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Within a week, the momentum of the strike had dwindled. Over 200 agreements were made between operators and building managers, which resulted in over 5,000 elevator operators returning to work. [10] In 1925, the union organized another strike of the elevator operators, and called on others like firemen, engineers, and maintenance employees to join.
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1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 Textile workers' strike (1934) 1934 New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 nationwide 400,000 [4] 1949 US coal strike: 1949 ...
[4] [5] The union limits entry of new workers into the field, and has constrained the ability of firms to use new technology to streamline elevator production in the United States. [5] Data indicates that elevator-related work is the highest paid trade in the United States, with a median wage $47.60 per hour in 2021. [5]
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The United Auto Workers strike isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s part of a growing movement of US workers walking off the job. Strikes make a comeback in America
The Writers Guild of America, with more than 11,000 members, and SAG-AFTRA, which represents 160,000 film and television actors, both went on strike early this summer against Hollywood studios ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)