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Carnegie officials conceded that the AA essentially ran the Homestead plant after the 1889 strike. The union contract contained 58 pages of footnotes defining work rules at the plant and strictly limited management's ability to maximize output. [10] For its part, the AA saw substantial gains after the 1889 strike.
In 1915, workers revolted at the Mellon family's aluminum mill and took over every section of the plant. The sheriff of St. Lawrence County deputized businessmen to break the strike. New York Governor Whitman sent in three companies of the state militia, armed with bayonets, to disperse a crowd of hundreds of workers. The following day, striker ...
The Homestead Strike ... The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant ... His largest gifts were $125,000,000 to the Carnegie Corporation of New York ...
An 1895 study of New York bakeries found the bakers worked for over 100 hours a week ... A deadly strike in 1892 made it difficult for steel workers to organize. ... Carnegie Steel tried to break ...
Daniel G. Reid, primary owner of the tin plate trust, agreed to recognize the AA at the nonunion plants after a token strike in 1899. The formation in March 1900 of the American Sheet Steel Company, another trust, also brought a number of nonunion plants together with unionized facilities. But this time the company refused to recognize the AA ...
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 Tech Guild went on strike November 4, the day before the presidential election, threatening to disrupt the paper's election coverage.
Amazon’s union has authorized strikes at two facilities in New York ahead of the looming Dec. 15 negotiating deadline. “Amazon Teamsters at two New York City facilities — JFK8 and DBK4 ...