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The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers ...
2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike. 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike. 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike. 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States. 2019. 425,500. 2019 General Electric strike. 2019 Stop & Shop strike. 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike.
1946 (United States) Pittsburgh Power Strike occurred. [41] 1946 (United States) Railroad Strike occurred. [41] 1946 (United States) Steel Strike of 1946 occurred. [41] 1 April 1946 (United States) A strike by 400,000 mine workers in the U.S. began. U.S. troops seized railroads and coal mines the following month. [41] 4 October 1946 (United ...
The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution produced a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities. As workers moved from farms to factories, mines and other hard labor, they faced harsh working conditions such as long hours, low pay and ...
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 ...
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 ...
1946 United States steel strike; ... 1986 USX steel strike; ... 2009–2010 Vale Inco strike; A. 2020–2021 Alabama aluminum plant strike;
The 1952 steel strike was a strike by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) against U.S. Steel (USS) and nine other steelmakers. The strike was scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952, but US President Harry Truman nationalized the American steel industry hours before the workers walked out. The steel companies sued to regain control of their ...