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The Seattle General Strike was a five-day general work stoppage by 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington from February 6 to 11, 1919. The goal was to support shipyard workers in several unions who were locked out of their jobs when they tried to strike for higher wages.
The Seattle shipyard was acquired in 1915 along with docks in New Jersey and New York under the William H. Todd Corporation before the company name was changed. During World War I , Todd Shipyards built close to 90% of the U.S. naval convoy , leading to a boom in production and employment figures (18,000 workers on payroll).
The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (IUMSWA) was an American labor union which existed between 1933 and 1988. [1] The IUMSWA was first organised at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Camden, New Jersey after striking in 1934 and 1935.
Sep. 30—GROTON — Electric Boat and a labor union that represents thousands of shipyard workers have tentatively agreed to a new five-year contract. In a joint statement released Friday night ...
On April 6, 1917, 15 months after Skinner and Eddy Corp. began leasing the yard, the United States entered World War I. Skinner & Eddy responded to the news by purchasing an additional 15 acres (61,000 m 2) of Seattle waterfront property from the Seattle Dock Company and the Centennial Flouring Mill for $1,500,000 and $600,000 respectively ...
Earlier in the day, many of the estimated 30,000 workers who build Boeing's 737 MAX and other jets crowded to vote at Seattle's T-Mobile Park, although they cannot strike before their contract ...
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A history of Seattle waterfront workers, 1884-1934, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union 19 of Seattle, the Washington Commission for the Humanities, 1991. ISBN 978-0962957802; Nelson, Bruce. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s, University of Illinois Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0252061448