Throughout the history of Australia, there have been a number of strikes, labour disputes, student strikes, hunger strikes and other industrial actions.
19th century
edit1890s
edit- 1890 Australian maritime dispute
- 1891 Australian shearers' strike
- 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, 16-week strike by miners in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
20th century
edit1910s
edit- 1912 Brisbane general strike, general strike in Brisbane, Queensland, following the firing of workers for wearing union badges at work.
- 1917 Australian general strike
- Broken Hill mining strike, from 1919 to 1920 by miners in Broken Hill, New South Wales, over safety conditions.
- 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot
1920s
edit- 1923 Victorian police strike, police strike in Melbourne, Victoria, over the use of labour spies.
- 1929 Australian timber workers' strike
1930s
edit- 1938 Dalfram dispute, strike by dockworkers in Port Kembla, New South Wales, to prevent the export of pig iron to Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1940s
edit- Strikes by dockworkers from 1945 to 1949 to prevent Dutch vessels from sailing to Indonesia during the Indonesian War of Independence, being nicknamed the Black Armada.
- Pilbara strike, from 1946 to 1949.
- 1946 Queensland meatworkers' strike[1][2]
- 1948 Queensland railway strike, 9-week strike by railway workshop workers in Queensland.
- 1949 Australian coal strike
1960s
edit- 1964 Mount Isa Mines strike, 8-month industrial dispute at the Mount Isa Mines, Queensland, over wages.
- Wave Hill walk-off
1970s
edit- 1973 ABC strike, strike by women script assistants at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[3][4]
- 1973 Broadmeadows Ford strike, strike at the Broadmeadows Assembly Plant.[5][6]
- 1973 ICI Botany strike, strike by Imperial Chemical Industries workers in Botany Bay.[7]
- 1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike, strike by stripperes in Sydney, New South Wales, over wages and working conditions.
- 1973 Melbourne gravediggers' strike, 12-day strike by cemetery workers in Melbourne.[8]
- 1973 Mount Newman strike, 17-day strike by miners in Newman, Western Australia.[9]
- 1973 Revlon strike, strike by Revlon cosmetics workers in Rydalmere, New South Wales, over changes in working conditions meant to speed up production.[10][11]
- 1973 Sydney Airport strike, 5-week strike by communications workers at Sydney Airport.[12][13]
- 1973 Sydney Philosophy strike, strike by University of Sydney Department of Philosophy students demanding the introduction of a women's studies course.[14][15]
- 1973 Wee Waa strike, strike by Aboriginal cotton workers in Wee Waa, New South Wales.[16][17]
- 1975 Melbourne printers' strike[18][19]
- 1976 Warilla High School strike, 4-week strike by Warilla High School teachers.[20][21][22]
- 1977 Australian air traffic controllers' strike[23][24][25]
- 1977 Latrobe Valley power strike, strike by electrical workers in the Latrobe Valley.[26][27][28][29]
1980s
edit- 1981 Qantas strike, by Qantas staff.[30][31]
- 1982 Queensland general strike, general strike in Queensland, demanding a 38-hour working week.[32][33]
- Mudginberri dispute, from 1983 to 1985.
- Wide Comb dispute, in 1983.
- Dollar Sweets dispute, in 1985.
- SEQEB strike of Queensland, 1985
1990s
edit- 1992 APPM Dispute, 3-week strike at an Associated Pulp and Paper mill in Burnie.[34][35][36]
- 1994 Tomago aluminium strike, 24-day strike at the Tomago aluminium smelter over wages.[37][38]
- Weipa Dispute, 6-week strike in 1995 at the Weipa bauxite mine, Queensland, over discrimination against unionised workers.
- 1997 Curragh miners' strike, 15-week strike by Curragh coal mine miners.[39][40]
21st century
edit2010s
edit- 2015 Australia women's national soccer team strike, 2-month strike by Australia women's national soccer team players over wages and working conditions.
- 2018 Alcoa strike, by Alcoa workers in Australia, the first in 8 years.[41]
2020s
edit- 2023 Chevron Australia strike - strike at the three liquefied natural gas facilities of the Chevron Corporation in Australia, representing around 5% of global LNG production;[42][43]
- 2024 ASC strikes, by ASC Pty Ltd workers in Australia.[44]
References
edit- ^ "Workers' Gains in Big Queensland Struggle". Tribune. 26 July 1946.
- ^ Stewart, Gordon; Bowden, Bradley (8 November 2020). "The 1946 Meat Strike in Queensland: A Regional Perspective". International Journal of Employment Studies. 12 (1): 19–42.
- ^ Baker, Jeannine; Connors, Jane (2020). "'Glorified typists' in no-man's land: The ABC script assistants' strike of 1973". Women's History Review. 29 (5): 841–859. doi:10.1080/09612025.2019.1703539.
- ^ "ABC strike puts live programs off air". Canberra Times. 28 April 1973.
- ^ Tracy, Constance Lever (2020). "A new Australian working class leadership: The case of Ford Broadmeadows". Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia. pp. 123–143. doi:10.4324/9781003115540-8. ISBN 978-1-003-11554-0.
- ^ "1973: Broadmeadows Ford workers' strike". LibCom. 10 September 2006. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Chemical workers action". Tribune. 13 March 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Strike ends". The Canberra Times. 15 February 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Strike ends". The Canberra Times. 14 November 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Revlon cosmetics women on strike". Tribune. 29 May 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "REVLON FIGHT AT NEW STAGE". Tribune. 5 June 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "AUSSIE AIR TRAFFIC IN CHAOS". The Straits Times. 3 October 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "That airport shutdown". Tribune. 6 November 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Clark, Maddie (16 August 2021). "The strike that won a feminist philosophy department". Honi Soit. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/HUL/article/view/5336
- ^ "BLACK WORKERS STRIKE AT WEE WAA". Tribune. 16 January 1973. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Humphreys, Jordan (5 April 2022). "When Black Power came to Wee Waa: the 1973 cotton chippers' strike". Red Flag. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Heekeren, Margaret (1 January 2014). "STRIKES (JOURNALISTS' AND PRINTERS')". A Companion to the Australian Media. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ^ "MELBOURNE PRINTERS STRIKE". Tribune. 26 August 1975. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ^ "Teachers make gains". Tribune. 17 March 1976. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ Bradley, Jim (14 February 2001). "Warilla teachers' strike remembered". Green Left. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ Ashbolt, A. (1 January 2006). "The Warilla High School Strike: a veritable class struggle". Illawarra Unity. S2CID 159261155. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ Withington, David (9 May 2021). "From the Archives, 1977: Air strike strands thousands overseas". The Age. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "Air strike to go on as crisis talks collapse". The Business Times. 11 May 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Butterfield, Fox (13 May 1977). "Australian Leader Threatens to Seek An Anti-Strike Bill". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Benson, John William (1 June 1979). "The 1977 Latrobe Valley SECV Maintenance Workers' Strike". Journal of Industrial Relations. 21 (2): 217–228. doi:10.1177/002218567902100205. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Steel, Kathryn M. (1 December 2013). "Point of View: A Significant Regional Industrial Dispute from a Novel Perspective". Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "Latrobe Valley's 1977 power strike". Solidarity. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "STORY BEHIND THE POWER STRIKE". The Australian Women's Weekly. 16 November 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "Qantas Ground Staff Strike". The New York Times. 24 February 1981. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ Dennis, C. Gregory (7 April 1981). "Qantas flies, but Australian airline-union dispute lingers". CS Monitor. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ Thomas, Amy (12 October 2012). "Defying the law: the Queensland 1982 general strike". Solidarity. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "What do you remember about 1982?". 31 December 2012.
- ^ Baker, David (2 October 1999). "Community Police Peacekeeping Amidst Bitter and Divisive Industrial Confrontation: The 1992 APPM Dispute at Burnie". Labour & Community. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ Tierney, Robert (1 December 1999). "Class Struggle and the "Community of Families": The 1992 Dispute at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills". Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ Jamieson, Ian (24 June 1992). "APPM: after the strike". Green Left. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ Hopkinson, Shane (14 September 1994). "Tomago strike ends". Green Left. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ "Aluminium firm despite end of strike". The Business Times. 6 September 1994. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Glenning, Paul (27 August 1997). "Curragh miners claim victory". Green Left. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ Long, Stepphen (22 August 1997). "AIRC intervenes in coal strike". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ "Behind the Picket Line – Alcoa Strike 2018". Australian Workers' Union. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ McGuirk, Rob (22 September 2023). "Labor unions say they will end strike actions at Chevron's three LNG plants in Australia". AP News. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ Chow, Emily (8 September 2023). "Explainer: Chevron Australia LNG workers start strike. What happens now?". Reuters. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ Jackson, Lewis (7 August 2024). "Australian state-owned sub builder hit by more strikes at crucial shipyard". Reuters. Retrieved 21 September 2024.