Timeline of strikes in 2017
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A number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred in 2017.
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 2016
[edit]- 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest
- Northern Virginia airport workers' strikes
- 2016–2019 United Kingdom railway strikes
- 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike
January
[edit]- 2017 Ivory Coast public sector strike[1]
- 2017 KCL cleaners' strike, by cleaners at King's College, London.[2]
February
[edit]- Day Without Immigrants, in protest against American president Donald Trump's plans for deportations and construction of a border wall with Mexico.
- 2017 Military Police of Espírito Santo strike, over low salaries.
- 2017–2019 transport strikes in the Philippines
March
[edit]April
[edit]- 2017 Brazilian general strike, in protest against the 2017 Brazil labour reform
May
[edit]June
[edit]- 2017 Kenya nurses' strike[4]
- 2017 Greek sanitation workers' strike[5]
- 2017 Spain transportation strikes
July
[edit]- 2017 British Columbia Coca-Cola strike[6]
- 2017 Costa Rica judicial workers’ strike[7]
- 2017 Toronto Pearson International Airport strike, by baggage handlers at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada.[8]
August
[edit]September
[edit]- 2017 Denmark women's national football team strike, after the Danish Football Association attempting to stop classifying women's national team players as employees
October
[edit]- 2017 Catalan general strike, pro-independence strike following the 2017 Catalan independence referendum
- 2017 PIMS strike, 25-day strike by workers at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences calling for the reversal of the 2013 merger between the PIMS and Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University.[9][10]
- 2017 Spanish consulate in Sydney strike, by staff at the Spanish consulate in Sydney over low wages.[11]
November
[edit]- 2017 Sanmina Chennai strike by workers at a Sanmina Corporation factory in Chennai, India.[12]
- 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike
December
[edit]- 2017 Blaise Diagne International Airport strike, by workers at the newly-opened Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal.[13]
- 2017 Ford Craiova strike, wildcat strike by autoworkers at a Ford factory in Craiova, Romania.[14]
- 2017 Icelandair strike[15]
- 2017–2018 Moroccan protests, following the death of two miners in Jerada.
- 2017 Sanmina Shenzhen strike, by workers at a Sanmina Corporation factory in Shenzhen, China, over factory relocation plans.[16]
- 2017 Swaziland Revenue Authority strike, by staff at the Swaziland Revenue Authority in Eswatini.[17]
- 2017 Teva strike, by Teva Pharmaceuticals workers in Israel.[18]
- VCUarts adjunct workers' protests, by adjunct professors at Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States over low pay, lack of benefits, and long working hours.
List of lockouts in 2017
[edit]- 2017-18 Nadi International Airport lockout, at the Nadi International Airport in Fiji, after airport workers held a meeting to discuss an 11-year pay freeze and sexual harrassment allegations.[19]
Commentary
[edit]According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 79 work stoppages in the United Kingdom in 2017, with 276,000 working days lost and 33,000 workers involved. This marked a new record for the lowest number of strikes in a single year in the UK since the ONS began keeping records in 1981.[20] 68% of the working days lost were lost in the transport and storage industry.[21] In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracked 7 major work stoppages in 2017, the second-lowest since it began keeping records in 1947.[22] In South Africa, the Department of Employment and Labour tracked 132 work stoppages in 2017, an increase of 10 from 2016, involving a total of 125‚000 workers.[23]
References
[edit]- ^ Lyngaas, Sean (28 March 2017). "'Social Discontent' Grips Ivory Coast as Economic Gains Pass Many By". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Garrett, Katie (6 February 2017). "London students join cleaners in protests over 'unfair' working conditions for migrants". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Quebec passes back-to-work law to end construction strike". Global News. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Masika, Moses (31 October 2017). "Nurses strike shows poor management of health care in Kenya". The Conversation. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Greek garbage workers protest over jobs as trash piles grow". Reuters. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ McElroy, Justin (11 August 2017). "Strike by B.C.'s Lower Mainland Coca-Cola workers comes to end". CBC News. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Arias, L. (25 July 2017). "No solution in sight for judicial workers' strike". The Tico Times. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Fox, Chris (27 July 2017). "Pearson airport baggage handlers are officially on strike". CTV News. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Mehmood, Khurram (17 October 2017). "A hospital on strike". Dawn. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Basharat, Rahul (27 October 2017). "PIMS employees call off 25-day long strike". The Nation. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Frustrated Spanish-Australian staff on strike over nine year consulate pay freeze". SBS. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Kannan, Sindhu (19 December 2017). "Sanmina employees try to besiege US consulate in Chennai, detained". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Senegal air traffic control strike at new Dakar airport". BBC News. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Schellhagen, Johanna (11 January 2018). "Wildcat strike at Ford in Craiova". LibCom. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Hundreds of people stranded at Iceland International Airport as flight engineers go on strike". The Iceland Monitor. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Shenzhen factory workers united in protest at relocation plans". China Labour Bulletin. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Hlatshwayo, Sithembile (19 December 2017). "SRA STRIKE TURNS NASTY AS POLICE, UNION CLASH". Times of Swaziland. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Teva workers protest layoffs as solidarity strike grinds country to halt". The Times of Israel. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Fiji airport workers due to return after month locked out". Radio New Zealand. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "UK strikes reach all-time low in 2017". BBC News. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Isaac, Anna (30 May 2018). "Strike action in the UK hit a record low in 2017". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "7 major work stoppages in 2017, second lowest since 1947". Bureau of Labor Statistics. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ Mahlakoana, Theto (11 July 2018). "SA records highest increase in labour strikes in 2017". The Herald. Retrieved 3 October 2024.