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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.
Bernstein, Barton J. "The Truman administration and the steel strike of 1946." Journal of American History 52.4 (1966): 791–803. JSTOR 1894347; Metzgar, Jack. "The 1945–1946 strike Wave." in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Routledge, 2015) pp 256–265. [ISBN missing] Wolman, Philip J. "The Oakland general strike of 1946."
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 ...
May 23—MASSENA — United Steelworkers officials have shared with their membership the details of the tentative agreement with Arconic. Officials announced on May 14 that they had reached the ...
The leadership of the USW - a union of 1.2 million U.S. and Canadian workers from the steel, paper and energy industries as well as government workers - in July endorsed Democratic party candidate ...
United Auto Workers strike of 1945–1946; Hollywood Black Friday; 1946 [20] 4,600,000 1946 Steel Strike; 1946 UMW Mine Strike; 1946 Rail Strike; 1946 United Electrical GE strike; 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike; 1947 [21] 2,170,000 Telephone Strike; 1948 [21] 1,960,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike; 1948 Caterpillar strike; Boeing ...
An arbitration board has ruled that U.S. Steel may proceed with its proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel, a deal that faces strong opposition from its workforce. The board, which was jointly ...