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Major Work Stoppages: Detailed Monthly Data May 2008

Work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, May 2008
Organizations involved and location	Industry code (1)	Beginning date	Ending date	Number of workers (2)	Days idle this month	Days idle, cumulative for this work stoppage
American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, NY; Detroit, Hamtramck, Three Rivers, MI; United Auto Workers International Union, Local 235, 262, 424, 846, 2093 (Private Industry)	336350	2-26-08	5-22-08	3,600	57,600	226,800
General Motors Corporation, Lansing, MI, United Auto Workers International Union, Local 602 (Private Industry)	336111	4-17-08	5-16-08	2,300	27,600	50,600
General Motors Corporation, Kansas City, MO, United Auto Workers International Union, Local 31 (Private Industry)	336111	5-5-08	5-21-08	2,400	31,200	31,200
Bay Area Maintenance Contractors, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Service Employees International Union, Local 1877 (Private Industry)	561720	5-19-08	5-28-08	1,800	12,600	12,600
Stoppages beginning in month: 2				4,200	43,800
Stoppages in effect in month: 4				10,100	129,000
Footnotes: (1) Industry code is from the 2007 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.

Access the following tables containing data on work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers:

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Last Modified Date: February 12, 2009