19 March 1873
The Great Welsh iron strike ends – this terrible strike, which has done as much injury to the people and trade of this district as a civil war, is practically over.
1 February 1919
The fight for a shorter working week – the Government have declined to interfere in the labour deadlock, and the result has been to increase the tension at Belfast and on the Clyde, where rioting has taken place.
May 1926
The 1926 General Strike. The print unions were called to join the General Strike, effectively silencing the press. The GNM Archive looks at how newspapers and printers were central to the strike and the Guardian’s response, which included setting up its own company union.
24 May 1966
Docks strike – a state of emergency is proclaimed as a strike by the National Union of Seamen threatens international trade in Britain’s ports.
15 June 1968
Ford sewing machinists demand equal pay – a strike by 187 women at Ford’s Dagenham plant is declared official.
17 July 1970
National dock strike – with dockers giving almost total support to industrial action, the government decides to invoke the Emergency Powers Act of 1920.
23 January 1979
The Winter of Discontent – a phenomenally successful day of action by 1.5 million council, health service, and university manual workers has given Britain a taste of things to come as the public service unions pursue their demands.
1 December 1984
The coal strike – in a serious escalation of the miners’ dispute, a taxi driver is killed by striking miners. A concrete block thrown from an overhead motorway bridge hits his car as he was taking a working miner to Merthyr Vale colliery.
30 November 2011
Placards at the public sector strike protests - in pictures. Public sector workers have taken part in marches throughout the country as part of a nationwide strike over pension reforms.
3 March 2015
Picture gallery – we look back at some of the strike action covered in the Guardian and the Observer over the last 70 years.
3 June 2017
The strange death of strikes in Britain – figures show walkouts are at near-record lows despite employment being at a record high.
