You will be asked to select your topic early in the semester – only two students may choose a specific topic for their report.

Work Stoppage/Strike Report Topics – Spring 2018

Here are recommended topics for your report. Begin your paper with a description of the strike – the industry involved; the strike issues; the series of events leading to, during and at the end of the strike. Conclude your report with a description of the impact or implications for the larger arena of organized labor and labor relations.

You will be asked to select your topic early in the semester – only two students may choose a specific topic for their report.

1886 May Day strike

1892 Homestead strike

1919 Steelworkers strike

1920 Miners’ strike (Matewan, West Virginia)

1934 Teamsters strike – Minneapolis

1970 General Motors strike

PATCO strike of 1981

1983/1989 AT&T telephone workers strikes

1989 Eastern airlines strike

1991-1998 Las Vegas Hotel/Culinary workers strike

1993 United Mine Workers strike

1997 UPS strike

2012 Walmart strikes

2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike

2015 U.S. Steelworkers (ATI)

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