In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brampton_Bierlow" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brampton Bierlow">Brampton Bierlow</a> signals the start of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners'_strike_(1984–85)" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UK miners' strike (1984–85)">strike that lasted almost a year</a> and involved the majority of the country's miners.