]]
| nationwide
| [[South Korea]]
|-
| 1996–97
|[[1996–97 NBA season#1996 NBA lockout|1996 NBA lockout]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1996–97
| [[1990s Donbas miners' strikes|Donbas miners' strikes]]
| Donbas
| [[Ukraine]]
|-
| 1997
|[[United Parcel Service strike of 1997|1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1997
|[[Politics of Ontario#Teachers' Strike|1997 Ontario teachers strike]]
| [[Ontario]]
| Canada
|-
| 1998
|[[1998 Australian waterfront dispute]]
|[[Melbourne]], [[Brisbane]], [[Fremantle]] and [[Sydney]]
| [[Australia]]
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 Russian miners' strike]]
| [[Komi Republic]], [[Kemerovo Oblast]], [[Rostov Oblast]]
| [[Russia]]
|-
| 1998
| [[1990s Donbas miners' strikes|Donbas miners' strikes]]
| [[Luhansk Oblast]]
| Ukraine
|-
| 1998–99
|[[1998–99 NBA lockout]]
| nationwide
| Canada and United States
|-
| 1999
|[[1999 UNAM strike]]
| [[Mexico City]]
| [[Mexico]]
|}

===Twenty-first century===

====2000s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 2000
|[[Verizon Strike of 2000|Verizon Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2000
|[[2000 commercial actors strike]]
| [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2001
|[[Jeffboat|Jeffboat wildcat strike]]
| [[Jeffersonville, Indiana]]
| United States
|-
| 2001
|[[National Gallery of Canada]]
| [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 2001–2003
|[[Friction Dynamics - T&G Union]]
| [[Caernarfon]], [[Wales]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2002
|[[UK Firefighter strike 2002]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2003
|[[Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Scotland]]
|-
| 2003
|[[2003 Broadway Musicians Strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2003
|[[Congress Plaza Hotel|2003 June 15 Hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel]].<ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite news|title=Congress Hotel Strike Ends, 10-Year Strike Was Longest In The World|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/congress-hotel-strike-end_n_3359584.html|work=Huffington Post|access-date=31 May 2013|date=30 May 2013}}</ref>
| [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| United States
|-
| 2003–2004
|[[Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004]]
| [[Southern California]]
| United States
|-
| 2004–2005
|[[2004–05 NHL lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States and Canada
|-
| 2005
|[[Bolivian Gas War]]
| nationwide
|[[Bolivia]]
|-
| 2005
|[[2005 New York City transit strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2006
|[[2006 Dhaka strikes|Dhaka strikes]]
| [[Dhaka]]
| [[Bangladesh]]
|-
| 2006
|[[2006 labor protests in France]]
| nationwide
|[[France]]
|-
| 2006
|[[2006 Oaxaca protests]]
| [[Oaxaca]]
| [[Mexico]]
|-
| 2006
|[[2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute]] 
| [[Auckland]], [[Palmerston North]] and [[Christchurch]]
| [[New Zealand]]
|-
| 2006
|[[South Korean railroad strike of 2006]]
| nationwide
| [[South Korea]]
|-
| 2006
|[[2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike]]
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| Canada
|-
| 2006
|[[University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign]]
| [[Coral Gables, Florida]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 Freightliner wildcat strike]]
| [[Portland, Oregon]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 South African public servants' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[South Africa]]
|-
|2007
|[[2007 Israeli student strike|2007 Israeli teachers' strike]]
|nationwide
|[[Israel]]
|-
| 2007
|[[Orange County Transportation Authority#Labor disputes|2007 Orange County transit strike]]
| [[Orange, California]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[Hayward teachers strike]]
| [[Hayward, California]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 General Motors strike]]
| [[Detroit, Michigan]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 UK postal strikes]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2007
|[[November 2007 strikes in France]]
| nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 2007
|[[German national rail strike of 2007]]
| nationwide
| [[Germany]]
|-
| 2007
|[[2007 South Africa miners' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[South Africa]]
|-
| 2007–2008
|[[2007–2008 CBS News writers strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2007–2008
|[[2007–2008 Cork players strike]]
| [[County Cork]]
| [[Ireland]]
|-
| 2007–2008
|[[2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
| 2007–2008
|[[Berlitz Japan 2007–2008 Strike|2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080506zg.html|title=The Japan Times – News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More|work=The Japan Times}}</ref>
| [[Aoyama, Tokyo]]
| [[Japan]]
|-
| 2008
|[[2008 British teacher's strike]]
| nationwide
| [[England]]
|-
| 2008
|[[2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike]]
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 2008
|[[Viva (bus rapid transit)#2008 driver strike|2008 VIVA bus operators strike]]
| nationwide
| Canada
|-
| 2008
|[[2008 Boeing machinists' strike]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2008212140_boeing29.html|title=Simmering Boeing strike scorching both sides|work=The Seattle Times}}</ref>
| [[Seattle, Washington]]
| United States
|-
| 2008–2009
|[[2008–2009 York University strike]]
| [[York, Toronto|York, Ontario]]
| Canada
|-
| 2008–2009
|[[Istanbul metalworkers' strike of 2008–2009]]
| [[Istanbul]]
| [[Turkey]]
|-
| 2009
|[[2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes]]
| [[North Killingholme]], [[Lincolnshire]]
| England
|-
| 2009
|[[Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot]]
| [[Tonghua]], [[Jilin]]
| China
|-
| 2009
|[[2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/654695 | work=The Star | location=Toronto | title=Keep your trash, citizens told | first1=Vanessa | last1=Lu | first2=Donovan | last2=Vincent | date=22 June 2009 | access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 2009
|[[2009 Leeds refuse workers strike]]
|[[City of Leeds]] [[West Yorkshire]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 2009
|[[2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes|2009 UK postal strikes]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|}

====2010s====
[[File:-RedForEd (27856917218).jpg|thumb|240px|[[2018 Arizona teachers' strike|Arizona teachers' strike]], 26 April 2018]]
[[File:Vaga 21 febrer 2019 10.jpg|thumb|240px|General strike in [[Catalonia]], 21 February 2019]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
| 2010
|[[2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike]]
| [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]
| [[Puerto Rico]]
|-
|2010
|[[2010 Chinese autoworkers strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Alicea|first=Julio|date=June 10, 2011|title=Chinese autoworkers strike to demand higher wages from Honda, 2010|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/chinese-autoworkers-strike-demand-higher-wages-honda-2010|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|[[Foshan]] and [[Zhongshan]]
|[[China]]
|-
|2010
|[[2010 Chinese labour unrest]]
|nationwide
|[[China]]
|-
|2010
|[[2010 Cambodian garment workers strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Alicea|first=Julio|date=November 28, 2010|title=Cambodian garment workers organize an industry strike for higher monthly wages, 2010|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/cambodian-garment-workers-organize-industry-strike-higher-monthly-wages-2010|access-date=August 10, 2021|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|[[Phnom Penh|Phnom Phen]]
|[[Cambodia]]
|-
| 2010
| [[Scottish football referee strike|2010 Scottish football referee strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Scotland]]
|-
| 2010
|[[2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Spain]]
|-
| 2010
|[[2010 Major League Soccer lockout/strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|2010
|[[2010 Georgia prison strike]]
| [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
| United States
|-
| 2010–2011
|[[2010–2011 Hanjin Heavy Industries strike]]
| nationwide
| [[South Korea]] and the [[Philippines]]
|-
| 2011
|[[2011 Shanghai Truckers strike]]
| [[Shanghai]]
| China
|-
| 2011
|[[2011 NBA lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States and [[Canada]]
|-
| 2011
|[[2011 NFL lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|2011
|[[Zhanaozen massacre]]
|[[Mangystau Region]]
|[[Kazakhstan]]
|-
|2011
|[[2011 Israeli doctors' strike]]
|nationwide
|[[Israel]]
|-
| 2012
|[[2012 NFL referee lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 2012–13
|[[2012–13 NHL lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States and [[Canada]]
|-
| 2012
|[[2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike]]
| [[Los Angeles]] and [[Long Beach, California]]
| United States
|-
| 2013
|[[2013 Southern Weekly incident|2013 ''Southern Weekly'' incident]]
| Guangzhou, Guangdong
| China
|-
| 2013
|[[2013 Hong Kong dock strike]]
| citywide
| [[Hong Kong]]
|-
| 2013
|[[2013 Colombian miners strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bunting|first=Ashleigh|date=December 22, 2013|title=Colombian miners go on 53-day strike for better wages and working conditions, 2013|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/colombian-miners-go-53-day-strike-better-wages-and-working-conditions-2013|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
| Northern Colombia
| [[Colombia]]
|-
| 2014
|[[Chinese Golf Factory Workers Strike for Essential Rights]]
| [[Shenzhen]]
| China
|-
| 2014
|[[Tacoma nurses strike 2014]]
| [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]] and [[Lakewood, Washington]]
| United States
|-
| 2014
|[[2014 South African platinum strike]]
| nationwide
| [[South Africa]]
|-
| 2015
|[[2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/oil/bargaining/welcome-to-the-oil-strike-newsletter|title=Welcome to The Oil Strike Newsletter|publisher=United Steelworkers|access-date=2015-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120070016/https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/oil/bargaining/welcome-to-the-oil-strike-newsletter|archive-date=2018-01-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| [[California]], [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], [[Ohio]], [[Texas]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| United States
|-
| 2015
|[[2015 Kohler Strike]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Kohler workers reject offer, OK first union strike at company since 1983|url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/kohler-workers-appear-to-reject-offer-setting-up-first-union-strike-since-1983-b99616441z1-349915121.html|access-date=16 November 2015|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=November 15, 2015}}</ref>
| [[Kohler, Wisconsin]]
| United States
|-
| 2016
|2016 [[Verizon strike of 2016|Verizon workers' strike]]<ref>40,000 Verizon Workers Go On Strike url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/verizon-strike_us_570df081e4b03d8b7b9ed710</ref>
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2016–2017
|[[2016–2017 video game voice actor strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/sag-aftra-videogame-strike-rally-electronic-arts-1201898825/|title=More Than 100 SAG-AFTRA Videogame Strike Supporters Rally at Electronic Arts|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=2016-10-24|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-25}}</ref>
| [[Los Angeles, California]]
| United States
|-
| 2017
|[[2017 Philippine jeepney drivers' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Philippines]]
|-
| 2018–2019
|[[2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States|2018–2019 teachers' strikes in the United States]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 2018
|[[2018 York University strike]]: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant, and Contract Faculty Strike
| [[York, Toronto|York, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
|2018
|[[2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike]]
|[[Taylorsville, Mississippi]]
|United States
|-
|2018
|[[2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike]]
|[[DeKalb County, Georgia|DeKalb County]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]
|United States
|-
| 2018
|[[2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike|Brazil truck drivers' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Brazil]]
|-
| 2018
|[[2018 Marriott Hotels strike|Marriott Hotels strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/26/marriott-hotel-workers-strike-hits-eight-us-cities|title='One job should be enough': Marriott hotel workers' strike hits eight US cities|last=Philip|first=Drew|date=October 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=November 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/travel/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-strike-against-marriott-hotels.html|title=What You Need to Know About the Strike Against Marriott Hotels|last=Schwartz|first=Karen|date=October 31, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 3, 2018}}</ref>
| [[Bethesda, Maryland]]
| United States
|-
| 2018
| [[Jasic incident]]
| [[Shenzhen]], [[Guangdong]]
| [[China]]
|-
| 2018–2019
|[[2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 2018
|[[2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike]]
| [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]]
| United States
|-
| 2018
|[[2018 Atlanta sanitation strike]]
| [[Atlanta]]
| United States
|-
| 2018–present
|[[School strike for climate]]
| worldwide
| global
|-
| 2018
|[[2018–2020 UK higher education strikes]]
| nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike]]
| [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]], [[California]]
| United States
|-
| 2019
|[[Wright State University 2019 faculty strike]]
| [[Dayton, Ohio]]
| United States
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 Portuguese fuel-tanker drivers' strike]]
| nationwide
| [[Portugal]]
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 Stop & Shop strike]]
| [[Massachusetts]], [[Rhode Island]] and [[Connecticut]]
| United States
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 India doctors' strike]]
| [[West Bengal]]
| [[India]]
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 Alaska ferry workers strike]]
| [[Alaska]]
| United States
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 AT&T strike]]
| [[Southern United States]]
| United States
|-
| 2019–2020
|[[2019–2020 French pension reform strike]]
| nationwide
| [[France]]
|}

====2020s====
{{See also|Timeline of strikes in 2021|Timeline of strikes in 2022|Timeline of strikes in 2023|Timeline of strikes in 2024}}
[[File:Warrior Met Coal protesters.jpg|thumb|Protestors during the [[2021 Warrior Met Coal strike]]]]
[[File:GEO-ResStaff-MDining-March.jpg|thumb|[[2020 Michigan graduate students strike]], 11 September]]
[[File:Manifestation contre la réforme des retraites au Mans, le 15 mars 2023 6.jpg|thumb|[[2023 French pension reform strikes]], 15 March]]
[[File:WGA Strike 6.21.2023 017 (52992518178).jpg|thumb|[[2023 Writers Guild of America strike]], 21 June]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date
! Strike
! Place
! Country
|-
| 2020
|[[2020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strike]]
| [[Santa Cruz, California]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020
| 2020 New Orleans sanitation strike
| [[New Orleans]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020
|[[2020 Bath shipbuilders strike]]
| [[Bath, Maine]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020
|[[Strike for Black Lives (coalition protest)|Strike for Black Lives]]
| Nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020
|[[2020 Port of Montreal strike]]
| [[Montreal]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 2020
|[[2020 Michigan graduate students strike]]
| [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020
|[[2020 University of Illinois Hospital strikes]]
| [[Chicago]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2020–2021
|[[2020–2021 Alabama aluminum plant strike]]
| [[Muscle Shoals, Alabama]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Hunts Point Produce Market strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 French labor protests]]
| Nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike]]
| [[St. Paul Park, Minnesota]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Go North West strike]]
| [[Manchester]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 St. Charles Bend strike]]
| [[Bend, Oregon]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Saint Vincent Hospital strike]]
| [[Worcester, Massachusetts]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021–2022
|[[2021–2022 Columbia University strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Allegheny Technologies strike]]
| Northern United States
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 New York University strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Levin|first=Annie|date=June 2, 2021|title=How NYU's Grad Student Union Went on Strike—and Won|work=The Progressive|url=https://progressive.org/latest/nyu-grad-student-union-strike-won-levin-210602/|access-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=March 19, 2021|title=NYU GRADUATE WORKERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE VOTE|url=https://makingabetternyu.org/nyu-graduate-workers-announce-strike-vote/|access-date=2021-08-20|publisher=GSOC-UAW Local 2110|language=en-US}}</ref>
| [[New York City]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021–2023
|[[2021–2023 Warrior Met Coal strike]]
| [[Alabama]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Minas Gerais prostitute strike]]
| [[Minas Gerais]]
| [[Brazil]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Virginia Volvo Trucks strike]]
| [[Dublin, Virginia]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Oregon Tech strike]]
| [[Oregon]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Cook County nurse strike|2021 Cook County nurses strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 24, 2021|title=Cook County Nurses Go On Strike Over Staffing Issues|publisher=[[WBBM-TV]]|url=https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/06/24/cook-county-nurses-strike-thursday/|access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=June 24, 2021|title=Cook County Nurses Strike for 1 Day Over Staffing Issues|publisher=[[WMAQ-TV]]|url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cook-county-nurses-strike-for-1-day-over-staffing-issues/2539875/|access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref>
| [[Cook County, Illinois]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Frito-Lay strike]]
| [[Topeka, Kansas]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Nigerian doctors strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[Nigeria]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Nabisco strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Heaven Hill strike]]
| [[Bardstown, Kentucky]]
| United States
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Washington state carpenters strike]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fowler|first=Lilly|date=September 16, 2021|title=Thousands of carpenters in Washington state on strike|publisher=[[KNKX]]|url=https://www.knkx.org/2021-09-16/thousands-of-carpenters-in-washington-state-on-strike|access-date=September 23, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Leon|first=Luis|date=September 15, 2021|title=After Voting Down Four Tentative Agreements, Washington Carpenters Strike|work=Labor Notes|url=https://labornotes.org/2021/09/after-voting-down-four-tentative-agreements-washington-carpenters-strike|access-date=September 23, 2021}}</ref>
| [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Mercy Hospital strike]]
| [[Buffalo, New York]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Kellogg's strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 John Deere strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2021
|[[2021 Kaiser Permanente strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2021–2022 UPM Paperworkers' strike|2022 UPM Paperworkers' strike]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 24, 2022 |title=UPDATE 1-Strike at UPM's Finnish mills extended to April |publisher=[[Reuters]] |type=Digital |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/upm-kymmene-oyj-strike/update-1-strike-at-upms-finnish-mills-extended-to-april-idUSL1N2UZ1C5 |access-date=April 8, 2022}}</ref>
| Nationwide
| [[Finland]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2020–2022 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest#Minneapolis teachers' strike, March 8 to 29|2022 Minneapolis teacher's strike]]
| [[Minneapolis]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2022 University of California academic workers' strike]]
| [[California]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2022 British barristers' industrial action]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2022 BT Group strikes]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022
|[[2022 Scotland bin strikes]]
| [[Scotland]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022–2024
|[[2022–2024 United Kingdom railway strikes]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022–present
|[[United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes (2022–present)]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022–2023
|[[2022–2023 National Health Service strikes]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022–2023
|[[2022–2023 United Kingdom postal workers strikes]]
| Nationwide
| [[United Kingdom]]
|-
| 2022–2023
|[[2022–2023 HarperCollins strike]]
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 transport strike in the Philippines]]
| Nationwide
| [[Philippines]]
|-
| 2023
| [[University of Prince Edward Island]] faculty strike
| Canada
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 French pension reform strikes]]
| Nationwide
| [[France]]
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 German public transport strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[Germany]]
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 Temple University strike]]
| [[Philadelphia]]
| United States
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 Rutgers University strike]]
| [[New Jersey]]
| [[United States]]
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 Canadian federal worker strike]]
| Nationwide
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]
| United States
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 Romanian teachers' strike]]
| Nationwide
| Romania
|-
| 2023
|2023 Manitoba Public Insurance Strike
| Manitoba
| Canada
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 SAG-AFTRA strike]]
| Hollywood
| United States
|-
| 2023
|[[2023 United Auto Workers strike]]
| Nationwide
| United States
|-
|2024
|[[2024 Boeing machinists' strike]]
|Seattle
|United States
|-
|2024
|[[2024 United States port strike]]
|East and Gulf Coast
|United States
|-
| 2024
|[[2024 Canada Post strike]]
| Nationwide
| Canada
|-
| 2025
|[[2025 New York corrections officers' strike]]
| [[New York (state)|New York]]
| United States
|-
| 2025
|[[2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike]]
|Worldwide
|Canada
|-
| 2025
| [[2025 Boeing machinists' strike]]
| [[St. Louis Metropolitan Area]], [[Missouri]]/[[Illinois]]
| United States
|-
| 2025
| [[2025 Alberta teachers' strike]]
| [[Alberta]]
| Canada
|}

==Chronological list of general strikes==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date
! Name
! Place
!Country
!
|-
| 1820
|[[Radical War]]
| [[Central Belt]], [[Scotland]]
|{{Flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
|Influenced by [[Radicalism (historical)|Radical]] demands for reform, especially among Scottish weavers
|-
| 1835
|[[1835 Philadelphia general strike|Philadelphia general strike of 1835]]
| [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
|{{Flag|United States|1822}}
| Successful strike for a ten-hour work day and better wages
|-
| 1842
| [[1842 General Strike|General Strike of 1842]]
|[[England and Wales]]
|{{Flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
|[[Chartism|Chartist]] general strike against low wages originating from [[Coal mining in the United Kingdom|coal miners]] in [[Staffordshire]] before spreading to multiple industries in the [[Midlands]] as well as coal mines across the country. 
|-
|1855
|[[1855 Catalan general strike]]
|[[Catalonia]]
|{{flagicon image|Flag of Spain (1785–1873, 1875–1931).svg}} [[History of Spain (1808–1874)|Spain]]
|-
|1862–1865
|[[Black Reconstruction in America#General strike of slaves|General strike of slaves]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Confederate States of America|1861c}}
|[[Slavery in the United States|Slaves]] in the [[Southern United States]] stopped work and attempted to cross the frontlines of the [[American Civil War]] into Union territory, in what [[W.E.B. Du Bois]] held to be a crucial turning point in the war.<ref name="Black Perspectives">{{cite web |url=https://www.aaihs.org/when-slaves-go-on-strike/ |title=When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later |last=Mount |first=Guy Emerson |date=28 December 2015 |website=Black Perspectives |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=31 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531123016/https://www.aaihs.org/when-slaves-go-on-strike/ |url-status=live}}</ref> 
|-
| 1877
|[[Great Railroad Strike of 1877]]
|[[Great Railroad Strike of 1877#The strike|West Virginia]], [[Baltimore railroad strike of 1877|Maryland]], [[Great Railroad Strike of 1877#New York|New York]], [[Great Railroad Strike of 1877#Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Chicago railroad strike of 1877|Illinois]], [[1877 St. Louis general strike|Missouri]]
|{{Flag|United States|1877}}
|Strike by rail workers in a number of different states for wage increases; ended after 52 days with a suppression by the [[United States National Guard|National Guard]]  and local militias
|-
| 1886
| [[Walloon jacquerie of 1886]]
| [[Wallonia]]
|{{Flag|Belgium}}
|
|-
| 1890
|[[1890 Tarapacá general strike|Tarapacá general strike of 1890]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mhn.gob.cl/galeria/radicalizacion-del-movimiento-obrero-en-las-oficinas-salitreras|title=Radicalización del movimiento obrero en las oficinas salitreras|work=[[Palacio de la Real Audiencia de Santiago#Chilean National History Museum|Chilean National History Museum]]|access-date=August 18, 2025|language=es}}</ref>
| [[Iquique]]
|{{Flag|Chile}}
| Unsuccessful strike by day laborers, sailors, and [[Sodium nitrate|saltpeter]] workers for better wages.
|-
| 1892
| [[1892 New Orleans general strike|New Orleans general strike of 1892]]
| [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]]
|{{Flag|United States|1891}}
|Successful strike for a 10-hour day and [[Overtime|overtime pay]]; notable for the participation of both white and black strikers 
|-
| 1893
| [[Belgian general strike of 1893]]
| [[Mons, Belgium|Mons]]
|{{Flag|Belgium}}
|Strike by the [[Belgian Labour Party]] to pressure Prime Minister [[Auguste Beernaert]]'s [[Catholic Party (Belgium)|Catholic Party]] government to introduce [[universal male suffrage]]
|-
|1901
|[[1901 Ybor City strike]]s<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Valenzuela|first1=Ricardo R. Gonzales|last2=Tampa Historical Team|title=1901 Workers' Strike – Tampa's First General Strike|url=https://tampahistorical.org/items/show/144|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Tampa Historical|language=en}}</ref>
|[[Ybor City]], [[Tampa, Florida]]
|United States
|-
|1902
|[[Geneva general strike of 1902]]
|[[Geneva]]
|{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|-
|1904
|[[1904 Italian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|[[Italy]]
|-
|1905
|[[1905 Russian Revolution]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Russian Empire}}
|General strike by workers in the industrial centres of the Russian Empire; suppressed by the [[Imperial Russian Army]].
|-
|1907
|[[Geneva general strike of 1907]]
|[[Geneva]]
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|
|-
|1907
|[[New Orleans Dock Workers and Unionization#The 1907 General Levee Strike|New Orleans General Levee Strike of 1907]]
|[[New Orleans]]
|{{flag|United States|1907}}
|
|-
|1909
|[[Tragic Week (Spain)#General strike|Tragic Week]]
|[[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]]
|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Spain_(1785–1873,_1875–1931).svg}} [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]]
|
|-
| 1909
| [[Swedish General Strike]]
| Nationwide
| {{Flag|Sweden}}
|Unsuccessful general strike called by the [[Swedish Trade Union Confederation]]
|-
| 1910
|[[Philadelphia general strike (1910)|Philadelphia general strike of 1910]]
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|{{Flag|United States|1908}}
|[[Amalgamated Transit Union]] strike of [[Philadelphia Transportation Company]] trolley workers which expanded into a citywide [[American Federation of Labor]] general strike, eventually leading to wage increases
|-
| 1912
| [[1912 Brisbane general strike|Brisbane general strike of 1912]]
| [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]]
| {{Flag|Australia}}
|Caused when [[Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees' Association|Australian Tramway Employees Union]] members were dismissed for wearing union badges; ended with [[Queensland Police Service]] attacks on labor marchers in [[King George Square|Market Square]] leading to a public outcry and the strengthening of the [[Australian labour movement]]
|-
|1912
|[[Zürich general strike of 1912]]
|[[Zürich]]
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|
|-
|1917
|[[1917 Australian general strike|Australian general strike of 1917]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Australia|1917}}
|
|-
|1917
|[[1917 Spanish general strike|Spanish general strike of 1917]]
|Nationwide
|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Spain_(1785–1873,_1875–1931).svg}} [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]]
|
|-
| 1917
| [[1917–1919 Brazil strike movement]]
| [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[São Paulo]] and [[Rio Grande do Sul]]
| {{Flag|Brazil}}
|Series of general strikes leading to an attempted [[Anarchism in Brazil|anarchist]] uprising against the [[First Brazilian Republic]]. 
|-
|1917
|[[1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike]]
|[[Minneapolis–Saint Paul]]
|{{Flag|United States|1912}}
|Sympathetic general strike held on December 13 in support of streetcar workers who had been engaged in a labor dispute for the past several weeks. Involved about 10,000 people.
|-
|1918
|[[Conscription Crisis of 1918#Strikes and other actions in Ireland|Irish General Strike against Conscription]]
|[[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}
|
|-
|1918
|[[1918 Swiss general strike|Swiss general strike of 1918]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|
|-
| 1918
| [[Vancouver general strike]]
| [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]]
|{{Flag|Canada|1868}}
|General strike caused by the arrest of [[Albert Goodwin|Albert "Ginger" Goodwin]], discontent over high living costs and low wages during [[World War I]], and the [[October Revolution]]; ended with police attacks on union offices 
|-
|1918
|[[General strike of 14 October 1918]]
|[[Czechoslovakia]]
|{{Flag|Austria-Hungary}}
|
|-
|1919
|[[La Canadenca strike]]
|[[Catalonia]]
|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Spain_(1785–1873,_1875–1931).svg}} [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]]
|
|-
|1919
|[[1919 Basel and Zürich general strike|Basel and Zürich general strike of 1919]]
|[[Basel]] and [[Zürich]]
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|
|-
| 1919
| [[Seattle General Strike]]
| [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|{{Flag|United States|1912}}
|[[Industrial Workers of the World]] strike caused when the [[Emergency Fleet Corporation]] denied [[Shipbuilding|shipbuilders]]' demands for higher wages and intended to start a socialist revolution; contributed to the [[First Red Scare]]
|-
| 1919
| [[Winnipeg general strike]]
| [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]]
|{{Flag|Canada|1868}}
|General strike ending with repression by the [[North-West Mounted Police]] but leading to the growth of the [[Socialism in Canada|Canadian democratic socialist]] and [[Labour movement|labor movements]].
|-
|1920
|[[Kapp Putsch#Occupation of Berlin|Berlin general strike]]
|[[Berlin]]
|{{Flag|Weimar Republic|name=Germany}}
|General strike encouraged by the government to resist an attempted overthrow of the [[Weimar Republic]]
|-
|1920
|[[Ruhr uprising]]
|[[Ruhr]]
|{{Flag|Weimar Republic|name=Germany}}
|General strike in support of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic]] government before expanding into a mass labor uprising to establish a "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]"; suppressed by the [[Freikorps]] and the [[Reichswehr]]
|-
|1920
|[[1920 Romanian general strike|Romanian general strike of 1920]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Kingdom of Romania|name=Romania}}
|
|-
|1922
| [[1922 Italian general strike|Italian general strike of 1922]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}}
|Unsuccessful general strike intended to prevent a [[March on Rome|seizure of power]] by [[Benito Mussolini]]'s [[National Fascist Party]]
|-
| 1922
|[[1922 Guayaquil general strike|Guayaquil general strike]]
| [[Guayaquil]]
| [[Ecuador]]
|-
| 1926
| [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|United Kingdom general strike of 1926]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|10-day general strike by the [[General Council of the Trades Union Congress]] to prevent wage reductions and worsened conditions for [[Coal mining in the United Kingdom|coal miners]]; ended without concessions or violence. 
|-
| 1926
| [[1926 Sierra Leone railway strike|Sierra Leone railway strike of 1926]]
| Nationwide
| {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Sierra_Leone_(1916–1961).svg}} [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate|Sierra Leone]]
|
|-
|1927
|[[1927 Austrian General Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austrian Social Democrats general strike to prevent civil war, 1927 {{!}} Global Nonviolent Action Database |url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/austrian-social-democrats-general-strike-prevent-civil-war-1927 |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu}}</ref>
|Vienna
|{{flag|Austria}}
|
|-
|1932
|[[1932 Geneva general strike|Geneva general strike of 1932]]
|[[Geneva]]
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|
|-
|1933
|[[1933 Cuban general strike]]
|Nationwide, initially in [[Havana]]
|{{Flag|Cuba}}
|The strike would originally begin as a strike for bus drivers in Havana and would later grow to other sectors and spread throughout the country. The strike led to the resignation of President [[Gerardo Machado]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last1=Lakey|first1=George|last2=Ensign|first2=Olivia|title=Cubans general strike to overthrow president, 1933|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/cubans-general-strike-overthrow-president-1933|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|-
|1933
|[[1933 Ecuadorian general strike]]<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Miller-Walfish|first=Summer|date=December 22, 2010|title=Ecuadorians general strike against President Mera, 1933|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/ecuadorians-general-strike-against-president-mera-1933|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|[[Quito]], [[Riobamba]]
|{{Flag|Ecuador|1900}}
|
|-
|1933
|[[1933 French general strike|French general strike of 1933]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|
|-
|1934
|[[Portuguese general strike of 1934]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}}
|
|-
| 1934
| [[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|West Coast waterfront strike of 1934]]
| [[California]], [[Oregon]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|{{Flag|United States|1912}}
|83-day general strike in support of the [[International Longshoremen's Association]] during the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]]; the success of the strike contributed to the growth of [[industrial unionism]] under the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]].
|-
|1934
|[[Minneapolis general strike of 1934]]
|[[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]
|{{Flag|United States|1912}}
|
|-
|1934
|[[Auto-Lite strike]]
|[[Toledo, Ohio]]
|{{Flag|United States|1912}}
|
|-
|1936
|[[French general strike of 1936]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|
|-
|1936
|[[Spanish Revolution of 1936]]
|Nationwide
|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Spain_(1931–1939).svg}} [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]]
|
|-
| 1936
|[[1936 Syrian general strike]]
| Nationwide
|{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Syria_(1930–1958,_1961–1963).svg}} [[First Syrian Republic|Syria]]
|-
| 1936
| [[Palestinian general strike]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Mandatory Palestine}}
|General strike coordinated by the [[Arab Higher Committee]] against [[Aliyah|Jewish settlement in Palestine]]; eventually led to the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]].
|-
|1938
|[[French general strike of 1938]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}}
|
|-
|1941
|[[February strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Netherlands in World War II|Netherlands]]
|
|-
| 1942
| [[1942 Luxembourgish general strike|Luxembourgish general strike of 1942]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Luxembourg}}
|Campaign of [[Nonviolent resistance|passive resistance]] against the [[German occupation of Luxembourg during World War II|Nazi occupation]] during [[World War II]]. 
|-
| 1945
| [[1945 Nigerian general strike|Nigerian general strike of 1945]]
| Nationwide
| {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Nigeria_(1914–1952).svg}} [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]]
|
|-
|1946
|[[Royal Indian Navy mutiny]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|British Raj|name=India}}
|
|-
| 1946
| [[1946 Oakland general strike|Oakland general strike of 1946]]
| [[Oakland, California]]
| {{Flag|United States|1912}}
|Part of the [[Strike wave of 1945–1946|1945-46 strike wave in the United States]] during the [[Demobilization of United States armed forces after World War II|U.S. demobilization after World War II]] and the abolition of [[National War Labor Board (1942–1945)|National War Labor Board]] restrictions, which contributed to the passage of the [[Taft–Hartley Act]] restricting union activities and strike actions. 
|-
|1950
|[[1950 Austrian general strikes|Austrian general strikes of 1950]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Austria}}
|
|-
| 1950
| [[Royal question#General strike and abdication|Belgian general strike of 1950]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Belgium}}
|Originated over opposition to King [[Leopold III of Belgium]] being returned to throne after his refusal to leave Belgium with the [[Belgian government in exile|government-in-exile]] during the [[German occupation of Belgium during World War II|Nazi occupation]]; ended with his agreement to abdicate and allow his son [[Baudouin of Belgium|Baudouin]] to take the throne
|-
| 1950
| [[1950 Nairobi general strike|Nairobi general strike of 1950]]
| [[Nairobi]]
| {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Kenya_(1921–1963).svg}} [[Kenya Colony|Kenya]]
| 
|-
| 1950
| [[Positive Action campaign]]
| Nationwide
| {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Gold_Coast_(1877–1957).svg}} [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]]
|
|-
| 1952
| [[Casablanca Uprisings of 1952]]
| [[Casablanca]]
| {{flagicon image|Merchant_flag_of_French_Morocco.svg}} [[French protectorate in Morocco|Morocco]]
| 
|-
|1953
|[[1953 Ceylonese Hartal|Ceylonese Hartal of 1953]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|British Ceylon|name=Ceylon}}
|
|-
| 1953
| [[Uprising of 1953 in East Germany|Uprising of 1953]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|East Germany|1949}}
|Originated as strike by [[East Berlin]] construction workers against [[Sovietization]] [[Production quota|work quotas]] before expanding to a broad revolt against the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-sponsored [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]]'s rule; repressed by the [[Soviet Ground Forces|Soviet Army]] and the [[Kasernierte Volkspolizei]]
|-
|1954
|[[General strike of 1954]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Honduras}}
|
|-
| 1956
| [[Finnish general strike of 1956]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Finland}}
|Successful [[Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions]] general strike for higher wages
|-
| 1960–61
| [[Belgian general strike of 1960–61]]
| [[Wallonia]]
| {{Flag|Belgium}}
|[[General Labour Federation of Belgium]] general strike against Prime Minister [[Gaston Eyskens]]'s austerity policies, especially the [[Unitary Law]]; contributed to the growth of the [[Walloon Movement]]
|-
|1966
|[[1966 Burkina Faso general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Burkina Faso}}
|
|-
| 1968
| [[May 1968 in France|French general strike of May 1968]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|France}}
|[[Student protest]]s which escalated into a nationwide general strike which halted the [[Economy of France|French economy]] and continued with [[Wildcat strike action|wildcat strikes]] after the [[Grenelle agreements]] granted higher wages, leading to fears of a revolution against [[Charles de Gaulle]]; ended with [[Gaullism|Gaullist]] counter-demonstrations and a vote of confidence from the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]].
|-
|1971-72
|[[1971–72 Namibian contract workers strike|Namibian contract workers general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Namibia}}
|A general strike by workers under the contract labor system of what was then known as [[South West Africa]] (now [[Namibia]]) under the control of apartheid South Africa. The goal was to end the contract labor system due to slave like conditions and promote Namibian independence. It led to [[South West African Native Labour Association|SWANLA]] being abolished & replaced with a less punitive but still repressive contract labor system. It also fueled the [[South African Border War|war for independence]].
|-
|1972
|[[1972 Québec general strike|Québec general strike of 1972]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libcom.org/history/articles/quebec-general-strike-1972|title=1972: The Quebec general strike|access-date=1 February 2017|archive-date=9 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409141131/https://libcom.org/history/articles/quebec-general-strike-1972|url-status=live}}</ref>
|[[Quebec|Québec]]
|{{flag|Canada}}
|
|-
| 1973
| [[Uruguay general strike of 1973]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Uruguay}}
|Unsuccessful general strike against the [[1973 Uruguayan coup d'état]], leading the [[Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay|civic-military dictatorship]] to ban trade unions. 
|-
| 1974
| [[Ulster Workers' Council strike]]
| [[Northern Ireland]]
|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|Successful [[Ulster loyalism|Ulster loyalist]] general strike against the [[Sunningdale Agreement]] between [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], which would have attempted to resolve the [[The Troubles|Northern Ireland conflict]] by establishing a power-sharing [[Northern Ireland Executive]] and revived [[Council of Ireland]]
|-
|1975
|[[1975 Icelandic women's strike|Icelandic women's strike of 1975]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|
|-
|1976
|[[1976 Canadian general strike|Canadian general strike of 1976]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The largest labour protest in Canadian history |url=https://canadianlabour.ca/the-largest-labour-protest-in-canadian-history/ |publisher=Canadian Labour Congress |date=14 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Léger |first1=Raymond |title=October 14, 1976 – the Saint John General Strike |url=http://www.wfhathewaylabourexhibitcentre.ca/labour-history/october-14-1976-the-saint-john-general-strike/ |publisher=Frank & Ella Hatheway Labour Exhibit Centre |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409141151/http://www.wfhathewaylabourexhibitcentre.ca/labour-history/october-14-1976-the-saint-john-general-strike/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Canada}}
|
|-
|1976
|[[March 24 strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|People's Republic of the Congo}}
|
|-
|1978
|[[Iranian Revolution#Nationwide strikes (September–November)|Iranian Revolution]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}}
|
|-
|1979
|[[1979 New Zealand general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|New Zealand|name=New Zealand}}
|The Federation of Labour holds a 24-hour general strike held to protest the [[Third National Government of New Zealand|Third National Government]]'s intervention in the general drivers' [[Industrial award|award]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Derby |first=Mark |date=11 March 2010 |title=Strikes and labour disputes – The decline of the arbitration system |url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/strikes-and-labour-disputes/page-8 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 September 1979 |title=Factories go out but offices and shops go on |pages=1 |work=[[The Press]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1979/09/21/1}}</ref>
|-
|1984
|[[Uruguayan general strikes of 1984]]
|Nationwide
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay|Uruguay]]
|Successfully ended the Uruguayan dictatorships by forcing free elections to occur under the threat of continued rolling 24 hour general strikes if not allowed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1984: Uruguay General Strike {{!}} libcom.org |url=https://libcom.org/article/1984-uruguay-general-strike |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=libcom.org |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 1988
| [[Spanish general strike of 1988]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Spain}}
|[[Workers' Commissions]] and [[Unión General de Trabajadores]] strike against the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]]'s policies under Prime Minister [[Felipe González]]
|-
|1989
|[[Velvet Revolution#27 November|Velvet Revolution]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}}
|-
|1990
|[[1990 Moroccan general strike]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Moroccans general strike for higher wages, 1990|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/moroccans-general-strike-higher-wages-1990|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Morocco}}
|
|-
| 1992
| [[April 1992 general strike in Nepal]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Kingdom of Nepal|name=Nepal}}
|
|-
|1995
|[[1995 strikes in France|French general strikes of 1995]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|France}}
|
|-
|1998
|[[1998 Danish general strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Slusher|first=Margaret|date=March 21, 2013|title=Danish workers conduct general strike for gains in wages, jobs, and vacation days, 1998|url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/danish-workers-general-strike-six-weeks-paid-vacation-1998-0|access-date=September 23, 2021|website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
|[[Copenhagen]]
|{{Flag|Denmark}}
|
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 Puerto Rican general strike]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|Puerto Rico}})
|41-day general strike against the privatization of the [[Puerto Rico Telephone|Puerto Rico Telephone Company]], accompanied by some violence and sabotage. 
|-
|2000
|[[Cochabamba Water War]]
|[[Cochabamba]]
|{{flag|Bolivia}}
|
|-
| 2002–2003
| [[Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003]]
| Nationwide
| {{Flag|Venezuela}}
| General strike against President [[Hugo Chávez]] including a large contingent of [[PDVSA]] workers. 
|-
|2003
|[[Bolivian gas conflict#Escalation|Bolivian gas conflict]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Bolivia}}
|
|-
| 2006
| [[2006 Nepalese revolution|Nepalese Revolution]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Kingdom of Nepal|name=Nepal}}
|
|-
| 2007
| [[2007 Guinea general strike]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Guinea}}
|Successful general strike forcing President [[Lansana Conté]] to resign. 
|-
| 2007
| [[2007 South African public servants' strike]]
| Nationwide
| {{flag|South Africa}}
|
|-
| 2007
| [[2007 Swazi general strike]]
| Nationwide
| {{flag|Eswatini}}
|
|-
| 2008
| [[2008 Egyptian general strike]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|Egypt}}
|General strike including large contingent of textile workers during the [[2007–2008 world food price crisis]]
|-
|2009
| [[2009 French Caribbean general strikes]]
|[[Guadeloupe]]
|{{Flag|France}}
|
|-
| 2011
| [[2011 Oakland general strike]]
| [[Oakland, California]]
|{{Flag|United States}}
|Part of the [[Occupy Oakland]] demonstrations
|-
|2012
|[[2012 European general strike]]
|[[Cyprus]], [[Malta]], [[Portugal]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Greece]], [[Belgium]]
|{{flag|European Union}}
|
|-
| 2016
| [[Indian general strike of 2016]]
|Nationwide
| {{Flag|India}}
|24-hour general strike against Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]]'s economic policies
|-
|2017
|[[2017 Brazilian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Brazil}}
|General strike against President [[Michel Temer]]'s [[Brazil labor reform (2017)|labor reform policies]] during the [[2014 Brazilian economic crisis|Brazilian economic crisis]]. 
|-
|2017
| [[2017 Catalan general strike]]
| [[Catalonia]]
| {{Flag|Spain}}
|General strike in support of the [[Catalan independence movement]], accompanied by police repression by the Spanish government. 
|-
|2018
|[[2018 Jordanian protests|2018 Jordanian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Jordan}}
|Anti-austerity general strike 
|-
| 2018–2019
|[[2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Iran}}
|
|-
| 2018–present
| [[School strike for climate]]
| Global 
| Various
| International movement of students skipping classes to support [[renewable energy]] and [[climate change mitigation]]
|-
| 2019
|[[2019 Catalan general strike]]
| [[Catalonia]]
|{{flag|Spain}}
|
|-
|2019
|[[2019–2020 Hong Kong protests#Storming of the Legislative Council and escalation|2019 Hong Kong general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Hong Kong}}
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|2019
|[[2019 Indian General Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.workers.org/2019/01/40392/|title=All-India General Strike is largest in world history|first=Martha|last=Grevatt|date=14 January 2019|access-date=6 February 2022|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206220656/https://www.workers.org/2019/01/40392/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Nationwide
|{{flag|India}}
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|2019
|[[Sudanese Revolution]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Sudan}}
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|2020
|[[2020–2021 Belarusian protests]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Belarus}}
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|2020
|[[2020 United States essential workers general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|United States}}
|General strike involving [[essential worker]]s during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
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|2020
|[[Strike for Black Lives (coalition protest)|Strike for Black Lives]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|United States}}
|Mass walkout in support of the [[George Floyd protests]]
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|2020
|[[2020 Indian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|India}}
|Preceded the [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]]
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|2021
|[[2021 Greek general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Greece}}
|24-hour general strike against a bill in the [[Hellenic Parliament]] that would give employers more power in regards to their employees.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Konstantinidis|first=Alkis|date=June 10, 2021|title=Thousands of Greeks protest 'monstrous' labour reform bill|publisher=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greek-workers-strike-against-labour-reform-bill-2021-06-10/|access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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|2021
|[[2021–2022 Myanmar protests#Campaigns and strikes|2021 Myanmar strikes]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|Myanmar}}
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|2021
|[[Striketober]]
|Nationwide
|{{flag|United States}}
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|2022
|[[2022 Iranian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Iran}}
|3 day general strike in response to protestors killed by Iranian security forces.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wintour|first=Patrick |date=December 6, 2022|title=Iran: Mass strike starts as shopkeepers and lorry drivers across 40 cities participate in mass walkout|publisher=[[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]]|url=https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/iran-mass-strike-starts-as-shopkeepers-and-lorry-drivers-across-40-cities-participate-in-mass-walkout/|access-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|[[2022 Kazakh unrest]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
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|2024
|[[2024 Nigerian general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Nigeria}}
|General strike due to low minimum wage.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Egbejule |first=Eromo |date=2024-06-03 |title=Nigerian unions shut down national grid and airports as indefinite strike begins |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/nigeria-suffers-national-power-outage-as-labour-unions-shut-down-grid |access-date=2024-06-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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|2025
|[[2024–2025 Serbian anti-corruption protests]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Serbia}}
|General strike due to political corruption and the [[Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Serbia on the brink of a general strike? – DW – 01/21/2025 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-protests-may-lead-to-general-strike/a-71360278 |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref>
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|2025
|[[2025 Portuguese general strike]]
|Nationwide
|{{Flag|Portugal}}
|General strike against new labor package demanded by the [[Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024)|Democratic Alliance]] government.<ref>|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxwrvl1734o.amp</ref>
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Organized labour}}
* [[List of US strikes by size|List of US labor strikes by size]]
* [[List of miners' strikes]]
* [[List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes]]
* [[Streetcar strikes in the United States]]
* [[Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic]]
* [[Timeline of labor unions in the United States]]
* [[List of protests in the 21st century]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* ''Labor conflict in the United States'', an encyclopedia. Edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly – Garland Publishing New York & London 1990  ({{ISBN|0-8240-7968-X}})

==External links==
* [http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrike/ Chronology of general strikes]
* [https://www.lutins.org/labor.html List of labor events in U.S. history]
* [https://www.labourstart.org/ Recent strikes and other labour news]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110218162634/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/55951/strike-famous-worker-uprisings#index/0 Strike! Famous Worker Uprisings] – slideshow by ''[[Life magazine]]''
* [https://againstthecurrent.org/atc149/p3099/ The Long War at Staley]
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