Major Work Stoppages: Detailed Monthly Data

Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, August 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	89,700	1,030,800
AK Steel Corp., (Middletown, OH)Armco Employees Independent Federation (Private Industry)	331111	3-1-06	(3)	2,300	52,900	310,100
City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)The Engineers and Architects Association (Local Government)	921100	8-22-06	8-23-06	7,500	15,000	15,000
Gary School District (Gary, IN)Gary Teachers Union (Local Government)	611110	8-21-06	(3)	1,400	12,600	12,600
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital(New Brunswick, NJ)United Steelworkers Health Care Workers Council Local 4-200 (Public Industry)	622110	8-24-06	(3)	1,200	7,200	7,200
Detroit School District (Detroit, MI)Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231 (Local Government)	611110	8-28-06	(3)	9,500	38,000	38,000
Stoppages beginning in month: 4				19,600	72,800
Stoppages in effect in month: 6				25,800	215,400
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

Last Modified Date: July 1, 2008

Work Stoppages