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Allen declared the strike illegal and proceeded to have multiple lawsuits over the fact. The result of the strike set back Boeing with their orders about 1.25 billion dollars. Boeing was then forced to hire about 50,000 to make for lost time and pushing out orders. Most of the orders were for the government making B-47s, B-50s, and C-97s. [14]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Boeing Strike of 1948: 1948 Seattle, Washington: 15,000 1926 Passaic textile strike: 1926 Passaic, New Jersey: 15,000 [89] 1835 New England Mill Strike: 1835 New England 14,000 Copper Country strike of 1913–1914: 1913–1914 Upper Michigan: 14,000 [90] 1994 Caterpillar strike: 1994 Illinois, Pennsylvania and Colorado: 14,000 Bay View massacre ...
At the heart of the Boeing strike that began Friday is a story about what happens when penny-pinching executives lose the plot and it falls to workers to get everyone back on track.
Telephone Strike; 1948 [21] 1,960,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike; 1948 Caterpillar strike; Boeing Strike of 1948; Goodyear strike; 1948 Miami Garment workers strike; 1949 3,030,000 1949 New York City brewery strike; Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949; 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike; 1950 2,410,000 Atlanta transit strike of 1950; 1951 ...
Beleaguered aerospace company Boeing faced a new source of woe on Friday when more than 30,000 workers in the Pacific Northwest commenced a major strike. The labor action began days after Boeing's ...
Factory workers at Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the company to restart idled Pacific Northwest assembly lines ...
1942–1944 musicians' strike; 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike; 1946 Oakland general strike; 1946 St. Paul teachers' strike; 1946 United States steel strike; 1946 Westinghouse Electric strike; 1947 Telephone strike; 1948 Boeing strike; 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike; 1949 New York City brewery strike; 1949 New York City taxicab strike