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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 ...
1942–1944 musicians' strike; 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike; 1946 Oakland general strike; 1946 St. Paul teachers' strike; 1946 United States steel strike; 1946 Westinghouse Electric strike; 1947 Telephone strike; 1948 Boeing strike; 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike; 1949 New York City brewery strike; 1949 New York City taxicab strike
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.
Boeing said it remained committed to reaching a compromise to end the strike, which has halted production of its best-selling 737 MAX as well as its older 767 and 777 wide-body programs.
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 ...
Lorraine Motel, site of the 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. 1968 January: Henry Loeb becomes mayor again. February 11: Memphis sanitation strike begins. [28] April 3: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers I've Been to the Mountaintop speech. April 4: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. [29] April 8: March in honor of Martin Luther ...