Timeline of strikes in 1951
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A number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred in 1951.
Background
[edit]A 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
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Continuing strikes from 1950
[edit]- Corroboree Strikes. In Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Led by Fred Nadpur Waters.[1]
- Empire Zinc strike
- 1950–51 Irish rail strike[2]
January
[edit]February
[edit]- 1951 Grenada general strike[3][4]
- 1951 Lānaʻi pineapple strike. 201-day strike by pineapple plantation workers in Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi.[5][6]
- 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute
March
[edit]April
[edit]- Moton School Strike
- 1951 Detroit transit strike. 59-day strike by transit workers in Detroit, United States.[7]
- 1951 Polish miners strikes. Wave of strikes by miners, especially in the Dąbrowa Basin, Poland.[8]
May
[edit]June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]September
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]- 1951–52 Dublin hotel strike. 7-month strike by hotel workers in Dublin, Ireland, for the introduction of service charges.[15][16]
- 1951 Israeli seamen’s strike. Seven week strike by seamen in Israel.[17][18]
December
[edit]- 1951 Mitsukoshi strike, strike by Mitsukoshi workers, the first strike by workers at a major department store in Japan.[19][20]
References
[edit]- ↑ Harris, Amanda (7 August 2023). "In 1951, corroboree dancers in Darwin went on strike: their actions would reverberate as far as Melbourne". The Conversation. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "Rail Strike in Ireland Ended". The New York Times. 29 January 1951. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
- ↑ "BRITISH WEST INDIES: Landing in Grenada". Time Magazine. 5 March 1951. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "Grenada Strike Violence Rises". The New York Times. 27 February 1951. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "PINEAPPLE PAY SETTLED; Lanai Workers Win 15 Cents as Hourly Rise, Ending Strike". The New York Times. 16 September 1951. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ Omura, Kenji (June 1995). "Defeat and Victory: Lanai Pineapple Workers 1947-51". International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "TRANSIT STRIKE END IS VOTED IN DETROIT". The New York Times. 19 June 1951. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ De Graaf, Jan (27 November 2020). "The Occupational Strikes in the Dąbrowa Basin of April 1951: Stalinist Industrialization Against the Traditions of the Polish Working Class". International Labor and Working-Class History. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "Doctors call for strike". The Singapore Free Press. 25 May 1951. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ↑ "650 Doctors Strike in Egypt". The New York Times. 16 May 1951. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ↑ "POLICE STRIKE INQUIRY". The Straits Times. 23 June 1951. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ↑ Berridge, W.J. (24 February 2011). "'What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership': The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ↑ "CITY TAKES A HAND TO END PIER STRIKE; AS LONGSHOREMEN CONTINUED THEIR WILDCAT STRIKE". The New York Times. 19 October 1951. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ Lamson, Robert (March 1954). "The 1951 New York Wildcat Dock Strike: Some Consequences Of Union Structure for Management-Labor Relations". The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "May 2nd, 1952". The Irish Times. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ Falvey, Deirdre (5 February 2022). "When is a restaurant tip not a tip? When it's a service charge". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
This week in the Seanad, Gavan explained service charges first came about after a 1951 Dublin hotel strike, leading to an agreement to service charges, owned by employees and distributed through unions. The original service charge was "to ensure justice and better pay for workers".
- ↑ "Striking Israeli Seamen Clash with Police; 100 Strikers Arrested". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 28 November 1951. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ Garfinkel, Boaz (14 July 2025). "Military strikebreaking and the making of state–labor relations in early Israel". Labor History. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Japan's Sogo & Seibu union mulls rare department store strike over sell-off to US fund". Mainichi Shimbun. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
- ↑ "VOX POPULI: Strikes, although rare in Japan, are an essential worker's right". The Asahi Shimbun. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2024.