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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike; 2015 Kohler strike; 2016 99,400 2016 Verizon workers' strike; 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike; 2017 25,300 2018 485,200 2018 University of California Medical Centers Strike; Marriott Hotels strike; 2018 DeKalb County School District bus drivers' strike; 2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike
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 ...
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 ...