1947 Telephone strike

1947 labor strike across the United States strikes us The 1947 Telephone strike was a five-week long, nation-wide labor stoppage in the United States by the National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW) and other smaller unions that started on April 7, 1947.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18024280 https://web.archive.org/web/20190711134528/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18024280 2019-07-11 live U.S. Telephone Strike: Some Workers To Go Back 1 May 1947 The Sydney Morning Herald 11 July 2019 The workers, mostly switchboard operators, were protesting long hours and low pay by AT&T, the Bell Telephone Company, the New York Telephone Company, and others.The Dimensions of Major Work Stoppages 1947–59 https://books.google.com/books?id=DqnMPQeICs0C&q=1947+telephone+strike&pg=RA6-PA3 https://web.archive.org/web/20190711135203/https://books.google.com/books?id=DqnMPQeICs0C&pg=RA6-PA3&lpg=RA6-PA3&dq=1947+telephone+strike&source=bl&ots=6S8MdtSoqa&sig=ACfU3U08ep0RVHw7-TWosr3pyK5OMLSiOg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvvfSZ_qzjAhXRUs0KHYg9Cj84ChDoATADegQICBAB 2019-07-11 live Bulletins of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics – 1286-1299 Washington DC U.S. Government Printing Office June 1961 Bulletin 1298 2019-07-11Working Americans 1880–2003 2000 Derks, Scott Grey House 1891482815 1st Lakeville, CT 212–214 62290310 registration https://archive.org/details/workingamericans00derk There were demonstrations throughout the United States with several instances of police arresting passive strikers.https://www.britishpathe.com/video/us-phone-strike Us Phone Strike Pathé British www.britishpathe.com en-GB https://web.archive.org/web/20190711142802/https://www.britishpathe.com/video/us-phone-strike 11 July 2019 2019-07-11 The mass of the strike was calculated to be equivalent to 10,100,000 man-days. In total around 370,000 workers struck.https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1947.pdf Work Stoppages Caused by Labor-Management Disputes in 1947 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 6 23 days into the strike in New York, non-NFTW union officials and the New York Telephone Company settled their demands, and 40,000 workers began working again the next day. At the same time, the Bell Telephone Company reached an agreement with non-NFTW union officials in Pennsylvania, and 6,000 maintenance workers resumed their jobs the next day as well. These Pennsylvanian workers received a $4 per week wage increase rather than the $12 per week they had originally demanded. The workers in the NFTW were able to strike for five weeks without having to break and return to work because of the financial support totaling $128,000 given to them by both the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.https://cwa-union.org/about/cwa-history https://web.archive.org/web/20190613025237/https://cwa-union.org/about/cwa-history 2019-06-13 live CWA History Communications Workers of America 2019-07-11 The strike eventually caused the dissolution of the NFTW, which inspired the creation of the Communications Workers of America union.https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/sets/72157655523489306/ Communications Workers: 1947-1980 Flickr 9 November 1950 https://web.archive.org/web/20190712175831/https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/sets/72157655523489306/ 12 July 2019 References See also Organized Labour List of strikes List of US strikes by size Category:1947 in the United States Category:1947 labor disputes and strikes Category:April 1947 in the United States Category:Labor disputes in the United States Category:History of the telephone Category:AT&T Category:1940s strikes in the United States Category:AT&T strikes