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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 and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers were involved in strikes, which lasted on average four ...
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.
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-11. ^ "Analysis of Strikes and Lockouts in 1934 and Analysis for September 1935" (PDF). Bureau of Labor Statistics. January 1936. ^ a b c Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1944-01-01). "Strikes in 1943 : Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 782".
Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike. Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912. 1912. 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike. 1912 New York City waiters' strike. Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912. Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912.
1946 Electrical Workers Strike. Workers Involved: 174,000. After months of negotiations, workers represented by the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America went on strike at ...
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 history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the ...
From November 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946 (113 days), CIO 's United Automobile Workers (UAW), organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a nationwide strike against General Motors, workers used the tactic of the sit down strike. [1] It was "the longest strike against a major manufacturer" that the UAW had yet seen, and it was also "the longest ...