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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.
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 ...
Bernstein, Barton J. "The Truman administration and the steel strike of 1946." Journal of American History 52.4 (1966): 791–803. JSTOR 1894347; Metzgar, Jack. "The 1945–1946 strike Wave." in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Routledge, 2015) pp 256–265. [ISBN missing] Wolman, Philip J. "The Oakland general strike of 1946."
United Auto Workers strike of 1945–1946; Hollywood Black Friday; 1946 [20] 4,600,000 1946 Steel Strike; 1946 UMW Mine Strike; 1946 Rail Strike; 1946 United Electrical GE strike; 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike; 1947 [21] 2,170,000 Telephone Strike; 1948 [21] 1,960,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike; 1948 Caterpillar strike; Boeing ...
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 ...
Endorsed by steel workers onstage, Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a fist and wears a hard hat during his Make America Great Again Rally in Latrobe ...
Steel production by countries. United States steel production faced a steep decline in the 1970s. As the only major steel maker not harmed during World War II, the United States iron and steel industry reached its maximum world importance during and just after World War II. In 1945, the US produced 67% of the world's pig iron, and 72% of the steel.
The CP's opponents within the labor movement capitalized on the Party's break with FDR to attack it. James Carey, the president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (or UE) who had worked closely with Communist UE officials in the past, now distanced himself from them over their opposition to a third term for Roosevelt ...