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Somebody PLEASE give the Yle News in English team an award for the punny headlines they keep writing
Parts of the capital looked like a ghost town on Thursday due to a strike by transport workers.
(but also, setting up photos from almost the exact same location at almost the exact same time on two days must have taken some planning.)
Terminal workers strike for first contract: 1970
A Trailways terminal employee pickets the facility at 12th and New York Avenue NW November 11, 1970 after the union called a strike to obtain a first contract.
The terminal employees, including ticket agents, clerks and baggage handlers were organized five months previously into Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1112.
The main issue in the strike was over a union security clause that would have required all workers in the unit to join the unit or pay an agency fee. The union had signed-up 86 of the 92 workers.
Operations were not significantly affected as supervisors filled in and drivers were under a separate contract with a no-strike clause.
The strike lasted until November 14th when workers gave up on the issue of obtaining a union shop.
The Washington Star quoted a union representative as saying the settlement was a “reasonably good economic package” and added that the workers dropped their union shop demand after “threatening” letters were sent to strikers.”
Photo by Pete Copeland. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post. Source.
On August 31, 1920, when this cartoon appeared on the front page of the Daily News, around 1,000 employees of Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT) had been on strike for weeks. The cartoonist satirized the impact of the strike on New Yorkers. Unfortunately, I could not find out the name of the cartoonist.
Update: The cartoonist was Sidney Joseph Greene of the the New York Evening Telegram and The Evening Post. Thanks, @keith-becoming-kay and @dunkelzahn!
NY Daily News via NY1920
"TRAFFIC MANAGER RUNNING TROLLEY DURING STRIKE," Winnipeg Tribune. May 10, 1913. Page 1 & 12. --- Employees of Port Arthur and Fort William Street Car Line Are Out ---- ONLY TWO CARS BEING OPERATED ---- Manager of System and Man Who Did Not Respond to Strike Call Took First One Over Line Men Want More Pay and Better Conditions ---- Fort William, Ont., May 10 - Eighty-five conductors and motormen, comprising nearly the entire staff of conductors and motormen manning the Port Arthur and Fort William street cars are out on strike today. The strike was staged at five o'clock this morning, when the ultimatum went out from headquarters of the local street railwaymen's union that the cars were not to be manned. Though It came with considerable suddenness, the strike has not had the serious results that may have bean anticipated, nor does the general public seem inclined to take it seriously.
Didn't Tie Up System The calling of the strike did not result in completely tying up the railway. Two cars, one of them with trailer attached, were running all morning over the entire system. The early car taken out was manned by Manager M. Robinson, and one of the men who refused to respond to the strike call. Traffic Manager Morton took charge of the crank on another car which was put on the run about nine o'clock. The road officials seemed to take the strike more in the light of a joke.
Still Running "Everything is running smoothly enough considering what has happened," lightly replied Traffic Manager Morton between twists of the crank of the car he was operating. "Of course we cannot expect to handle all the traffic between the two cities, but there has at least been no let up in the service we are still running"
Thinks Men Unreasonable. "I don't think the men's demands are reasonable," he added. "If they were reasonable, I wouldn't feel ike doing what I am." That was all Mr. Morton cared to say on the subject. The officials, however, all express confidence that the road will be running as well as ever next week with a new staff of conductors and motormen in charge.
Strikers Behaving The striking conductors and motormen behaved in very orderly fashion this morning. There were no attempts to impede traffic and beyond yelling a few unseemly epithets at the men who took out the early cars, they made no attempt at demonstration of any sort. The officials of the road are authority for the statement that the strikers at tempted and did persuade some of the non-union employees not to go to work this morning, but as to whether any threats were made or not, is not definitely known.
Port Arthur inconvenienced Port Arthur, May 10 - Practically every street car in the two cities stopped running at five o'clock this morning, owing to a declaration of the men at midnight last night to strike for a raise in wages of from four to six cents an hour and new working conditions. There have, so far, been no disorders, but the inconveniences of a suspended car service is already being felt to large extent.
Commissioner's Statement I. L. Matthews, of Port Arthur, the chairman of the board of commissioners, has issued a statement that the company intend to stand pat and will have the cars in full operation on Monday with an entire new staff of conductors and motormen.
The employees of the street railway system of the Twin Cities presented to the meeting a proposed new agreement which included a schedule of increased wages as follows:
For the first six months that 21 cents an hour be increased to 24 cents an hour. Second six months from 24 cents to 26 cents. Third six months from 26 cents to 18 cents and the fourth six months from 28 to 30 cents an hour. The men also ask that Morris Enright and Stephen Muldoon be given back their situations as the board's judgment of the cases was not right, but that they are willing to further consider the case of Muldoon if the board are able to substantiate the grievances against him.
Want Others Dismissed The agreement also contained a clause to the effect that any non-union men employed by the board should be dismissed, stipulating further that there must be given non-union men time to join the union and if not joined within that period they be dismissed, and that nine and a half hours a day be given them, the hours to run consecutively and that overtime be paid for every fraction of an hour worked after nine and a half hours. They also request that wages be paid every fortnight and that wages for nine and a half hours be given in the case where they were unable to put in full time.
The transit supervisors are striking where I live.
On one hand, fuck 'em, you shouldn't be allowed to hold poor people hostage. Or insist that people use public transit to get around, instead of personal vehicles, and then not provide the service.
On the other hand, we all fucking know the supervisors are going to eventually get what they want in the end, and the cost will then be passed onto the users as a "rising cost" thing, like the exec raises. So why not end the bullshit, give 'em want they want and let us move on with our lives.
“STRIKE PARALYSES TRAFFIC IN BERLIN,” Montreal Star. November 3, 1932. Page 1. ---- Socialist Unionists Answer Call of Communists and Hitlerites ---- BERLIN, Nov. 3. -(UP) — Severe measure to break a strike of operators of Berlin’s bus subway, streetcar, and elevated services were authorised today by Reich commissioner Hans Brecht, who declared the strike illegal. Scores of strikers were arrested in clashes with police. --- BERLIN, Nov. 3— (UP)— Berlin traffic was tied up today by a strike which forced cessation of services on bus, subway, and elevated lines.
Many thousands of workers were forced to walk for miles in a chill drizzle, delating the opening of business by two to three hours.
Armed police patrols were stationed at strategic points on important streets to prevent demonstrations by the strikers. Motor trucks filled with police raced through the city with sirens wide open. Nine men were arrested.
The strike was in protest against a proposed wags reduction of two pfennings (about 1/2 a cent) an hour. Strikers forced the discontinuation of three tram lines not participating in the walkout, making passengers descend in the rain, blocking switches and pulling trolley-wire connections. One car was demolished within a block of police headquarter.
Taxicab-drivers who have been unable to earn a bare living, enjoyed sudden prosperity. Police rules permitting them to operate for only eight hours a day were abrogated, permitting the operation of more than 10,000 cabs recently placed on a part-time basis. Hundreds of ancient private cars also were pressed into extra service as cheap taxicabs, resulting in a traffic jam at many points.
Thousands who withdrew their cars from service for the winter at the end of October to avoid the high taxes in gasoline, resuming driving today.
Negotiations between the transit men and city officials were dead-locked. The strike was regarded as showing a significant rebellion among the workers involved. Although most of the 21,000 strikers belong to Socialist trade unions, they followed the summons of Communist and Hitlerite groups against the explicit advice of their own organizations.
“Grève des taxis.” Agence Meurisse, August 28, 1919. Photographic negative, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Meurisse, 75109.
WNYC FM 94 Transit Strike Pin. The 1980 New York City transit strike in New York City (often referred to as the Subway strike) was the first work stoppage at the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the New York MTA) since 1966. 34,000 members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for contracted workers. All subway and bus lines in The Five Boroughs were brought to a complete standstill for ten days, during which the city lost an approximated $2 million a day in taxes and another $1 million a day in overtime expenses for city employees.
