Timeline of strikes in 1973
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In 1973, a number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred.
Background
[edit]A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor working conditions. Strikes can also occur to demonstrate solidarity with workers in other workplaces or pressure governments to change policies.
Timeline
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Continuing strikes from 1972
[edit]January
[edit]- 1973 Durban strikes, part of the Durban Moment in South Africa.
- 1973 St. Louis teachers' strike, strike by teachers in St. Louis, United States.[1][2][3]
- 1973 Shell USA strike[4][5]
February
[edit]- One-day Loyalist Association of Workers Day of Action in Northern Ireland.
- 1973 French air traffic controllers strike[6][7][8]
March
[edit]April
[edit]- 1973 ABC strike, strike by women script assistants at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[10][11]
- 1973 Hong Kong teachers' strike, led by the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union.[12][13]
- 1973 Japanese transit strike[14][15]
- 1973–76 LIP strikes, at the LIP in France.[16][17]
- 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike
May
[edit]- 1973 Broadmeadows Ford strike, strike at the Broadmeadows Assembly Plant in Australia.[18][19]
June
[edit]- 1973 Sydney Philosophy strike, strike by University of Sydney Department of Philosophy students in Australia demanding the introduction of a women's studies course.[20][21]
- 1973 Uruguayan general strike, strike against the 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état.
July
[edit]- 1973–74 Brookside strike, 13-month strike by coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.[22][23]
- 1973 Klamath Falls police strike, 13-day strike by police in Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States.[24][25]
August
[edit]- 1973 Artistic Woodwork strike, in Canada.[26][27]
- 1973 Canadian rail strike[28][29]
- 1973 Ford Germany strikes, de, wildcat strikes at Ford Germany.[30][31]
September
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]- Athens Polytechnic uprising
- 1973 New York City Ballet strike, 25-day strike by New York City Ballet dancers in the United States.[32]
December
[edit]List of lockouts in 1973
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "VANDALS DAMAGE ST. LOUIS SCHOOLS". The New York Times. 23 January 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Cortinovis, Irene E. (1974). "Documenting an Event with Manuscripts and Oral History: The St. Louis Teachers' Strike, 1973". The Oral History Review. 2: 59–63. doi:10.1093/ohr/2.1.59. JSTOR 3674695.
- ^ Williams, Sharleta (4 August 2014). "Black Teachers and St. Louis Public School Teacher Strikes of 1973 and 1979".
- ^ Weisberg, Berry (7 January 1973). "Our Lives Are at Stake: Workers Fight for Health and Safety (the Shell Strike of 1973)". IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Schumer, Fran (28 April 1973). "Union Calls Shell Boycott". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "1973 Une année charnière pour la navigation aérienne". Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France. 16 November 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Durant la grève des contrôleurs aériens civils "La chasse a décollé trente fois pour identifier des avions irréguliers" a révélé le général Grigault". Le Monde. 28 March 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19730321.2.128?end_date=31-12-1973&items_per_page=10&query=strike&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1973
- ^ "Air-India strike off". The Straits Times. 12 March 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Baker, Jeannine; Connors, Jane (2020). "'Glorified typists' in no-man's land: The ABC script assistants' strike of 1973". Women's History Review. 29 (5): 841–859. doi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1703539.
- ^ "ABC strike puts live programs off air". Canberra Times. 28 April 1973.
- ^ Lam, Oiwan (17 August 2021). "How did Chinese propaganda force Hong Kong's largest teachers union to disband?". Global Voices. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Duhalde, Marcelo (4 July 2019). "History of Hong Kong protests: riots, rallies and brollies". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Japanese Begin 3-Day Strike; Train Service in Cities Stops". The New York Times. 26 April 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "It's all over: Japan's worst transport strike". The Straits Times. 28 April 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Leprince, Chloé (11 June 2023). "Occupation, séquestration, auto-gestion : en 1973, la grève des Lip c'est d'abord "un boulot monumental"". FranceCulture. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Boulouque, Sylvain (28 July 2023). "Grèves, occupation, autogestion: l'histoire des Lip célébrée dans deux ouvrages". Slate. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Tracy, Constance Lever (2020). "A new Australian working class leadership: The case of Ford Broadmeadows". Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia. pp. 123–143. doi:10.4324/9781003115540-8. ISBN 978-1-003-11554-0.
- ^ "1973: Broadmeadows Ford workers' strike". LibCom. 10 September 2006. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Clark, Maddie (16 August 2021). "The strike that won a feminist philosophy department". Honi Soit. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/HUL/article/view/5336
- ^ Gethings, David W. (24 April 2013). "Harlan County, KY, coal miners win affiliation with UMWA union, United States, 1973-1974". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "13-Month Strike is Ended By Kentucky Mine Accord". The New York Times. 30 August 1974. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Widenor, Marcus (1991). "A Small City Police Strike: Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1973". Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector. 20 (3): 1. doi:10.2190/U74B-QWYV-L3PU-W9YW. S2CID 153991772.
- ^ Widenor, Marcus (21 July 2023). "When collective begging turned to collective bargaining". Northwest Labor Press. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Milligan, Ian (2010). ""The Force of All Our Numbers": New Leftists, Labour, and the 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike". Labour / Le Travail. 66: 37–71. JSTOR 20799033.
- ^ "On the Line: Exploring the Strikes of 1970s Ontario through the IRHR Library's Collection | Industrial Relations and Human Resources Library".
- ^ Nardi, Christopher (22 August 2024). "51 years ago, a railway strike led to the most 'explosive' alcohol-fuelled 'rampage' on Parliament Hill". National Post. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "56,000 RAIL WORKERS ON STRIKE IN CANADA". The New York Times. 25 August 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Special site: "Wild cat" strikes 1973".
- ^ Kleinheisterkamp González, Nicole (2022). ""Our Turks make the best German cars": Racism as a Tool to Break Workers' Power in the 1973 Ford Strikes". Antipode. 54 (3): 873–891. Bibcode:2022Antip..54..873K. doi:10.1111/anti.12811.
- ^ "Ballet Strike Ends". The New York Times. 9 December 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Ohio Protest Goes On". The New York Times. 6 December 1973. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "MOST TRUCKERS END 11-DAY STRIKE". The New York Times. 12 February 1974. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ Bisanz, Charles F. (1977). "The Anatomy of a Mass Public Protest Action: A Shutdown by Independent Truck Drivers". Human Organization. 36 (1): 62–66. doi:10.17730/humo.36.1.a174682x941tm117. JSTOR 44125241.