Work Stoppages

	A	B	C	D	E	F	H
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2	Table 1. Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, 1947-2013
3	SOURCE:		http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.t01.htm				Graph & File by Art Shipman, The New Arthurian Economics
4					Days idle (Note 2)
5		Year	Number of work stoppages beginning in period	Numbers of workers involved (thousands) (Note 1)	Number (thousands)	Percent of estimated working time (Note 3)
6		1947	270	1629	25720	(Note 5)
7		1948	245	1435	26127	0.22
8		1949	262	2537	43420	0.38
9		1950	424	1698	30390	0.26
10		1951	415	1462	15070	0.12
11		1952	470	2746	48820	0.38
12		1953	437	1623	18130	0.14
13		1954	265	1075	16630	0.13
14		1955	363	2055	21180	0.16
15		1956	287	1370	26840	0.2
16		1957	279	887	10340	0.07
17		1958	332	1587	17900	0.13
18		1959	245	1381	60850	0.43
19		1960	222	896	13260	0.09
20		1961	195	1031	10140	0.07
21		1962	211	793	11760	0.08
22		1963	181	512	10020	0.07
23		1964	246	1183	16220	0.11
24		1965	268	999	15140	0.1
25		1966	321	1300	16000	0.1
26		1967	381	2192	31320	0.18
27		1968	392	1855	35367	0.2
28		1969	412	1576	29397	0.16
29		1970	381	2468	52761	0.29
30		1971	298	2516	35538	0.19
31		1972	250	975	16764	0.09
32		1973	317	1400	16260	0.08
33		1974	424	1796	31809	0.16
34		1975	235	965	17563	0.09
35		1976	231	1519	23962	0.12
36		1977	298	1212	21258	0.1
37		1978	219	1006	23774	0.11
38		1979	235	1021	20409	0.09
39		1980	187	795	20844	0.09
40		1981	145	729	16908	0.07
41		1982	96	656	9061	0.04
42		1983	81	909	17461	0.08
43		1984	62	376	8499	0.04
44		1985	54	324	7079	0.03
45		1986	69	533	11861	0.05
46		1987	46	174	4481	0.02
47		1988	40	118	4381	0.02
48		1989	51	452	16996	0.07
49		1990	44	185	5926	0.02
50		1991	40	392	4584	0.02
51		1992	35	364	3989	0.01
52		1993	35	182	3981	0.01
53		1994	45	322	5021	0.02
54		1995	31	192	5771	0.02
55		1996	37	273	4889	0.02
56		1997	29	339	4497	0.01
57		1998	34	387	5116	0.02
58		1999	17	73	1996	0.01
59		2000	39	394	20419	0.06
60		2001	29	99	1151	(Note 4)
61		2002	19	46	660	(Note 4)
62		2003	14	129	4091	0.01
63		2004	17	171	3344	0.01
64		2005	22	100	1736	0.01
65		2006	20	70	2688	0.01
66		2007	21	189	1265	(Note 4)
67		2008	15	72	1954	0.01
68		2009	5	13	124	(Note 4)
69		2010	11	45	302	(Note 4)
70		2011	19	113	1020	(Note 4)
71		2012	19	148	1131	(Note 4)
72		2013	15	55	290	(Note 4)
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74	Notes:
75	1 Number of workers involved includes only those workers who participated in work stoppages that began in the calendar year. Workers are counted more than once if they are involved in more than one stoppage during the reference period. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.
76	2 Days idle includes all stopages in effect during the reference period. For work stoppages that are still ongoing at the end of the calendar year, only those days of idleness in the calendar year are counted.
77	3 Agricultural and government employees are included in the calculation of estimated working time; private households, forestry, and fishery employees are excluded.
78	4 Less than .005.
79	5 Data not available.