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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.
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.
1946 Licensed personal maritime strike: 1946 nationwide +136,000 Flint sit-down strike: 1936 Flint, Michigan: 136,000 [35] 1996 General Motors Strike: 1996 Dayton, OH: 135,000 2000 commercial actors strike: 2000 Hollywood: 134,400 [11] 1943 steelworkers strike: 1943 Northeastern United States: 132,000 [34] 1946 Unlicensed personal maritime ...
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 ...
United Auto Workers strike of 1945–1946; Hollywood Black Friday; 1946 [20] 4,600,000 ... 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike; 2015 Kohler strike; 2016 99,400
The WNBA also went on strike, as did several Major League Soccer teams and Major League Baseball teams. The General Trades Union didn’t last long, but it represents one of the earlier efforts to ...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -At a meeting of United Steelworkers union officials this week, presidential politics was off the agenda, a departure from past election-year gatherings and a sign of the ...
Pages in category "Labor disputes led by the United Steelworkers" ... 1946 United States steel strike; 1952 steel strike; 1974 Elliot Lake miners strike;