1969–1970 General Electric strike

Labor dispute in the United States October 27, 1969 – February 7, 1970 United States Strikes, protests, demonstrations Union victory United Electrical Workers (UE) International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) General Electric 1969–1970 General Electric strike The 1969–1970 General Electric strike was a nationwide labor dispute between General Electric and its workers as represented by the AFL–CIO affiliated International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) and the independent United Electrical Workers (UE). Involving 164,000 workers on average, it was the largest and most impactful strike in North America in 1969 in terms of the number of days lost.ANALYSIS OF WORK STOPPAGES, 1969 https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1969.pdf bls.gov Bureau of Labor Standards, U.S. Department of Labor It began on October 27, 1969, and was won by the workers after 102 days on the picket line. The strike brought together the two rival unions in the most meaningful way since UE was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1949.Seventy Years of Struggle: A Brief History of UE Bargaining with GE UE Union 9–10 https://www.ueunion.org/w6pdfs/UE-GE_History-web.pdf 10 March 2022 Impact UE and IUE led an alliance of unions which broke the back of Boulwarism, GE's aggressive 20-year-long policy of "take-it-or-leave-it" bargaining. Boulwarism was named for Lemuel Boulware, the company's vice president of labor and community relations, who devised the strategy in reaction to UE's success in the 1946 strike, and to capitalize on the bitter divisions, after 1949, in the ranks of GE union members. In 2012, Business Insider named it one of the most expensive strikes in United States history.Hicken Melanie The Most Expensive Strikes In History https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-strikes-in-history-2012-2 Business Insider February 29, 2012 References Category:1969 labor disputes and strikes Category:1970 labor disputes and strikes Category:General Electric Category:United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America General Electric Category:1960s strikes in the United States Category:1970s strikes in the United States