Editing List of strikes (section)

====1980s====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
! Strike
! Place
!Country
|-
|1980
|[[1980 Lublin strikes]]
|[[Lublin]]
|[[Poland]]
|-
| 1980
|[[Gdańsk Shipyard|Gdańsk Shipyard Strike]]
| [[Gdańsk]]
| Poland
|-
| 1980
|[[Upper Silesia 1980 strikes]]
| [[Jastrzębie-Zdrój]]
| Poland
|-
|1980
|[[1980 actors strike]]
|nationwide (primarily [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]])
|[[United States]]
|-
|1981
|[[1981 Schlitz strike]]
|[[Milwaukee]]
|[[United States]]
|-
| 1981
|[[Air traffic controllers' strike of 1981|Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1981
|[[Bydgoszcz events]]
| [[Bydgoszcz]]
| Poland
|-
| 1981
|[[1981 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
| 1981
|[[1981 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
|1981
|[[1981 strike at the Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń]]
|Bieruń
|Poland
|-
|1981
|[[1981 Milwaukee Police strike]]
|Milwaukee
|United States
|-
|1982
|[[Great Bombay textile strike]]
|[[Mumbai]]
|[[India]]
|-
|1982
|[[1982 animators' strike]]
|[[Greater Los Angeles]]
|United States
|-
| 1982
|[[1982 NFL strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1982
|[[1982 garment workers' strike]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bao |first1=Xiaolan |title=Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92 |page=3 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=2001 |isbn=9780252026317 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_-KjLInXdsC&pg=PA3}}</ref>
| [[New York City]]
| United States
|-
|1983
|[[1983 SEPTA Regional Rail strike]]
|[[Greater Philadelphia]]
|United States
|-
| 1983
|[[Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983]]
| [[Greenlee County, Arizona]]
| United States
|-
|1983
|[[1983 Greyhound Bus Lines strike in Seattle]]
|[[Seattle]]
|United States
|-
| 1984
|[[Battle of Orgreave]]
| [[Orgreave, South Yorkshire]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 1984
|[[Cammell Laird Shipyard Occupation]]
| [[Birkenhead]]
| United Kingdom
|-
| 1984–85
|[[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike]]
| nationwide
| United Kingdom
|-
|1985
|[[1985 Pan Am strike]]
|nationwide
|United States
|-
| 1985–86
|[[1985–86 Hormel strike]]
| [[Austin, Minnesota]]
| United States
|-
|1985–87
|[[1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike]]
|[[Watsonville, California]]
|United States
|-
|1985–86
|[[1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike]]
|[[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]
|United States
|-
| 1985
|[[Mudginberri dispute]]
| [[Northern Territory]]
| [[Australia]]
|-
| 1985
|[[1985 Major League Baseball strike]]
| nationwide
| United States and [[Canada]]
|-
| 1986
|[[Dollar Sweets dispute]]
| [[State of Victoria]]
| Australia
|-
| 1986
|[[Pan Am Railways#Labor disputes and contraction|Guilford Transportation Industries railroad workers' strike]]
| [[North Billerica, Massachusetts]]
| United States
|-
| 1986
|[[Major Soccer League|Major Indoor Soccer League lockout]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1986
|[[Wapping dispute]]
| [[London]]
| [[England]]
|-
| 1987
|[[International Paper strike]]
| [[Corinth, New York]]
| United States
|-
| 1987
|[[1987 NFL strike]]
| nationwide
| United States
|-
| 1987
|[[Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher's Strike]]
| [[Toronto, Ontario]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
| 1988
|[[1988 Writers Guild of America strike]]
| [[Hollywood, California]]
| United States
|-
|1988
|[[1988 Polish strikes]]
|nationwide
|Poland
|-
|1988
|[[1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike]]
|nationwide
|United Kingdom
|-
| 1989
| [[1989 Kosovo miners' strike]]
| [[SAP Kosovo]]
| [[SFR Yugoslavia]]
|-
| 1989
|[[1989 Australian pilots' strike]]
| nationwide
| Australia
|-
| 1989–90
|[[Pittston Coal strike]]
| [[Pittston, Pennsylvania]]
| United States
|-
| 1989–93
| [[1990s Donbas miners' strikes|Donbas miners' strikes]]
| [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| Soviet Union
|-
| 1989–90
|[[1989–90 British ambulance strike]]
| Nationwide
| United Kingdom
|}