To place the 1945-46 strike in perspective, the longest strike between the UAW and at least one of the Detroit Three – General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler Corp.) – lasted 136 days involving union members in the Flint area from 1969 to 1970 at the Fisher Body II plant.
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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 ...
1954 to 1961. Roger Bybee, labor columnist and longtime editor of Racine Labor has written an analysis of the longest strike in U.S. history, the United Auto ...
Oct 25, 2023 · The last time the union struck one of the automakers, with its 2019 strike at GM, the strike lasted 40 days. Wednesday is the 41st day of the ...
Sep 1, 2023 · Labor historians say the longest strike the nation has ever seen was the Kohler strike, which lasted for 11 years from 1954 to 1965. Kohler is ...
Oct 16, 2019 · The 2019 GM UAW strike lasted for 40 days.
Sep 15, 2023 · The largest strike in the past 30 years was the 10-day UPS strike in August 1997, when 180,000 stopped working. But this UAW strike is a far cry ...
Sep 17, 2019 · The 1998 strike was the longest walkout at GM in nearly three decades, clocking in at 54 days. More than 9,000 workers in Flint, Michigan ...
Apr 9, 2024 · The strike is the longest legal services walk-out in New York City history since 2003, when unionized MFJ staffers held a nine-week long strike.
Sep 15, 2023 · It lasted six weeks, and cost the company about $4 billion in lost earnings and 300,000 units in production.