World Labour Report, 1997-1998

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

Table 4.3. Workdays not worked as a result of strikes and lockouts (thousands)

	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995

Africa
Algeria	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Botswana^a	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3
Burundi	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Central African Rep.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Egypt	0	6	2	1	0	.	23	4
Ghana	197	8	7	10	.	.	.	.
Guinea	.	.	90	8	1	.	.	.
Kenya	.	29	.	.	.	.	.	.
Malawi	1	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mali⁺	7	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mauritius	13	12	3	0	6	0	1	2
Morocco^a	575	224	323	382	286	487	.	.
Namibia^a	.	.	471	18	2 592	401	.	.
Niger^a	.	.	0	0	.	.	.	.
Nigeria	1 354	318	1 374	2 589	1 185	12 908	233 453	.
Senegal	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
South Africa	.	678	2 793	1 339	1 727	783	.	.
Tunisia	.	125	88	50	66	60	94	.
Zambia	80	66	219	258	111	.	.	.
Zimbabwe	233	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Americas
Bahamas	.	.	0	0	0	.	.	.
Barbados⁺	14	5	2	1	.	0	0	0
Bolivia	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Brazil^a	81	49 575	17	7	2 260	.	2	.
Canada⁺	8 975	3 126	5 079	2 516	2 110	1 517	1 607	1 569
Chile^a	428	132	245	731	330	312	.	.
Colombia	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Costa Rica	427	44	159	98	5 776	3 394	159	2 531
Ecuador	508	267	428	307	320	114	74	.
El Salvador⁺	44	351	154	815	1 051	463	140	396
Guatemala	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Guyana	68	.	244	111	127	129	90	81
Haiti	22	2 094	.	.	.	.	.	.
Honduras	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Jamaica	.	.	31	.	.	.	.	.
Mexico^+,a	43	334	1 599	1 620	1 602	1 843	1 370	1 304
Nicaragua^a	.	.	2	710	185	.	.	.
Panama⁺	159	20	0	0	0	0	5	4
Peru⁺	2 240	1 529	1 883	1 110	290	271	242	131
Suriname	15	19	6	2	4	23	.	.
Trinidad and Tobago	118	77	10	16	69	29	11	209
United States^b	20 844	7 079	5 926	4 584	3 989	3 981	5 022	5 771
Venezuela⁺	315	.	.	.	.	.		.

Asia
Australia⁺	3 320	1 256	1 377	1 611	941	636	502	548
Bangladesh	1 160	285	28	30	20	16	3	.
Fiji	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	21
Hong Kong (before 1.7.97)⁺	21	1	4	0	3	16	0	1
India⁺	21 925	29 239	24 086	26 428	31 259	20 301	15 569	.
Indonesia⁺	34	557	317	535	2 364	.	.	.
Japan⁺	1 001	264	145	96	231	116	85	.
Korea, Rep. of	61	64	4 487	3 258	1 528	1 308	1 484	393
Malaysia^a	25	36	302	23	16	7	6	5
Myanmar	.	.	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand⁺	373	756	331	101	114	24	38	53
Pakistan	55	159	187	583	398	.	341	64
Papua New Guinea	21	.	26	1	7	5	.	.
Philippines^b	105	2 458	1 345	1 140	724	710	568	584
Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka⁺	335	170	194	109	271	21	179	294
Thailand	5	13	72	236	155	214	43	.

Europe
Austria⁺	17	23	9	58	23	13	0	0
Azerbaijan	.	.	1 075	.	.	.	.	.
Belarus	.	.	29	280	89	1	6	0
Belgium⁺	.	.	103	67	199	55	71	100
Cyprus	102	17	32	10	60	24	29	.
Czech Rep.	.	.	.	2	19	0	3	2
Denmark⁺	.	.	98	70	63	114	75	197
Finland	.	.	935	458	76	17	526	869
France⁺	1 523	727	528	497	359	511	521	.
Germany⁺	*128	*355	*364	*154	*1 545	593	229	247
Greece⁺	2 907	1 094	23 441	5 840	2 830	1 602	666	450
Hungary⁺	.	.	.	9	4	5	29	259
Iceland	31	91	0	3	0	0	97	217
Ireland^b,c	412	418	223	86	191	61	26	130
Israel^c	217	540	1 071	98	387	1 637	793	.
Italy⁺	16 457	3 831	5 181	2 985	2 737	3 411	3 374	909
Luxembourg	.	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Moldova, Rep. of	.	.	0	0	154	0	0	0
Netherlands	57	89	207	96	85	45	47	691
Norway^b	104	66	139	3	365	34	97	51
Poland	.	.	159	518	2 360	580	562	56
Portugal⁺	533	275	147	124	190	80	97	.
Romania^a	.	.	.	.	17	90	361	212
Russian Fed.^b	.	.	208	2 314	1 893	237	755	1 367
Slovakia	.	.	.	167	14	0	18	0
Spain⁺	6 178	3 224	2 613	4 537	6 333	2 141	6 277	1 457
Sweden⁺	4 479	504	770	22	28	190	52	627
Switzerland^b	6	1	4	0	1	0	14	0
Turkey	.	.	3 467	3 809	1 154	575	243	4 838
Ukraine	.	.	126	1 873	866	2 677	.	.
United Kingdom⁺	11 964	6 402	1 903	761	528	649	278	415
* Refers to Former Fed. Rep. of Germany. ^a Strikes only. ^b Exc. work stoppages lasting less than one day. ^c Exc. work stoppages in which less than 10 workdays not worked. ⁺ Refer to Technical Notes.

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