Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, September 2006
Organizations involved and location Industry code (1) Beginning date Ending date Number of workers (2) Days idle this month Days idle, cumulative

Northwest Airlines Corp. (National)Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
(Private Industry)
481111
8-20-05
(3)
3,900
78,000
1,108,800

AK Steel Corp., (Middletown, OH)Armco Employees Independent Federation
(Private Industry)
331111
3-1-06
(3)
2,300
46,000
356,100

Gary School District (Gary, IN)Gary Teachers Union
(Local Government)
611110
8-21-06
9-1-06
1,400
1,400
14,000

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital(New Brunswick, NJ)United Steelworkers Health Care Workers Council
Local 4-200 (Local Government)
622110
8-24-06
9-21-06
1,200
16,800
24,000

Detroit School District (Detroit, MI)Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231
(Local Government)
611110
8-28-06
9-13-06
9,500
66,500
104,500

Sacramento County
(Sacramento, CA)Stationary Engineers Local 39,American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
District Council 57, Local 146, United Public Employees, Local 1(Local Government)
921100
9-5-06
9-18-06
3,900
39,000
39,000

Stoppages beginning in month: 1
3,900
39,000

Stoppages in effect in month:   6
22,200
247,700

Footnotes:
(1) Industry code is from the 2002 NAICS (North American Industry Classification System).
(2) The BLS rounds figures to the nearest 100. Companies and unions may have rounded the figures before providing BLS the data
(3) Ongoing work stoppage

 

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Last Modified Date: July 1, 2008