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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]
1966 New York City transit strike: 1966 New York City: 33,000 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 ...
The voting has closed for unionized factory workers at Boeing who were deciding Monday whether to accept a contract offer or to extend their strike, which has lasted more than seven weeks and shut ...
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 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 ...
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.
A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties.