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The 1946 US steel strike was a several months long strike of 750,000 steel workers of the United Steelworkers union. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was a part of larger wave of labor disputes, known as the US strike wave of 1945–1946 after the end of World War II , and remains the largest strike in US history.
1943 steelworkers strike: 1943 Northeastern United States: 132,000 [34] 1946 Unlicensed personal maritime strike: 1946 nationwide 130,000 1900 Anthracite coal strike [36] 1900 Eastern Pennsylvania: 125,000 1957 Western Electric strike [37] 1957 nationwide 120,000 [38] Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974: 1974 nationwide 116,000 [39] 1966 rail strike ...
The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946 [1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities.
United Auto Workers strike of 1945–1946; Hollywood Black Friday; 1946 [20] 4,600,000 1946 Steel Strike; 1946 UMW Mine Strike; 1946 Rail Strike; 1946 United Electrical GE strike; 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike; 1947 [21] 2,170,000 Telephone Strike; 1948 [21] 1,960,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike; 1948 Caterpillar strike; Boeing ...
The leadership of the USW - a union of 1.2 million U.S. and Canadian workers from the steel, paper and energy industries as well as government workers - in July endorsed Democratic party candidate ...
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 ...
The board, which was jointly chosen by U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers to decide disputes between them, said Wednesday that U. S. Steel has satisfied each of the conditions of the ...
'When U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt declares how good the Nippon deal will be for workers, I’m not going to take him at his word,' writes USW's David McCall. Here’s why the United Steelworkers ...