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A number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred in 1977.

Background

A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor working conditions. Strikes can also occur to demonstrate solidarity with workers in other workplaces or pressure governments to change policies.

Timeline

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2024)

Continuing strikes from 1976

• Grunwick dispute
• 1976–77 Palestinian prisoners' protests, series of protests and strikes by Palestinians in Israeli custody.
• 1975–80 Sonacotra rent strike, rent strike by immigrant workers in France.

January

February

• 1977 British Leyland strike, 4-week strike by British Leyland toolmakers.
• 1977 Malta bread strike

March

• 1977 Atlanta sanitation strike, strike by santiation workers in Atlanta, United States, over wages.

April

• 1977 Australian air traffic controllers' strike
• Coors strike and boycott
• 1977 Singapore Metal Box Workers Union strike

May

• 1977–78 Indonesia student protests, including strikes, against the dictatorship of Suharto.
• 1977–79 Wien Air Alaska strike, 22-month strike by Wien Air Alaska pilots.

June

• 1977 Chicago gravediggers' strike, 55-day strike by cemetery workers in Chicago, United States.
• 1977 Chilean hunger strike, strike by relatives of detainees disappeared by the Military dictatorship of Chile held in the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

July

• 1977 Peruvian general strike, es

August

• 1977 Aruba general strike, 1-week general strike in Aruba for independence from the Netherlands Antilles.
• 1977 Canadian air traffic controllers' strike
• Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977, strike by coal miners in the Jiu Valley, Socialist Republic of Romania.
• 1977 Latrobe Valley power strike, strike by electrical workers in the Latrobe Valley, Australia.
• 1977 Spanish hotel strike

September

• 1977 UK bread strike, strike by bakery workers in the United Kingdom.

October

• 1977 Argentina rail strike
• Strike by Aztra engenho workers in Ecuador, resulting in the Aztra massacre.
• 1977–78 Lockheed strike, 12-week strike by Lockheed Corporation workers in the United States.
• 1977 United States longshoremen strike, organised by the International Longshoremen's Association.

November

• 1977–78 British firemen's strike, the first nationwide strike by firefighters in the United Kingdom, over wages.

December

• 1977 TAP Air Portugal strike, 8-day strike by TAP Air Portugal pilots over wages.
• UMW Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978, 110-day nationwide strike by coal miners in the United States.
• Willmar 8, strike by eight women bank workers in Willmar, Minnesota over discrimination.

References

1. "360 Arab Inmates in Ashkelon Prison Stage Hunger Strike". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 6 January 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
2. "Israelis Seize More Arabs As Protests Expand". The New York Times. 9 March 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
3. "Strike of Arab Prisoners in Israel". Journal of Palestine Studies. 7 (1): 169–171. 1 September 1977. doi:10.2307/2536538. JSTOR 2536538. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
4. Chomsky, Noam (17 March 1977). "Protest from Israel". New York Review of Books. 24 (4). Retrieved 21 November 2024.
5. Dedieu, Jean-Philippe; Mbodj-Pouye, Aissatou (28 September 2015). "The first collective protest of black African migrants in postcolonial France (1960–1975): a struggle for housing and rights". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39 (6): 958–975. doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1081964. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
6. "The Leyland Toolroom Strike: Some Lessons". International Socialism. 1 April 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
7. "BRITAIN: Back to Work at Leyland". Time Magazine. 28 March 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
8. "Leyland's Strike Ends as Workers Faced Dismissal". The New York Times. 18 March 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
9. "Malta's bread strike". BBC World Service. 29 December 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
10. Withington, David (9 May 2021). "From the Archives, 1977: Air strike strands thousands overseas". The Age. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
11. "Air strike to go on as crisis talks collapse". The Business Times. 11 May 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
12. Butterfield, Fox (13 May 1977). "Australian Leader Threatens to Seek An Anti-Strike Bill". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
13. "Metal Box union asks for intervention by Labour Ministry". The Straits Times. 10 April 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
14. "Union circles are sceptical about legality of M. Box strike". The Straits Times. 27 May 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
15. "White Book of the 1978 Students' Struggle". Student Council of the Bandung Institute of Technology. 1 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
16. "III. THE SOEHARTO LEGACY ON CAMPUS: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW". Human Rights Watch. 1 August 1998. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
17. "Indonesia's Student Protesters Emphasize Their Loyalty". The New York Times. 4 April 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
18. "Students in Bandung un study strike". New Nation. 12 February 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
19. "Alaska Pilot Strike Ends". The New York Times. 4 March 1979. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
20. "Cemetery Workers End Strike". The New York Times. 3 August 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
21. Wicker, Tom (24 June 1977). "A Small Gain In Chile". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
22. Salgado, Alfonso (13 December 2017). "Communism and human rights in Pinochet's Chile: the 1977 hunger strike against forced disappearance". Cold War History. 18 (2): 169–186. doi:10.1080/14682745.2017.1404988. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
23. "Six Killed in Peru As Strike Protests Austerity Program". The New York Times. 20 July 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
24. "Paros de la Confederación Campesina del Perú (1977)". Confederación Campesina del Perú. 1 December 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
25. "Canada's Lower House Orders Air Controllers to End Strike". The New York Times. 10 August 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. "Latrobe Valley's 1977 power strike". Solidarity. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
29. "STORY BEHIND THE POWER STRIKE". The Australian Women's Weekly. 16 November 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
30. "Hotel Strike in Spain". Washington Post. 14 August 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
31. "POLICE CLASH WITH HOTEL STRIKERS". The Straits Times. 17 August 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
32. "BRITISH BREAD SHORT AGE EASES IN 8-DAY-OLD STRIKE". The New York Times. 19 September 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
33. "A look back at chaos caused by 1977 bakery workers' strike: Queuing in droves for loaves". The Oxford Mail. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
34. "Argentine Rail Strike Ends". The New York Times. 5 November 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
35. "15,000 Strike at 3 Lockheed Plants". The New York Times. 11 October 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
36. "Lockheed Walkout Ends Bitterly At Plants in Southern California". The New York Times. 4 January 1978. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
37. "Dock Workers Accept a New Pact And Return From 60-Day Walkout". The New York Times. 30 November 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
38. Rudolph, Michael (10 September 2024). "Half a century later, ILA returns to strike mode". FreightWaves. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
39. "1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim". BBC News. 14 November 1977. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
40. "End of pay strike, 16 January 1978". Fire Brigades Union. 3 November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
41. "Fire strike! It's 40 years since army Green Goddesses fought our blazes". Leicester Mercury. 14 November 1977. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
42. "Portuguese Pilots End Strike". The New York Times. 31 December 1977. Retrieved 21 November 2024.

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