Major Work Stoppages: Detailed Monthly Data

Work Stoppages

Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, October 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)	3000 (4)	63,000	1,171,800
AK Steel Corp., (Middletown, OH)Armco Employees Independent Federation (Private Industry)	331111	3-1-06	(3)	1900 (5)	39,900	396,000
Bombardier Learjet (Wichita, KS) International Association of Machinists, Local 639 (Private Industry)	336411	10-2-06	10-23-06	1,100	16,500	16,500
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (AL, NE, NY, NC, OH, KS, TN, TX, VA, and WI) United Steelworkers (Private Industry)	326210	10-6-06	(3)	12,600	214,200	214,200
ABM Janitorial Services, GCA Services Group, Sanitors Services of Texas, Pritchard Industries Southwest (Houston, TX) Service Employees International Union, Local 5 (Private Industry)	561720	10-23-06	(3)	1,300	9,100	9,100
Stoppages beginning in month: 3				15,000	239,800
Stoppages in effect in month: 5				19,900	342,700
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 (4) The number of workers for the Northwest Airlines work stoppage decreased from 3,900 to 3,000 at the beginning of October (5) The number of workers for the AK Steel work stoppage decreased from 2,300 to 1,900 at the beginning of October

Last Modified Date: July 1, 2008