# List of strikes

The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).

## Chronological list of strikes
### Twelfth century BCE

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| c. 1158 BCE | Deir el-Medina strikes (possibly earliest recorded strike action in history) | Deir el-Medina | New Kingdom of Egypt |

### Fourteenth century

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1353 | 1353 Walsham Manor strike | Walsham le Willows | England |

### Sixteenth century

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1538 | 1538 Cobblers' Strike | Wisbech | England |

### Seventeenth century

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1619 | Polish craftsmen's strike | Jamestown | Thirteen Colonies |
| 1661 | Indentured Servants' Plot | Virginia colony | Thirteen Colonies |

### Eighteenth century

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1766 | Silver miners' strike | Mineral del Monte | Mexico |
| 1787 | Weavers' strike | Calton, Glasgow | Scotland |

### Nineteenth century
#### 1800–1849

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1818 | Manchester Mill Worker's Strike | New Hampshire | United States |
| 1824 | Slater's Mill Women's Strike | Rhode Island | United States |
| 1828 | New Hampshire Mill Women's Strike | New Hampshire | United States |
| 1833 | Four pennies riot | Anzin | France |
| 1834 | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike | Lowell, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1835 | Textile strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States |
| 1835 | 1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strike | Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. | United States |
| 1835 | New England Mill Strike | New England | United States |
| 1835 | Philadelphia General Strike | Philadelphia | United States |
| 1836 | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike | Lowell, Massachusetts | United States |

#### 1850–1899

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1853–1854 | Preston strike of 1853–1854 | Preston, Lancashire | United Kingdom |
| 1859 | London builders' strike | London | United Kingdom |
| 1860 | New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 | Lynn, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1864 | Collar Laundry Union strike | Troy, New York | United States |
| 1865 | Upper Peninsula miners' strike | Marquette, Michigan | United States |
| 1867 | Chinese Labor Strike of 1867 | Sierra Nevada, California | United States |
| 1870 | North Adams strike | North Adams, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1872 | Gas Stokers' strike | London | United Kingdom |
| 1872 | Metropolitan Police strike of 1872 | London | United Kingdom |
| 1873 | Coal miners' strike of 1873 | northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1874 | Tompkins Square Riot | New York City | United States |
| 1877 | Great Railroad Strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1877–1878 | Cigar makers' strike of 1877 | New York City | United States |
| 1881 | 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 1883 | Camp Dump strike | Omaha, Nebraska | United States |
| 1886 | Great Southwest railroad strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1886 | Haymarket affair | Chicago, Illinois | United States |
| 1886 | Bay View massacre | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States |
| 1887 | Thibodaux massacre (sugar cane workers' strike) | Lafourche Parish, Louisiana | United States |
| 1888 | Burlington railroad strike | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | United States |
| 1888 | Matchgirls' strike | London | United Kingdom |
| 1889 | London dock strike | London, England | United Kingdom |
| 1889 | Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889 | Oslo | Sweden-Norway |
| 1890 | Southampton Dock strike | Southampton, England | United Kingdom |
| 1890 | Maritime dispute | Melbourne | Australia |
| 1891 | Australian shearers' strike | Queensland | Australia |
| 1891 | Cotton pickers' strike of 1891 | Lee County, Arkansas | United States |
| 1891 | Coal Creek War (miners) | Anderson County, Tennessee | United States |
| 1892 | Miners' strike | Broken Hill | Australia |
| 1892 | Homestead strike (steel workers) | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1892 | Buffalo switchmen's strike | Buffalo, New York | United States |
| 1892 | Coeur d'Alene labor strike | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho | United States |
| 1893 | UK miners' strike | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1894 | Pullman Strike | Pullman, Chicago | United States |
| 1894 | Great Northern Railway strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1894 | Bituminous coal miners' strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1895 | Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike | Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Governorate | Russian Empire |
| 1896 | Leadville miners' strike | Leadville, Colorado | United States |
| 1897 | Lattimer massacre | Lattimer, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1898 | South Wales coal strike | Wales | United Kingdom |
| 1899 | Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho | United States |
| 1899 | Weight Strike | Ybor City, Tampa, Florida | United States |
| 1899 | Newsboys' strike | New York City | United States |
| 1899 | Russian student strike | St. Petersburg University | Russian Empire |

### Twentieth century
#### 1900s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1900 | St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900 | St. Louis, Missouri | United States |
| 1900–1903 | Penrhyn 'Streic Fawr' ('Great Strike) | Bethesda, North Wales | Wales, UK |
| 1900 | Anthracite coal strike | Eastern Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1901 | U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901 | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1902 | Anthracite coal strike | Illinois, Mississippi and Texas | United States |
| 1903 | Oxnard strike of 1903 | Oxnard, California | United States |
| 1903 | Carbon County Strike | Carbon County, Utah | United States |
| 1903–1904 | Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners | Colorado | United States |
| 1906 | Cananea strike | Sonora, Mexico | Mexico |
| 1907 | Music Hall Strike of 1907 | London | United Kingdom |
| 1907 | Boston garment worker strike | Boston | United States |
| 1907 | Belfast Dock strike | Belfast | Ireland |
| 1907 | Río Blanco strike | Orizaba, Veracruz | Mexico |
| 1907 | 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike | San Francisco, California | United States |
| 1907 | Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers | Languedoc, Pyrénées-Orientales | France |
| 1908 | Pensacola streetcar operators' strike | Pensacola, Florida | United States |
| 1909 | Georgia Railroad strike | Georgia | United States |
| 1909 | Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909 | McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1909 | New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" | Manhattan, New York | United States |

#### 1910s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1910–1911 | Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 | Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1910–1911 | Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11 | Tampa, Florida | United States |
| 1910 | Clockmakers' strike | New York City | United States |
| 1910–1911 | 1910 Chicago garment workes' strike | Chicago | United States |
| 1911 | 1911 Liverpool general transport strike | Liverpool, Merseyside | United Kingdom |
| 1911 | Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911 | Illinois, Mississippi and Texas | United States |
| 1911 | 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike | Grand Rapids, Michigan | United States |
| 1912 | 1912 Lawrence textile strike, also called the "Bread and Roses" strike | Lawrence, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1912 | Waihi miners' strike | Waihi | New Zealand |
| 1911–1912 | Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912 | Eastern Louisiana | United States |
| 1912 | Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 | Kanawha County, West Virginia | United States |
| 1912 | 1912 New York City waiters' strike | New York City | United States |
| 1912–1913 | 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike | Little Falls, New York | United States |
| 1912–13 | Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912 | Seattle, Washington | United States |
| 1913 | 1913 El Paso smelters' strike | El Paso, Texas | United States |
| 1913 | Dublin strike and lockout | Dublin | Ireland |
| 1913 | Ludlow Massacre | Ludlow, Colorado | United States |
| 1913 | Paterson silk strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States |
| 1913 | 1913 Sligo Dock strike | Sligo | Ireland |
| 1913 | Leith dockers' strike of 1913 | Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland | United Kingdom |
| 1913 | 1913 Great Strike | nationwide | New Zealand |
| 1913 | Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 | Indianapolis, Indiana | United States |
| 1913–1914 | Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 | Upper Michigan | United States |
| 1914–1939 | Bursdon teachers' strike | Burston, Norfolk | England |
| 1914–1915 | 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 1915–16 | Bayonne refinery strikes | Bayonne, New Jersey | United States |
| 1915–17 | 1915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike | Johnson County, Arkansas | United States |
| 1916 | 1916 Atlanta streetcar strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 1916–1917 | 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike | Minnesota | United States |
| 1917 | The Great Strike | nationwide | Australia |
| 1917–19 | 1917–1919 Brazil strike movement | nationwide | Brazil |
| 1917 | 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | United States |
| 1918 | BLE strike in New York City | New York City | United States |
| 1918–19 | British police strikes in 1918 and 1919 | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1918-20 | 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes | New York City | United States |
| 1919 | Battle of George Square | Glasgow | Scotland |
| 1919 | US Strike wave of 1919 | nationwide | United States |
| 1919 | La Canadiense strike | Catalonia | Spain |
| 1919 | Florida Pebble Strike | Mulberry, Florida | United States |
| 1919 | Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919 | Boston | United States |
| 1919 | 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1919 | Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919 | Los Angeles, California | United States |
| 1919 | 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike | New York City | United States |
| 1919 | Boston Police Strike | Boston, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1919 | Steel strike of 1919 | Homestead, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1919 | Coal strike | nationwide | United States |

#### 1920s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1920 | Battle of Matewan | Matewan, West Virginia | United States |
| 1920 | 1920 Alabama coal strike | Alabama | United States |
| 1920 | 1920 French railway strikes | nationwide | France |
| 1920 | Denver streetcar strike of 1920 | Denver, Colorado | United States |
| 1920 | Oahu sugar strike of 1920 | Oahu, Hawaii | Territory of Hawaii |
| 1921 | Kronstadt rebellion | Kronstadt | Russian SFSR |
| 1921 | Black Friday (1921) (expected strike not called) | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1921 | Battle of Blair Mountain | Logan County, West Virginia | United States |
| 1922 | New England Textile Strike | Northeast | United States |
| 1922 | UMW General coal strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1922 | Herrin massacre | Herrin, Illinois | United States |
| 1922 | Great Railroad Strike of 1922 | nationwide | United States |
| 1922 | 1922 seamen's strike | citywide | Hong Kong |
| 1923 | 1923 San Pedro maritime strike | San Pedro, Los Angeles, California | United States |
| 1923 | 1923 Victorian police strike | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia |
| 1924 | Hanapepe massacre | Kauai, Hawaii | United States |
| 1925 | Ammanford anthracite strike | Ammanford, Carmarthenshire | Wales |
| 1925–1926 | Canton-Hong Kong strike | Guangzhou and Hong Kong | China and Hong Kong |
| 1926 | 1926 United Kingdom general strike | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1926 | 1926 Passaic textile strike | Passaic, New Jersey | United States |
| 1927 | 1927 Indiana bituminous strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1927 | Columbine Mine massacre | Serene, Colorado | United States |
| 1928 | 1928 New Bedford textile strike | New Bedford, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1928 | Banana massacre | nationwide | Colombia |
| 1929 | 1929 Australian timber workers' strike | nationwide | Australia |
| 1929 | Lupeni Strike of 1929 | Lupeni, Harghita | Romania |
| 1929 | 1929 New Orleans streetcar strike | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States |
| 1929 | Rothbury Riot | North Rothbury, New South Wales | Australia |
| 1929 | Loray Mill strike | Gastonia, North Carolina | United States |

#### 1930s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1930 | Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 | Imperial Valley, California | United States |
| 1930 | Phú Riềng Đỏ | Biên Hòa Province | French Indochina |
| 1931 | Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931 | Tampa, Florida | United States |
| 1931 | Santa Clara cannery strike | Santa Clara, California | United States |
| 1931 | Ådalen shootings | Ådalen | Sweden |
| 1931 | Harlan County War | Harlan County, Kentucky | United States |
| 1931 | Invergordon Mutiny | Invergordon | United Kingdom |
| 1932 | Shunjuen Incident | Tokyo | Japan |
| 1932 | Century Airlines pilots' strike | Chicago, Illinois | United States |
| 1932 | Ford Hunger March | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
| 1932 | Griviţa strike of 1933 | Bucharest | Romania |
| 1933 | Briggs Manufacturing Company strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
| 1933 | California agricultural strikes of 1933 | California | United States |
| 1934 | Kohler strike | Sheboygan, Wisconsin | United States |
| 1934 | 1934 New York hotel strike | New York City | United States |
| 1934 | Auto-Lite strike | Toledo, Ohio | United States |
| 1934 | Minneapolis general strike of 1934 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | United States |
| 1934 | 1934 West Coast waterfront strike | U.S. West Coast | United States |
| 1934 | United Fruit banana strike | nationwide | Costa Rica |
| 1934 | Textile workers' strike (1934) | New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states | United States |
| 1934 | Asturian miners' strike of 1934 | Asturia | Spain |
| 1934–35 | 1934–35 Milwaukee sales clerks' strike | Milwaukee | United States |
| 1935 | Battle of Ballantyne Pier | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada |
| 1935 | Copperbelt strike (1935) | Copperbelt Province | Northern Rhodesia |
| 1935 | Pacific Northwest lumber strike | U.S. Pacific Northwest | United States |
| 1935 | On-to-Ottawa Trek | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada |
| 1935 | 1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike | U.S. Gulf Coast | United States |
| 1936 | 1936 Venezuelan oil strike [es] | nationwide | Venezuela |
| 1936 | Flint sit-down strike | Flint, Michigan | United States |
| 1936 | Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike | U.S. Gulf Coast | United States |
| 1936 | SS California strike | San Pedro, California | United States |
| 1936–37 | Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 | New York City | United States |
| 1937 | 1937 Fleischer Studios strike | New York City | United States |
| 1937 | Little Steel strike including Memorial Day massacre of 1937 | nationwide | United States |
| 1937 | 1937 Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike | Lewiston, Maine and Auburn, Maine | United States |
| 1937 | London busmen's strike | London | United Kingdom |
| 1938 | 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike | San Antonio | United States |
| 1938 | Hilo massacre | Hilo, Hawaii | Territory of Hawaii |
| 1939 | Tool and die strike of 1939 | Detroit, Michigan | United States |

#### 1940s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1941 | February Strike | nationwide | Netherlands |
| 1941 | Disney animators' strike | Burbank, California | United States |
| 1942 | 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike | Betteshanger, Kent | United Kingdom |
| 1942 | Quit India movement | nationwide | India |
| 1942–44 | 1942-44 musicians' strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1943 | 1943 Rolls-Royce strike | Hillington, Scotland | United Kingdom |
| 1944 | Philadelphia Transit Strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1944 | Port Chicago mutiny | Port Chicago, California | United States |
| 1945 | Hollywood Black Friday | Hollywood, California | United States |
| 1945–46 | Strike wave of 1946 | nationwide | United States |
| 1945–46 | 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike | Charleston, South Carolina | United States |
| 1946 | African Mine Workers' Strike | nationwide | South Africa |
| 1946 | 1946 Montreal Cotton Strike | Montreal, Quebec | Canada |
| 1946 | 1946 Pilbara strike | Pilbara | Western Australia |
| 1946 | The Great Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946 | Hawaii nationwide | Territory of Hawaii |
| 1946 | 1946 Palestine general strike | nationwide | Mandatory Palestine |
| 1947 | Biratnagar Jute Mill Strike | Biratnagar | Kingdom of Nepal |
| 1947 | Telephone Strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1948 | 1948 Queensland Railway strike | Queensland | Australia |
| 1948 | 1948 United States Meatpacking strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1948 | Goodyear strike | Akron, Ohio | United States |
| 1948 | 1948 Caterpillar strike | Peoria, Illinois | United States |
| 1948 | Boeing Strike of 1948 | Seattle, Washington | United States |
| 1948 | 1948 Miami Garment workers strike | Miami, Florida | United States |
| 1949 | Asbestos Strike | Asbestos, Quebec | Canada |
| 1949 | 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike | New York City | United States |
| 1949 | 1949 East German State Railway strike | Berlin | East Germany |
| 1949 | 1949 New York City taxicab strike | New York City | United States |
| 1949 | 1949 New York City brewery strike | New York City | United States |
| 1949 | 1949 Australian coal strike | nationwide | Australia |
| 1949 | 1949 Kemi strike | Kemi | Finland |
| 1949 | Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949 | Puget Sound, Washington | United States |

#### 1950s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1950 | 1950 Venezuelan oil strike [es] | nationwide | Venezuela |
| 1950 | Atlanta transit strike of 1950 | Atlanta | United States |
| 1951 | New Zealand waterfront strike | nationwide | New Zealand |
| 1951 | Barcelona tram strike | Barcelona, Catalonia | Spain |
| 1951 | 1951 Aliquippa steelworkers strike | Aliquippa, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1951 | 1951 Caterpillar strike | East Peoria, Illinois | United States |
| 1952 | 1952 steel strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1953 | 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike | Milwaukee | United States |
| 1953 | The Hartal of 1953 | nationwide | Sri Lanka |
| 1955 | Hock Lee bus riots | Singapore | Republic of Singapore |
| 1956 | Poznań protests of 1956 | Cegielski Factories | Polish People's Republic |
| 1957 | Murdochville strike | Murdochville, Quebec | Canada |
| 1957 | 1957 Long Island strike | Long Island, New York | United States |
| 1957 | 1957 Western Electric strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1958–59 | 1958–59 Mexican railroad strike | nationwide | Mexico |
| 1959 | Steel strike of 1959 | nationwide | United States |

#### 1960s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1960 | 1960 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States |
| 1960 | Miike Struggle | Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto | Japan |
| 1962 | 1962 New York City newspaper strike | New York City | United States |
| 1962 | Novocherkassk strike | Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant | Soviet Union |
| 1963 | Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 | Reesor, Ontario | Canada |
| 1964 | 1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike | Mount Isa, Queensland | Australia |
| 1964–65 | 1964–1965 Scripto strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 1965–70 | Delano grape strike | Delano, California | United States |
| 1966 | 1966 New York City transit strike | New York City | United States |
| 1966–73 | Gurindji strike | Kalkarindji, Northern Territory | Australia |
| 1966 | Texas farm workers' strike | Texas | United States |
| 1966–67 | St. John's University strike of 1966–67 | New York City | United States |
| 1967 | 1967 United States truckers strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1967 | Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots | citywide | British Hong Kong |
| 1967 | 1967 United States Railroad strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1967 | September 1967 General Motors strike | Dayton, Ohio | United States |
| 1967 | 1967 Caterpillar strike | Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1967 | November 1967 General Motors strike | Pontiac, Michigan | United States |
| 1968 | May 1968 in France | nationwide | France |
| 1968 | Memphis sanitation strike | Memphis, Tennessee | United States |
| 1968 | Chrysler wildcat strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
| 1968 | New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968 | New York City | United States |
| 1968 | Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 | Florida | United States |
| 1968 | 1968 NFL strike/lockout | Florida | United States |
| 1969 | Unofficial strike by mineworkers over pay of surface workers | nationwide | United Kingdom |

#### 1970s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1970 | Dock Workers Strike | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1970 | U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 | nationwide | United States |
| 1970 | 1970 Minneapolis teachers' strike | Minneapolis | United States |
| 1970–71 | Colour Strike | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1970–71 | Salad Bowl strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1971 | 1971 NYPD Work Stoppage | New York City | United States |
| 1971 | Longshore Strike (1971, U.S.) | U.S. West Coast Hawaii and British Columbia | United States and Canada |
| 1971 | 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1972 | 1972 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1972 | UK building workers' strike (1972) | Shrewsbury, Shropshire | United Kingdom |
| 1972 | UK miners' strike (1972) | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1972 | Chile truckers' strike | nationwide | Chile |
| 1973 | 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike | New York City | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Philadelphia teachers strike | Philadelphia | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike | Kings Cross, New South Wales | Australia |
| 1973 | 1973 Durban strikes | Natal | South Africa |
| 1973 | 1973 Chicago teachers strike | Chicago | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Cleveland teachers strike | Cleveland | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Pennsylvania Central Transportation strike | Northeastern United States | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Detroit teachers strike | Detroit | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Chrysler strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1973 | 1973 Caterpillar strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1974 | 1974 railway strike in India by 17 million workers of Indian Railways | nationwide | India |
| 1974 | 1974 Elliot Lake miners strike | Elliot Lake | Canada |
| 1974 | Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 | nationwide | United States |
| 1974 | Ulster Workers' Council Strike | nationwide | Northern Ireland |
| 1974 | UK miners' strike (1974) | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1974 | 1974 NFL strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1976–77 | Grunwick Dispute | London | England |
| 1977 | 1977 Atlanta sanitation strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 1977 | 1977 Latrobe Valley power strike | Victoria | Australia |
| 1977–78 | Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977–1978 | nationwide | United States |
| 1977–78 | 1977–78 Coors strike | Golden, Colorado | United States |
| 1978 | 1978 New York City newspaper strike | New York City | United States |
| 1978 | Sudbury Strike of 1978 | Sudbury, Ontario | Canada |
| 1978–79 | Winter of Discontent | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1979 | 1979 Boston University strike | Boston | United States |

#### 1980s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1980 | 1980 Lublin strikes | Lublin | Poland |
| 1980 | Gdańsk Shipyard Strike | Gdańsk | Poland |
| 1980 | Upper Silesia 1980 strikes | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Poland |
| 1980 | 1980 actors strike | nationwide (primarily Hollywood) | United States |
| 1981 | 1981 Schlitz strike | Milwaukee | United States |
| 1981 | Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization | nationwide | United States |
| 1981 | Bydgoszcz events | Bydgoszcz | Poland |
| 1981 | 1981 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States |
| 1981 | 1981 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1981 | 1981 strike at the Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń | Bieruń | Poland |
| 1981 | 1981 Milwaukee Police strike | Milwaukee | United States |
| 1982 | Great Bombay textile strike | Mumbai | India |
| 1982 | 1982 animators' strike | Greater Los Angeles | United States |
| 1982 | 1982 NFL strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1982 | 1982 garment workers' strike | New York City | United States |
| 1983 | 1983 SEPTA Regional Rail strike | Greater Philadelphia | United States |
| 1983 | Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 | Greenlee County, Arizona | United States |
| 1983 | 1983 Greyhound Bus Lines strike in Seattle | Seattle | United States |
| 1984 | Battle of Orgreave | Orgreave, South Yorkshire | England |
| 1984 | Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation | Birkenhead | United Kingdom |
| 1984–85 | 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1985 | 1985 Pan Am strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1985–86 | 1985–86 Hormel strike | Austin, Minnesota | United States |
| 1985–87 | 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike | Watsonville, California | United States |
| 1985–86 | 1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike | New Bedford, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1985 | Mudginberri dispute | Northern Territory | Australia |
| 1985 | 1985 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide | United States and Canada |
| 1986 | Dollar Sweets dispute | State of Victoria | Australia |
| 1986 | Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike | North Billerica, Massachusetts | United States |
| 1986 | Major Indoor Soccer League lockout | nationwide | United States |
| 1986 | Wapping dispute | London | England |
| 1987 | International Paper strike | Corinth, New York | United States |
| 1987 | 1987 NFL strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1987 | Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher's Strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada |
| 1988 | 1988 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States |
| 1988 | 1988 Polish strikes | nationwide | Poland |
| 1988 | 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 1989 | 1989 Kosovo miners' strike | SAP Kosovo | SFR Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | 1989 Australian pilots' strike | nationwide | Australia |
| 1989–90 | Pittston Coal strike | Pittston, Pennsylvania | United States |
| 1989–93 | Donbas miners' strikes | Ukrainian SSR | Soviet Union |
| 1989–90 | 1989–90 British ambulance strike | Nationwide | United Kingdom |

#### 1990s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 1990 | 1990 Major League Baseball lockout | nationwide | United States |
| 1990 | Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990) | Mandal | India |
| 1991 | Frontier Hotel Culinary Workes (Las Vegas, US 1991–1998) | Las Vegas | United States |
| 1991 | 1991 Belarusian strikes | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic | Soviet Union |
| 1991 | 1991 Public Service Alliance of Canada Strike | Ottawa | Canada |
| 1992 | 1992 United States railroad strike | nationwide | United States |
| 1992 | 1992 NHL strike | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1992 | Southern California drywall strike | Southern California | United States |
| 1993 | Timex strike | Dundee | Scotland |
| 1994–95 | 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1994–95 | 1994–95 NHL lockout | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1994 | San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 | San Francisco, California | United States |
| 1995 | 1995 Boeing Strike | Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton) | United States |
| 1995–97 | Detroit Newspaper Strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
| 1995 | 1995 strikes in France | nationwide | France |
| 1995 | 1995 NBA lockout | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1995–98 | Liverpool dockers' strike (1995–98) | Liverpool, Merseyside | England |
| 1996 | 1996 NBA lockout | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1996–97 | 1996–1997 strikes in South Korea | nationwide | South Korea |
| 1996–97 | 1996 NBA lockout | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1996–97 | Donbas miners' strikes | Donbas | Ukraine |
| 1997 | 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.) | nationwide | United States |
| 1997 | 1997 Ontario teachers strike | Ontario | Canada |
| 1998 | 1998 Australian waterfront dispute | Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle and Sydney | Australia |
| 1998 | 1998 Russian miners' strike | Komi Republic, Kemerovo Oblast, Rostov Oblast | Russia |
| 1998 | Donbas miners' strikes | Luhansk Oblast | Ukraine |
| 1998–99 | 1998–99 NBA lockout | nationwide | Canada and United States |
| 1999 | 1999 UNAM strike | Mexico City | Mexico |

### Twenty-first century
#### 2000s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 2000 | Verizon Strike | nationwide | United States |
| 2000 | 2000 commercial actors strike | Hollywood | United States |
| 2001 | Jeffboat wildcat strike | Jeffersonville, Indiana | United States |
| 2001 | National Gallery of Canada | Ottawa, Ontario | Canada |
| 2001–2003 | Friction Dynamics - T&G Union | Caernarfon, Wales | United Kingdom |
| 2002 | UK Firefighter strike 2002 | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2003 | Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike | nationwide | Scotland |
| 2003 | 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike | New York City | United States |
| 2003 | 2003 June 15 Hospitality workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel. | Chicago, Illinois | United States |
| 2003–2004 | Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004 | Southern California | United States |
| 2004–2005 | 2004–05 NHL lockout | nationwide | United States and Canada |
| 2005 | Bolivian Gas War | nationwide | Bolivia |
| 2005 | 2005 New York City transit strike | New York City | United States |
| 2006 | Dhaka strikes | Dhaka | Bangladesh |
| 2006 | 2006 labor protests in France | nationwide | France |
| 2006 | 2006 Oaxaca protests | Oaxaca | Mexico |
| 2006 | 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute | Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch | New Zealand |
| 2006 | South Korean railroad strike of 2006 | nationwide | South Korea |
| 2006 | 2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada |
| 2006 | University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign | Coral Gables, Florida | United States |
| 2007 | 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike | Portland, Oregon | United States |
| 2007 | 2007 South African public servants' strike | nationwide | South Africa |
| 2007 | 2007 Israeli teachers' strike | nationwide | Israel |
| 2007 | 2007 Orange County transit strike | Orange, California | United States |
| 2007 | Hayward teachers strike | Hayward, California | United States |
| 2007 | 2007 General Motors strike | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
| 2007 | 2007 UK postal strikes | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2007 | 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike | New York City | United States |
| 2007 | November 2007 strikes in France | nationwide | France |
| 2007 | German national rail strike of 2007 | nationwide | Germany |
| 2007 | 2007 South Africa miners' strike | nationwide | South Africa |
| 2007–2008 | 2007–2008 CBS News writers strike | New York City | United States |
| 2007–2008 | 2007–2008 Cork players strike | County Cork | Ireland |
| 2007–2008 | 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood, California | United States |
| 2007–2008 | 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan Strike | Aoyama, Tokyo | Japan |
| 2008 | 2008 British teacher's strike | nationwide | England |
| 2008 | 2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada |
| 2008 | 2008 VIVA bus operators strike | nationwide | Canada |
| 2008 | Boeing Machinists Strike of 2008 | Seattle, Washington | United States |
| 2008–2009 | 2008–2009 York University strike | York, Ontario | Canada |
| 2008–2009 | Istanbul metalworkers' strike of 2008–2009 | Istanbul | Turkey |
| 2009 | 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes | North Killingholme, Lincolnshire | England |
| 2009 | Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot | Tonghua, Jilin | China |
| 2009 | 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike | Toronto, Ontario | Canada |
| 2009 | 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike | City of Leeds West Yorkshire | England |
| 2009 | 2009 UK postal strikes | nationwide | United Kingdom |

#### 2010s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 2010 | 2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike | San Juan | Puerto Rico |
| 2010 | 2010 Chinese autoworkers strike | Foshan and Zhongshan | China |
| 2010 | 2010 Chinese labour unrest | nationwide | China |
| 2010 | 2010 Cambodian garment workers strike | Phnom Phen | Cambodia |
| 2010 | 2010 Scottish football referee strike | nationwide | Scotland |
| 2010 | 2010 Spanish air traffic controllers strike | nationwide | Spain |
| 2010 | 2010 Major League Soccer lockout/strike | nationwide | United States |
| 2010 | 2010 Georgia prison strike | Georgia | United States |
| 2010–2011 | 2010–2011 Hanjin Heavy Industries strike | nationwide | South Korea and the Philippines |
| 2011 | 2011 Shanghai Truckers strike | Shanghai | China |
| 2011 | 2011 NBA lockout | nationwide | United States and Canada |
| 2011 | 2011 NFL lockout | nationwide | United States |
| 2011 | Zhanaozen massacre | Mangystau Region | Kazakhstan |
| 2011 | 2011 Israeli doctors' strike | nationwide | Israel |
| 2012 | 2012 NFL referee lockout | nationwide | United States |
| 2012–13 | 2012–13 NHL lockout | nationwide | United States and Canada |
| 2012 | 2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike | Los Angeles and Long Beach, California | United States |
| 2013 | 2013 Southern Weekly incident | Guangzhou, Guangdong | China |
| 2013 | 2013 Hong Kong dock strike | citywide | Hong Kong |
| 2013 | 2013 Colombian miners strike | Northern Colombia | Colombia |
| 2014 | Chinese Golf Factory Workers Strike for Essential Rights | Shenzhen | China |
| 2014 | Tacoma nurses strike 2014 | Tacoma and Lakewood, Washington | United States |
| 2014 | 2014 South African platinum strike | nationwide | South Africa |
| 2015 | 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike | California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington | United States |
| 2015 | 2015 Kohler Strike | Kohler, Wisconsin | United States |
| 2016 | 2016 Verizon workers' strike | New York City | United States |
| 2016–2017 | 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike | Los Angeles, California | United States |
| 2017 | 2017 Philippine jeepney drivers' strike | nationwide | Philippines |
| 2018–2019 | 2018–2019 teachers' strikes in the United States | nationwide | United States |
| 2018 | 2018 York University strike: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Assistant, Research Assistant, and Contract Faculty Strike | York, Ontario | Canada |
| 2018 | 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike | Taylorsville, Mississippi | United States |
| 2018 | 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike | DeKalb County, Georgia | United States |
| 2018 | Brazil truck drivers' strike | nationwide | Brazil |
| 2018 | Marriott Hotels strike | Bethesda, Maryland | United States |
| 2018 | Jasic incident | Shenzhen, Guangdong | China |
| 2018–2019 | 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States | nationwide | United States |
| 2018 | 2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike | Alabama and Mississippi | United States |
| 2018 | 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike | Atlanta | United States |
| 2018–present | School strike for climate | worldwide | global |
| 2018 | 2018–2020 UK higher education strikes | nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2019 | 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike | Los Angeles County, California | United States |
| 2019 | Wright State University 2019 faculty strike | Dayton, Ohio | United States |
| 2019 | 2019 Portuguese fuel-tanker drivers' strike | nationwide | Portugal |
| 2019 | 2019 Stop & Shop strike | Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut | United States |
| 2019 | 2019 India doctors' strike | West Bengal | India |
| 2019 | 2019 Alaska ferry workers strike | Alaska | United States |
| 2019 | 2019 AT&T strike | Southern United States | United States |
| 2019–2020 | 2019–2020 French pension reform strike | nationwide | France |

#### 2020s

| Date | Strike | Place | Country |
| 2020 | 2020 Santa Cruz graduate students' strike | Santa Cruz, California | United States |
| 2020 | 2020 New Orleans sanitation strike | New Orleans | United States |
| 2020 | 2020 Bath shipbuilders strike | Bath, Maine | United States |
| 2020 | Strike for Black Lives | Nationwide | United States |
| 2020 | 2020 Port of Montreal strike | Montreal | Canada |
| 2020 | 2020 Michigan graduate students strike | Ann Arbor, Michigan | United States |
| 2020 | 2020 University of Illinois Hospital strikes | Chicago | United States |
| 2020–2021 | 2020–2021 Alabama aluminum plant strike | Muscle Shoals, Alabama | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Hunts Point Produce Market strike | New York City | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 French labor protests | Nationwide | France |
| 2021 | 2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike | St. Paul Park, Minnesota | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Go North West strike | Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 2021 | 2021 St. Charles Bend strike | Bend, Oregon | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Saint Vincent Hospital strike | Worcester, Massachusetts | United States |
| 2021–2022 | 2021–2022 Columbia University strike | New York City | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Allegheny Technologies strike | Northern United States | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 New York University strike | New York City | United States |
| 2021–2023 | 2021–2023 Warrior Met Coal strike | Alabama | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Minas Gerais prostitute strike | Minas Gerais | Brazil |
| 2021 | 2021 Virginia Volvo Trucks strike | Dublin, Virginia | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Oregon Tech strike | Oregon | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Cook County nurses strike | Cook County, Illinois | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Frito-Lay strike | Topeka, Kansas | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Nigerian doctors strike | Nationwide | Nigeria |
| 2021 | 2021 Nabisco strike | Nationwide | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Heaven Hill strike | Bardstown, Kentucky | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Washington state carpenters strike | Washington | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Mercy Hospital strike | Buffalo, New York | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Kellogg's strike | Nationwide | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 John Deere strike | Nationwide | United States |
| 2021 | 2021 Kaiser Permanente strike | Nationwide | United States |
| 2022 | 2022 UPM Paperworkers' strike | Nationwide | Finland |
| 2022 | 2022 Minneapolis teacher's strike | Minneapolis | United States |
| 2022 | 2022 University of California academic workers' strike | California | United States |
| 2022 | 2022 British barristers' industrial action | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022 | 2022 BT Group strikes | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022 | 2022 Scotland bin strikes | Scotland | United Kingdom |
| 2022–2024 | 2022–2024 United Kingdom railway strikes | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022–present | United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes (2022–present) | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022–2023 | 2022–2023 National Health Service strikes | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022–2023 | 2022–2023 United Kingdom postal workers strikes | Nationwide | United Kingdom |
| 2022–2023 | 2022–2023 HarperCollins strike | New York City | United States |
| 2023 | 2023 transport strike in the Philippines | Nationwide | Philippines |
| 2023 | University of Prince Edward Island faculty strike | Canada |
| 2023 | 2023 French pension reform strikes | Nationwide | France |
| 2023 | 2023 Portuguese housing crisis strikes | Lisbon | Portugal |
| 2023 | 2023 German public transport strike | Nationwide | Germany |
| 2023 | 2023 Temple University strike | Philadelphia | United States |
| 2023 | 2023 Rutgers University strike | New Jersey | United States |
| 2023 | 2023 Canadian federal worker strike | Nationwide | Canada |
| 2023 | 2023 Writers Guild of America strike | Hollywood | United States |
| 2023 | 2023 Romanian teachers' strike | Nationwide | Romania |
| 2023 | 2023 Manitoba Public Insurance Strike | Manitoba | Canada |
| 2023 | 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike | Hollywood | United States |
| 2023 | 2023 United Auto Workers strike | Nationwide | United States |
| 2024 | 2024 Canada Post strike | Nationwide | Canada |

## Chronological list of general strikes

| Date | Name | Place | Country | |
| 1820 | Radical War | Central Belt, Scotland | United Kingdom | Influenced by Radical demands for reform, especially among Scottish weavers |
| 1835 | Philadelphia general strike of 1835 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | Successful strike for a ten-hour work day and better wages |
| 1842 | General Strike of 1842 | England and Wales | United Kingdom | Chartist general strike against low wages originating from coal miners in Staffordshire before spreading to multiple industries in the Midlands as well as coal mines across the country. |
| 1855 | 1855 Catalan general strike | Catalonia | Spain |
| 1862–1865 | General strike of slaves | Nationwide | Confederate States of America | Slaves in the Southern United States stopped work and attempted to cross the frontlines of the American Civil War into Union territory, in what W.E.B. Du Bois held to be a crucial turning point in the war. |
| 1877 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri | United States | Strike by rail workers in a number of different states for wage increases; ended after 52 days with a suppression by the National Guard and local militias |
| 1886 | Walloon jacquerie of 1886 | Wallonia | Belgium | |
| 1892 | New Orleans general strike of 1892 | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States | Successful strike for a 10-hour day and overtime pay; notable for the participation of both white and black strikers |
| 1893 | Belgian general strike of 1893 | Mons | Belgium | Strike by the Belgian Labour Party to pressure Prime Minister Auguste Beernaert's Catholic Party government to introduce universal male suffrage |
| 1901 | 1901 Ybor City strikes | Ybor City, Tampa, Florida | United States |
| 1902 | Geneva general strike of 1902 | Geneva | Switzerland |
| 1904 | 1904 Italian general strike | Nationwide | Italy |
| 1905 | 1905 Russian Revolution | Nationwide | Russian Empire | General strike by workers in the industrial centres of the Russian Empire; suppressed by the Imperial Russian Army. |
| 1907 | Geneva general strike of 1907 | Geneva | Switzerland | |
| 1907 | New Orleans General Levee Strike of 1907 | New Orleans | United States | |
| 1909 | Tragic Week | Barcelona, Catalonia | Spain | |
| 1909 | Swedish General Strike | Nationwide | Sweden | Unsuccessful general strike called by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation |
| 1910 | Philadelphia general strike of 1910 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | Amalgamated Transit Union strike of Philadelphia Transportation Company trolley workers which expanded into a citywide American Federation of Labor general strike, eventually leading to wage increases |
| 1912 | Brisbane general strike of 1912 | Brisbane, Queensland | Australia | Caused when Australian Tramway Employees Union members were dismissed for wearing union badges; ended with Queensland Police Service attacks on labor marchers in Market Square leading to a public outcry and the strengthening of the Australian labour movement |
| 1912 | Zürich general strike of 1912 | Zürich | Switzerland | |
| 1917 | Australian general strike of 1917 | Nationwide | Australia | |
| 1917 | Spanish general strike of 1917 | Nationwide | Spain | |
| 1917 | 1917–1919 Brazil strike movement | Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil | Series of general strikes leading to an attempted anarchist uprising against the First Brazilian Republic. |
| 1917 | 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike | Minneapolis–Saint Paul | United States | Sympathetic general strike held on December 13 in support of streetcar workers who had been engaged in a labor dispute for the past several weeks. Involved about 10,000 people. |
| 1918 | Irish General Strike against Conscription | Ireland | United Kingdom | |
| 1918 | Swiss general strike of 1918 | Nationwide | Switzerland | |
| 1918 | Vancouver general strike | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada | General strike caused by the arrest of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, discontent over high living costs and low wages during World War I, and the October Revolution; ended with police attacks on union offices |
| 1919 | La Canadenca strike | Catalonia | Spain | |
| 1919 | Basel and Zürich general strike of 1919 | Basel and Zürich | Switzerland | |
| 1919 | Seattle General Strike | Seattle, Washington | United States | Industrial Workers of the World strike caused when the Emergency Fleet Corporation denied shipbuilders' demands for higher wages and intended to start a socialist revolution; contributed to the First Red Scare |
| 1919 | Winnipeg general strike | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Canada | General strike ending with repression by the North-West Mounted Police but leading to the growth of the Canadian democratic socialist and labor movements. |
| 1920 | Berlin general strike | Berlin | Germany | General strike encouraged by the government to resist an attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic |
| 1920 | Ruhr uprising | Ruhr | Germany | General strike in support of the Social Democratic government before expanding into a mass labor uprising to establish a "dictatorship of the proletariat"; suppressed by the Freikorps and the Reichswehr |
| 1920 | Romanian general strike of 1920 | Nationwide | Romania | |
| 1922 | Italian general strike of 1922 | Nationwide | Italy | Unsuccessful general strike intended to prevent a seizure of power by Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party |
| 1922 | Guayaquil general strike | Guayaquil | Ecuador |
| 1926 | United Kingdom general strike of 1926 | Nationwide | United Kingdom | 10-day general strike by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to prevent wage reductions and worsened conditions for coal miners; ended without concessions or violence. |
| 1926 | Sierra Leone railway strike of 1926 | Nationwide | Sierra Leone | |
| 1932 | Geneva general strike of 1932 | Geneva | Switzerland | |
| 1933 | 1933 Cuban general strike | Nationwide, initially in Havana | Cuba | The strike would originally begin as a strike for bus drivers in Havana and would later grow to other sectors and spread throughout the country. The strike led to the resignation of President Gerardo Machado. |
| 1933 | 1933 Ecuadorian general strike | Quito, Riobamba | Ecuador | |
| 1933 | French general strike of 1933 | Nationwide | France | |
| 1934 | Portuguese general strike of 1934 | Nationwide | Portugal | |
| 1934 | West Coast waterfront strike of 1934 | California, Oregon and Washington | United States | 83-day general strike in support of the International Longshoremen's Association during the Great Depression; the success of the strike contributed to the growth of industrial unionism under the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
| 1934 | Minneapolis general strike of 1934 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | United States | |
| 1934 | Auto-Lite strike | Toledo, Ohio | United States | |
| 1936 | French general strike of 1936 | Nationwide | France | |
| 1936 | Spanish Revolution of 1936 | Nationwide | Spain | |
| 1936 | 1936 Syrian general strike | Nationwide | Syria |
| 1936 | Palestinian general strike | Nationwide | Mandatory Palestine | General strike coordinated by the Arab Higher Committee against Jewish settlement in Palestine; eventually led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. |
| 1938 | French general strike of 1938 | Nationwide | France | |
| 1941 | February strike | Nationwide | Netherlands | |
| 1942 | Luxembourgish general strike of 1942 | Nationwide | Luxembourg | Campaign of passive resistance against the Nazi occupation during World War II. |
| 1945 | Nigerian general strike of 1945 | Nationwide | Nigeria | |
| 1946 | Royal Indian Navy mutiny | Nationwide | India | |
| 1946 | Oakland general strike of 1946 | Oakland, California | United States | Part of the 1945-46 strike wave in the United States during the U.S. demobilization after World War II and the abolition of National War Labor Board restrictions, which contributed to the passage of the Taft–Hartley Act restricting union activities and strike actions. |
| 1950 | Austrian general strikes of 1950 | Nationwide | Austria | |
| 1950 | Belgian general strike of 1950 | Nationwide | Belgium | Originated over opposition to King Leopold III of Belgium being returned to throne after his refusal to leave Belgium with the government-in-exile during the Nazi occupation; ended with his agreement to abdicate and allow his son Baudouin to take the throne |
| 1950 | Nairobi general strike of 1950 | Nairobi | Kenya | |
| 1950 | Positive Action campaign | Nationwide | Gold Coast | |
| 1952 | Casablanca Uprisings of 1952 | Casablanca | Morocco | |
| 1953 | Ceylonese Hartal of 1953 | Nationwide | Ceylon | |
| 1953 | Uprising of 1953 | Nationwide | East Germany | Originated as strike by East Berlin construction workers against Sovietization work quotas before expanding to a broad revolt against the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party's rule; repressed by the Soviet Army and the Kasernierte Volkspolizei |
| 1954 | General strike of 1954 | Nationwide | Honduras | |
| 1956 | Finnish general strike of 1956 | Nationwide | Finland | Successful Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions general strike for higher wages |
| 1960–61 | Belgian general strike of 1960–61 | Wallonia | Belgium | General Labour Federation of Belgium general strike against Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens's austerity policies, especially the Unitary Law; contributed to the growth of the Walloon Movement |
| 1966 | 1966 Burkina Faso general strike | Nationwide | Burkina Faso | |
| 1968 | French general strike of May 1968 | Nationwide | France | Student protests which escalated into a nationwide general strike which halted the French economy and continued with wildcat strikes after the Grenelle agreements granted higher wages, leading to fears of a revolution against Charles de Gaulle; ended with Gaullist counter-demonstrations and a vote of confidence from the National Assembly. |
| 1971-72 | Namibian contract workers general strike | Nationwide | Namibia | A general strike by workers under the contract labor system of what was then known as South West Africa (now Namibia) under the control of apartheid South Africa. The goal was to end the contract labor system due to slave like conditions and promote Namibian independence. It led to SWANLA being abolished & replaced with a less punitive but still repressive contract labor system. It also fueled the war for independence. |
| 1972 | Québec general strike of 1972 | Québec | Canada | |
| 1973 | Uruguay general strike of 1973 | Nationwide | Uruguay | Unsuccessful general strike against the 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, leading the civic-military dictatorship to ban trade unions. |
| 1974 | Ulster Workers' Council strike | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom | Successful Ulster loyalist general strike against the Sunningdale Agreement between Great Britain and Ireland, which would have attempted to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict by establishing a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and revived Council of Ireland |
| 1975 | Icelandic women's strike of 1975 | Nationwide | Iceland | |
| 1976 | Canadian general strike of 1976 | Nationwide | Canada | |
| 1976 | March 24 strike | Nationwide | People's Republic of the Congo | |
| 1978 | Iranian Revolution | Nationwide | Iran | |
| 1979 | 1979 New Zealand general strike | Nationwide | New Zealand | The Federation of Labour holds a 24-hour general strike held to protest the Third National Government's intervention in the general drivers' award. |
| 1984 | Uruguayan general strikes of 1984 | Nationwide | Uruguay | Successfully ended the Uruguayan dictatorships by forcing free elections to occur under the threat of continued rolling 24 hour general strikes if not allowed. |
| 1988 | Spanish general strike of 1988 | Nationwide | Spain | Workers' Commissions and Unión General de Trabajadores strike against the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party's policies under Prime Minister Felipe González |
| 1989 | Velvet Revolution | Nationwide | Czechoslovakia |
| 1990 | 1990 Moroccan general strike | Nationwide | Morocco | |
| 1992 | April 1992 general strike in Nepal | Nationwide | Nepal | |
| 1995 | French general strikes of 1995 | Nationwide | France | |
| 1998 | 1998 Danish general strike | Copenhagen | Denmark | |
| 1998 | 1998 Puerto Rican general strike | Nationwide | United States ( Puerto Rico) | 41-day general strike against the privatization of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, accompanied by some violence and sabotage. |
| 2000 | Cochabamba Water War | Cochabamba | Bolivia | |
| 2002–2003 | Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 | Nationwide | Venezuela | General strike against President Hugo Chávez including a large contingent of PDVSA workers. |
| 2003 | Bolivian gas conflict | Nationwide | Bolivia | |
| 2006 | Nepalese Revolution | Nationwide | Nepal | |
| 2007 | 2007 Guinea general strike | Nationwide | Guinea | Successful general strike forcing President Lansana Conté to resign. |
| 2007 | 2007 South African public servants' strike | Nationwide | South Africa | |
| 2007 | 2007 Swazi general strike | Nationwide | Eswatini | |
| 2008 | 2008 Egyptian general strike | Nationwide | Egypt | General strike including large contingent of textile workers during the 2007–2008 world food price crisis |
| 2009 | 2009 French Caribbean general strikes | Guadeloupe | France | |
| 2011 | 2011 Oakland general strike | Oakland, California | United States | Part of the Occupy Oakland demonstrations |
| 2012 | 2012 European general strike | Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Belgium | European Union | |
| 2016 | Indian general strike of 2016 | Nationwide | India | 24-hour general strike against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policies |
| 2017 | 2017 Brazilian general strike | Nationwide | Brazil | General strike against President Michel Temer's labor reform policies during the Brazilian economic crisis. |
| 2017 | 2017 Catalan general strike | Catalonia | Spain | General strike in support of the Catalan independence movement, accompanied by police repression by the Spanish government. |
| 2018 | 2018 Jordanian general strike | Nationwide | Jordan | Anti-austerity general strike |
| 2018–2019 | 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests | Nationwide | Iran | |
| 2018–present | School strike for climate | Global | Various | International movement of students skipping classes to support renewable energy and climate change mitigation |
| 2019 | 2019 Catalan general strike | Catalonia | Spain | |
| 2019 | 2019 Hong Kong general strike | Nationwide | Hong Kong | |
| 2019 | 2019 Indian General Strike | Nationwide | India | |
| 2019 | Sudanese Revolution | Nationwide | Sudan | |
| 2020 | 2020–2021 Belarusian protests | Nationwide | Belarus | |
| 2020 | 2020 United States essential workers general strike | Nationwide | United States | General strike involving essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2020 | Strike for Black Lives | Nationwide | United States | Mass walkout in support of the George Floyd protests |
| 2020 | 2020 Indian general strike | Nationwide | India | Preceded the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest |
| 2021 | 2021 Greek general strike | Nationwide | Greece | 24-hour general strike against a bill in the Hellenic Parliament that would give employers more power in regards to their employees. |
| 2021 | 2021 Myanmar strikes | Nationwide | Myanmar | |
| 2021 | Striketober | Nationwide | United States | |
| 2022 | 2022 Iranian general strike | Nationwide | Iran | 3 day general strike in response to protestors killed by Iranian security forces. |
| 2022 | 2022 Kazakh unrest | Nationwide | Kazakhstan | |
| 2024 | 2024 Nigerian general strike | Nationwide | Nigeria | General strike due to low minimum wage. |
| 2025 | 2024–2025 Serbian anti-corruption protests | Nationwide | Serbia | General strike due to political corruption and the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse |