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The United Steelworkers union is counting on clean energy projects to spur membership growth, offsetting losses at oil refining and petrochemical plants, a union official said, even if Donald ...
2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike: 2012 Los Angeles and Long Beach, California: 700 Pacific Electric Railway strike of 1903: 1903 Los Angeles: 700 1981 Schlitz strike: 1981 Milwaukee: 700 1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike: 1985–86 New Bedford, Massachusetts: 700 [122] 2007 Freightliner wildcat strike: 2007 Portland ...
More than 55,000 Los Angeles County union workers in hospitals, social services, public health and other county departments represented by SEIU 721 are prepared to walk off the job over alleged ...
The 46,000 members of the Aluminum Workers of America voted to merge with the budding steelworker union that was the USW in June 1944. Eventually, eight more unions joined the USW as well: the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (1967); the United Stone and Allied Product Workers of America (1971); International Union of District 50, Allied and Technical Workers of the United ...
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. [1] [2] [3]
With no bargaining sessions planned before the traditional Christmas break at Newport News Shipbuilding, United Steelworkers local 8888 has warned its members to be ready for a walkout next year.
The most famous one, and the only one to cause any loss of life, killed twenty employees of the Los Angeles Times on October 1, 1910. Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis was a staunch opponent of labor unions, and the main supporter for the open shop movement in Los Angeles. Authorities arrested James B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal in Detroit ...
"We are here demanding respect," Raymond Mesa, a member of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 721, told KTLA 5 outside of city hall. Los Angeles city workers walk out for one-day strike ...