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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 ...
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]
1995 Boeing Strike: 1995 Washington State (Everett/Seattle/Renton) 32,000 - 34,000 2005 New York City transit strike: 2005 New York City: 31,000 2019 Stop & Shop strike: 2019 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut: 31,000 [34] 1946 New York City truckers strike: 1946 New York City & New Jersey: 30,000–35,000 1938 New York City truckers ...
The total economic loss of the strike so far, according to its numbers, has been $7.64 billion — the biggest chunk being $4.5 billion lost from Boeing, $648 million of lost wages within the ...
1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US truckers strike; November 1967 General Motors strike; 1967 Caterpillar strike; September 1967 General Motors strike; 1968 2,649,000 New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968; Florida statewide ...
The latest strike reflects a broader resurgence of power among unions in the United States. Almost exactly one year ago, the United Auto Workers union won historic guarantees from the Big Three ...
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 ...
The airline introduced the first jet service into Key West, FL in 1968 with the Boeing 727-100. The Douglas DC-8 fleet included the stretched Super DC-8-61 which was the largest aircraft type operated by the airline until the introduction of new wide body jetliners such as the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 .