World Labour Report, 1997-1998

World Labour Report 1997-98 Industrial relations, democracy and social stability

Table 4.1. Number of strikes and lockouts

	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995

Africa
Algeria	.	.	2 023	1 034	493	.	.	.
Botswana^a	.	.	.	.	.	.	7	6
Burundi	8	12	.	.	.	.	.	.
Central African Rep.	.	.	.	4	13	2	.	.
Egypt	4	2	4	1	0	3	5	8
Ghana	59	12	24	24	.	.	.	.
Guinea	.	.	2	8	4	.	.	.
Kenya	.	87	.	.	.	.	.	.
Malawi	4	2	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mali	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mauritius	.	.	8	6	9	4	9	7
Morocco^a	748	222	178	364	310	323	.	.
Namibia^a	.	.	24	8	23	5	7	.
Niger^a	.	6	24	3	.	.	.	.
Nigeria	185	56	126	125	187	107	137	.
Senegal^a	.	.	26	55	19	.	.	.
South Africa	.	389	885	600	789	784	.	.
Tunisia	.	391	564	466	496	513	425	.
Zambia	121	50	103	102	91	.	.	.
Zimbabwe	297	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Americas
Bahamas	.	.	0	0	0	.	.	.
Barbados	7	5	17	10	12	5	2	8
Bolivia	.	319	30	110	40	35	42	44
Brazil^a	81	843	.	.	.	.	576	.
Canada⁺	1 028	829	579	463	404	381	375	326
Chile^a	89	42	176	219	237	224	.	.
Colombia	.	87	514	234	638	292	.	.
Costa Rica	61	10	42	11	19	21	19	15
Ecuador	75	72	140	87	49	28	14	.
El Salvador	42	54	20	26	47	36	12	42
Guatemala	.	.	19	.	25	35	17	17
Guyana	333	718	329	307	258	475	468	422
Haiti	2 946	1 653	.	.	.	.	.	.
Honduras	37	14	93	23	43	.	.	47
Jamaica	.	.	65	.	.	.	.	.
Mexico^a,+	1 339	159	150	136	156	155	116	96
Nicaragua^a	.	.	55	133	85	.	.	.
Panama	.	.	0	0	1	0	1	1
Peru⁺	739	579	613	315	219	151	168	102
Suriname	17	9	6	2	7	27	.	.
Trinidad and Tobago	27	45	14	16	17	24	13	14
United States^b	187	54	44	40	35	35	45	31
Venezuela	195	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Asia
Australia	2 429	1 895	1 193	1 036	728	610	560	643
Bangladesh	104	95	5	3	11	11	2	5
Fiji	73	20	.	.	.	.	.	9
Hong Kong (before 1.7.97)⁺	37	3	15	5	11	10	3	9
India⁺	2 856	1 755	1 825	1 810	1 714	1 393	1 062	.
Indonesia	198	78	61	130	228	.	.	.
Japan⁺	1 133	627	284	310	263	252	230	.
Korea, Rep. of	206	265	322	234	235	144	121	88
Malaysia^a	38	25	17	23	17	18	15	13
Myanmar	.	.	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	360	383	127	68	47	50	60	61
Pakistan	59	58	.	.	.	.	25	24
Papua New Guinea	53	.	13	4	11	10	.	.
Philippines^b	62	371	183	182	136	122	93	94
Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka⁺	227	145	116	130	103	49	233	183
Thailand	18	4	9	14	18	14	8	.

Europe
Austria	9	4	9	9	3	3	0	1
Azerbaijan	.	.	230	.	.	.	.	.
Belarus	.	.	19	47	3	2	3	0
Belgium⁺	.	.	33	62	49	28	30	46
Cyprus	38	30	20	31	27	24	32	.
Czech Rep.	.	.	.	1	2	2	3	2
Denmark⁺	225	820	232	203	151	218	240	424
Finland	2 182	833	450	270	165	125	171	112
France⁺	2 118	1 901	1 529	1 318	1 330	1 351	1 671	.
Germany	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Greece	726	453	480	161	824	596	215	110
Hungary⁺	.	.	.	3	4	5	4	7
Iceland	14	13	1	7	4	2	11	16
Ireland^b,c	130	116	49	54	38	46	28	34
Israel^c	84	131	117	77	114	73	75	.
Italy	2 238	1 341	1 094	791	903	1 054	861	545
Luxembourg	.	0	1	0	0	0	.	.
Moldova, Rep. of⁺	.	.	0	0	701	1	0	0
Netherlands	22	45	29	28	23	12	17	14
Norway^b	35	11	15	4	16	12	20	11
Poland	.	.	.	.	.	7 443	429	42
Portugal^{a, +}	269	476	271	262	409	230	300	.
Romania^a	.	.	.	.	9	30	33	27
Russian Fed.^b	.	.	260	1 755	6 273	264	514	8 856
Slovakia	.	.	.	21	5	1	1	0
Spain	2 103	1 092	1 312	1 645	1 360	1 209	908	883
Sweden⁺	212	160	126	23	20	33	.	.
Switzerland^b	5	3	2	1	3	0	8	2
Turkey	.	.	458	398	98	49	36	120
Ukraine	.	.	260	239	2 239	462	.	.
United Kingdom	.	.	.	.	.	.	205	235
^a Strikes only. ^b Excl. workstoppages lasting less than one day. ^c Excl. workstoppages in which less than 10 workdays not worked. ⁺ Refer to Technical Notes.

Updated by MB. Approved by PD. Last Updated 1 Nov 2002.