On March 15, 1983, employees of SEPTA Regional Rail, represented by 12 different labor unions, went on strike following the breakdown in negotiations over...
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The SEPTA Regional Rail system (reporting marks SEPA, SPAX) is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area....
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Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus...
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Wilmington/Newark Line (redirect from SEPTA R2 Newark)
The Wilmington/Newark Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system in the Philadelphia area. The line serves southeastern Pennsylvania...
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SEPTA Metro is an urban rail transit network in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation...
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Claymont station (redirect from Claymont station (SEPTA Regional Rail))
Pennsylvania Railroad, burned down on July 25, 1981. When SEPTA took over service from Conrail on January 1, 1983, Claymont station was closed as service in Delaware...
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union strike at company since 1983". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. November 15, 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015. 40,000 Verizon Workers Go On Strike url=http://www...
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Pullman cars on railroads. The over-the-rail Pullman employees (such as conductors and porters) did not go on strike. Debs and the ARU called a massive boycott...
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Metro-North Railroad (redirect from Commuter Rail (MNRR))
(March 27, 1983). "Many losers in rail strike". Sunday Journal-News. Retrieved June 3, 2018. "Metro-North fears loss of ridership from strike". The Journal-News...
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2023, the system had a ridership of 39,730,300. Pittsburgh Regional Transit's bus, light rail and funicular system covers Allegheny County. On some longer-distance...
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Teach the Rail Strike of 1877" OAH Magazine of History (1999) 13#w pp 38–47. doi:10.2307/25163309 JSTOR 25163300 Lloyd, John P. "The strike wave of 1877"...
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The Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike involving more than 200,000 workers. Beginning on March 1, 1886, railroad workers...
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"go for" the Knights of Labor (KOL) in the wake of that union's strikes upon other rail lines in that year. The company formally served notice on its workers...
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construct light rail cars that would replace the SLRV's in both San Francisco and Boston (see Replacements and retirement section). SEPTA of Philadelphia...
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US strikes by size 1922 UMW General coal strike 1922 New England textile strike Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Railroad strike of 1946 History of rail transport...
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MARC, SEPTA, and New Jersey Transit between 1983 and 1987 11 EMD GP9 locomotives acquired from the Burlington Northern Railroad and SEMTA in 1983–1986...
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The New York City Harbor strike started on January 9, 1919. It involved 15,000–16,000 workers striking after it was called by the executive committee of...
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Philadelphia Transportation Company (category Passenger rail transportation in Pennsylvania)
predecessor of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). PTC was established on January 1, 1940, by the merger of the PRT and several...
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City, Victory, and Frontier Divisions walked off the job. SEPTA services on the regional rail division continue according to contingency plans, and all...
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The United Parcel Service strike of 1997, led by International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) President Ron Carey, started on August 4, 1997, and involved...
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Philadelphia (redirect from Philadelphia Regional Rail)
March 2, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2018. "SEPTA Airport Line Regional Rail Schedule". septa.org. SEPTA. Retrieved January 29, 2018. "William Penn Plans...
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Streetcars in North America (category Passenger rail transportation in North America)
Rail Transit Lines Opened From 1980" (PDF). publictransit.us. pp. 37–40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-02. "SEPTA...
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Coast waterfront strike was the first coast-wide strike of longshore workers on the Pacific Coast of the United States. The strike was a major defeat...
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abandoned rail cars were set on fire. The Buffalo police, sympathetic to the workers' cause, refused to help the railroads break the strike. On August...
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During the strike wave of 1945–46, a strike of almost 3,500 tugboat workers in New York City occurred on Monday, February 1, 1946. The expectations of...
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The 1985 Pan Am strike was a labor strike involving several thousand workers, all members of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), at Pan American...
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The Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911 was a labor action in the United States of a number of railroad workers unions against the Illinois Central...
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The Camp Dump strike was a labor dispute that began on March 9, 1882 at the Burlington Yards in Omaha, Nebraska. The event pitted state militia against...
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The 2020 Port of Montreal strike began at 7:00 AM on August 10, 2020, after Local 375 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (Syndicat des débardeurs...
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Battle of Ballantyne Pier (category 1935 labor disputes and strikes)
occurred in Ballantyne Pier during a docker's strike in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 1935. The strike can be traced back to 1912 when the International...
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