Pictured here, a national strike for the 40-hour week, paid holidays, and collective agreements. Workers organise a sit-in at their steel factory in June
The 1892 Homestead strike in Pennsylvania and the ensuing bloody battle instigated by the steel plant's management remain a transformational moment in U.S.
With the steel industry doing well and prices higher, the AA asked for a wage increase; the AA represented about 800 of the 3,800 workers at the plant. Frick
In 1919, workers represented by the American Federation of Labor went on strike against the United States Steel Corporation. Eventually workers at other
In 1937, workers at the Republic Steel Company, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and several other steel companies went on strike over low wages and poor
Homestead Strike, also called Homestead riot, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6,
"Come on, and you'll come over my carcass." - union steel worker William Foy. One of the most difficult episodes of Andrew Carnegie's life -- and one that
SWOC called a national strike on some of the Little Steel companies starting on May 26. By the 28th, there were 80,000 strikers at steel plants nationwide,
First secured by the USWA in 1947, 2-B established that steel mill managers could The steel strike—along with the 1958 auto and 1960 electrical workers'
