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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 ...
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 ...
The strike is expected to deepen that financial hole. A 50-day work stoppage would cost Boeing $5.5 billion, investment bank TD Cowen said in a report reviewed by ABC News at the outset of the ...
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.
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 ...
Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968: 1968 Florida: 25,000 - 60,000 Anti-Rent War and strikes: 1839-45 Hudson Valley, Upstate New York: 24,000 [59] 1951 Caterpillar strike: 1951 East Peoria, Illinois: 23,000 [85] 1973 Chicago teachers strike: 1973 Chicago: 20,000 [86] 1948 Caterpillar strike: 1948 Peoria, Illinois +20,000 1982 garment ...
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.