Sentence examples for docks strike from inspiring English sources

The 1970 docks strike was the first of a series of increasingly effective stoppages during the Heath administration, which culminated in the miners' strike of 1974, the three-day week and the Tories' electoral defeat.

(AP) INDIA: NATIONAL DOCK STRIKE Nearly 100,000 workers went on strike for higher wages at 11 major ports in India's first nationwide dock strike in a decade.

The 1889 great dock strike was a dispute over working conditions in London's East End.

Sir Albert Rollit, the arbitrator in the London dock strike, is expected to give his award to-day [Aug.

On June 14th it looked as if the threatened national dock strike (the first in 44 years) had been averted.

Manning won general public regard for his social concern and his successful intervention in the 1889 London dock strike.

It… On June 14th it looked as if the threatened national dock strike (the first in 44 years) had been averted.

Like many consumer stocks, Mattel dipped last fall on fears that the West Coast dock strike would ruin holiday sales.

A separate contingency plan, codenamed Operation Halberd, to use troops in the event of a dock strike, had also been drawn up.

He reminded Thatcher that troops had not been used to break a dock strike since 1950 and could bring more severe picketing and law-and-order problems.

With Benjamin Tillett and Tom Mann, Burns was a dominant figure in the great London dock strike of 1889, which brought casual and unskilled labourers into trade unions.