A strike paper, strike bulletin or strike newspaper is a news publication started by participants in a
strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to Labor (economics), work. A strike usually takes place in response to grievance (labour), employee grievance ...
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A 1983 Finnish nursing strike started a strike paper to efficiently communicate with its members.
In popular culture
''Papergirl'' by Melinda McCracken is a novel about a girl who distributes the strikers' newspaper during the 1919
Winnipeg general strike.
Examples
* ''
The Citizens' Voice
''The Citizens' Voice'' is a compact newspaper published daily in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Its 2005 circulation was 32,862, mostly Luzerne County residents.
Founding
The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre ...
'' (1978–present),
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre ( or ) is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in th ...
* ''Press Connection'' (1977–1980),
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin, Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin b ...
* ''Sōgi News'' (1932),
Kyushu, Japan
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...
References
{{Portal bar, Journalism, Organized labor
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Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, Textile, rags, poaceae, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre e ...
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