World Labour Report, 1997-1998

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

Table 4.2. Workers involved in strikes and lockouts (thousands)

	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995

Africa
Algeria	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Botswana^a,b	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	2
Burundi	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Central African Rep.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Egypt^b	0	3	2	1	0	1	5	.
Ghana	70	3	7	6	.	.	.	.
Guinea	.	.	45	4	1	.	.	.
Kenya	.	17	.	.	.	.	.	.
Malawi	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mali	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mauritius^b	7	15	2	0	2	0	1	0
Morocco^a	67	40	21	41	31	46	.	.
Namibia^a,b	.	.	6	1	5	4	.	.
Niger^a	.	4	1	2	.	.	.	.
Nigeria^b	142	19	276	270	262	1 113	1 998	.
Senegal^a	.	.	4	4	4	.	.	.
South Africa^b	.	240	341	172	138	159	.	.
Tunisia^b	.	96	133	49	48	44	40	.
Zambia	28	24	52	32	26	.	.	.
Zimbabwe	91	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Americas
Bahamas	.	.	0	0	0	.	.	.
Barbados	2	1	1	1	5	0	0	0
Bolivia	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Brazil^a,b	81	5 431	14 243	16 805	3 497	.	3 806	.
Canada^{b, +}	441	162	270	253	150	102	81	124
Chile^a,b	30	9	25	46	25	25	.	.
Colombia⁺	.	10	42	18	24	10	.	.
Costa Rica	25	11	26	4	42	43	11	74
Ecuador	16	9	24	10	8	3	2	.
El Salvador⁺	12	30	4	4	127	105	4	58
Guatemala	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Guyana^b	41	94	61	98	69	53	74	38
Haiti	4	3	.	.	.	.	.	.
Honduras	34	1	46	64	.	.	.	.
Jamaica	.	.	10	.	.	.	.	.
Mexico^a	43	57	49	65	91	32	27	12
Nicaragua^a	.	.	2	29	21	.	.	.
Panama^b	18	7	0	0	0	0	1	1
Peru⁺	481	238	258	181	115	41	63	28
Suriname	3	4	1	1	2	3	.	.
Trinidad and Tobago	8	7	4	3	6	12	2	6
United States^{c, +}	795	324	185	392	364	182	322	192
Venezuela	68	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Asia
Australia	1 173	571	730	1 182	872	490	265	344
Bangladesh	164	198	15	0	6	6	6	.
Fiji^b	3	6	3	1	2	3	0	.
Hong Kong (before 1.7.97)^{b, +}	5	0	1	0	2	1	0	1
India⁺	1 900	1 079	1 308	1 342	1 253	954	763	.
Indonesia	22	21	31	65	228	.	.	.
Japan^{b, +}	563	123	84	53	109	64	49	.
Korea, Rep. of^b	49	29	134	175	105	109	104	50
Malaysia^a	5	9	99	4	6	2	2	2
Myanmar	.	.	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	128	182	44	51	23	20	15	31
Pakistan	25	36	62	116	73	.	15	11
Papua New Guinea	11	.	6	1	2	2	.	.
Philippines^{b, c}	21	111	68	55	48	35	49	54
Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka^{b, +}	79	55	66	64	50	8	72	63
Thailand	3	1	4	10	4	5	4	.

Europe
Austria^b	24	36	5	93	18	7	0	0
Azerbaijan	.	.	341	.	.	.	.	.
Belarus	.	.	11	63	2	0	3	0
Belgium^{b, +}	.	.	10	11	22	9	6	13
Cyprus	50	8	8	5	50	17	15	.
Czech Rep.	.	.	.	5	20	3	67	2
Denmark⁺	62	581	37	38	33	59	37	124
Finland	407	170	207	128	103	23	71	127
France⁺	501	23	19	19	16	20	.	.
Germany^b	*8 451	*781	*257	*208	*598	133	401	183
Greece	1 408	786	1 304	477	243	182	74	52
Hungary⁺	.	.	.	24	1	3	32	172
Iceland^b	4	6	0	1	1	0	7	10
Ireland	31	169	10	18	13	13	5	32
Israel	91	474	571	39	212	462	106	.
Italy	13 825	4 843	1 634	2 952	3 178	4 384	2 614	445
Luxembourg	.	0	1	0	0	0	.	.
Moldova, Rep. of^b	.	.	0	0	26	0	0	0
Netherlands	26	23	25	42	52	21	22	55
Norway^{b, c}	19	7	61	0	39	7	15	10
Poland	.	.	116	221	753	383	211	18
Portugal^a,b	290	199	129	119	132	83	94	.
Romania^a	.	.	.	.	4	23	69	38
Russian Fed.^c	.	.	100	238	358	120	155	489
Slovakia	.	.	.	21	1	0	0	0
Spain⁺	2 287	1 511	977	1 984	5 192	1 077	5 437	574
Sweden	747	125	73	3	18	29	22	125
Switzerland^c	4	0	1	0	0	0	7	0
Turkey	.	.	166	165	62	7	5	180
Ukraine	.	.	131	176	182	260	.	192
United Kingdom⁺	834	791	298	176	148	385	107	174
* Refers to Former Fed. Rep. of Germany. ^a Strikes only. ^b Exc. workers indirectly involved. ^c Exc. work stoppages lasting less than one day. ⁺ Refer to Technical Notes.

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