A number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred in 1991.
Background
editA labor strike is a work stoppage, caused by the mass refusal of employees to work, usually in response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor working conditions. Strikes can also take place to demonstrate solidarity with workers in other workplaces or to pressure governments to change policies.
Timeline
editContinuing strikes from 1990
edit- 1990s Donbas miners' strikes
- 1990-93 Greyhound strike, by Greyhound Lines drivers.[1]
- First Intifada, including strikes, against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 1990–1992 movement in Madagascar
- 1990–1991 New York Daily News strike, 5-month strike by New York Daily News staff.[2]
- 1990–1991 Togo protests
January
edit- 1991 Manitoba nurses' strike, breaking the record for the longest nurses strike in Manitoba history.[3]
February
edit- 1991 Alliant Techsystems strike, by Alliant Techsystems workers for pay raises.[4]
- 1991 Romanian rail strike, 2-week strike by railway workers in Romania.[5][6]
March
edit- General strike in Mali, against the dictatorship of Moussa Traoré, resulting in the 1991 Malian coup d'état.[7]
- 1991 Soviet miners' strike[8][9]
April
edit- 1991 Belarusian strikes, anti-Soviet movement in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1991 CUNY strike, at the City University of New York.[10]
- 1991 Montana public sector strike, 6-day strike by public sector workers in Montana, United States.[11][12]
May
edit- 1991 Albanian general strike, led by the United Independent Albanian Trade Unions and the Democratic Party of Albania, part of the Fall of communism in Albania.[13]
June
edit- 1991 Cameroonian general strike[14]
- 1991 GM Baltimore strike, 26-day strike by workers at a General Motors facility in Baltimore, represented by the United Auto Workers.[15][16]
- 1991 Switzerland women's strike[17]
- 1991 United Nations cafeteria strike, by restaurant and cafteria workers at the Headquarters of the United Nations.[18]
July
editAugust
edit- 1991 Canadian postal strike, organised by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.[19]
September
edit- 1991 Frontier strike, over 6-years long strike by workers at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, represented by the Culinary Workers Union, one of the longest strikes in American history.[20]
- 1991 Public Service Alliance of Canada strike[21][22]
- 1991 Zaire unrest, including strikes, against the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko.
October
edit- 1991 Los Angeles nurses' strike[23]
- 1991 Lukens strike, by workers at the Lukens Steel Company in the United States, represented by the United Steelworkers.[24][25]
November
edit- 1991 Botswana manual workers' strike, 5-day strike by National Amalgamated Central, Local & Parastatal Manual Workers' Union members in Botswana, the second in the union's history and first since 1968.[26]
- 1991 Pennsylvania nurses' strike, organised by the Pennsylvania Nurses Association.[27]
- 1991 South African general strike, 2-day general strike by the African National Congress against apartheid.[28][29]
December
edit- 1991 Yale University strike, by graduate students at Yale University in the United States for recognition of Local 33–UNITE HERE.[30]
References
edit- ^ Weintraub, Richard M. (20 April 1993). "GREYHOUND, TRANSIT UNION SETTLE 3-YEAR-OLD STRIKE". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Finder, Alan (21 March 1991). "Daily News Strike Ends, and Maxwell Marches In to Take the Reins". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Successful strike for Manitoba nurses". Nursing Standard. 5 (24): 14. 1991. doi:10.7748/ns.5.24.14.s28. PMID 27524139.
- ^ "Strike Ends at Gulf War Shell Manufacturer". L.A. Times. 18 February 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "WORLD IN BRIEF: ROMANIA: Crippling 2-Week Rail Strike Ends". L.A. Times. 22 February 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Striking Romanian Workers Warned They Face Dismissal". The New York Times. 18 February 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Reddebrek, https://libcom.org/article/1991-mali-general-strike (2 February 2017). "1991: Mali General Strike". LibCom.
{{cite web}}: External link in|author-first=|url=(help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Siegelbaum, Lewis (29 June 2015). "Miners' Strike of 1991". Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Nadler, Gerald (7 March 1991). "Soviet coal miners strike spreads". UPI. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Student Strikes of 1991: Graduate Center Student Takeover · CUNY Digital History Archive".
- ^ Baum, Dan (1 May 1991). "Wage Increase Legislation Ends Montana State Workers' Strike". L.A. Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Johnson, Dirk (29 April 1991). "STRIKE PERMEATES LIFE IN MONTANA". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Lawrence, William (9 February 2011). "Albanian workers force shift toward democracy, 1991". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Cameroonians general strike for democratic elections, 1991 | Global Nonviolent Action Database".
- ^ "Workers Vote to End Strike at a G.M. Plant". The New York Times. 22 July 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Ill-Advised StrikeEditor: UAW Local 239 decided to…". 28 June 1991.
- ^ Abplanalp, Andrej (14 June 2019). "The women's strike day of 1991". Swiss National Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Restaurant Workers at United Nations Strike". The New York Times. 14 July 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Watson, Laurie (24 August 1991). "Postal workers strike". UPI. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Remembering the Frontier Strike: 30 years later". Culinary Workers Union Local 226. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.5426734
- ^ Laucius, Joanne (11 April 2023). "What happens if 155,000 federal public service workers go on strike?". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- ^ Wilkinson, Tracy (1 November 1991). "Nurses Back on Job as Talks Continue". L.A. Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Hicks, Jonathan P. (26 December 1991). "Strike at Small Steelmaker Poses a Big Test for a Union". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "USW strikes Lukens". UPI. 1 October 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Werbner, Pnina (2014). "'Legitmate Expectations'". The Making of an African Working Class. Pluto Press. pp. 75–95. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p51f.11. ISBN 978-0-7453-3495-0. JSTOR j.ctt183p51f.11.
- ^ "Nurses strike Pa. state hospitals". UPI. 13 November 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Wren, Christopher (6 November 1991). "Paralyzing South African Strike Ends". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ "Strike by Blacks Paralyzes South Africa". The New York Times. 5 November 1991. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Yarrow, Andrew L. (5 December 1991). "Grad Students At Yale Strike To Get a Union". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2024.