Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining hall headaches, Yale is at present threatened by a walkout of most of its employees. During the summer months the United Construction Workers Union, a C. I. O. outfit representing 400 of Yale employees, presented Eli officials with demands for collective bargaining and closed shop to govern wages, hours, and conditions of employment...
Congress grew apoplectic; even labor leaders "condemned and denounced" the walkout. From the White House came an order to reopen North American's plant. If necessary, the plant would be put under Army operation and protection. The Presidential ultimatum gave strikers only a few hours to get back to their tools...
Union leaders still had to negotiate a contract. They predicted that they might have to threaten a walkout before the Ford management would come to terms...
...only Congressmen but labor's advocates last week denounced the San Francisco shipyard strike (TIME, May 19). When even Madam Perkins held up her hands in horror, it became 1941's most unpopular walkout...
Local and national A.F. of L. officers deplored and denounced the walkout, C.I.O. officials looked around for a formula to get their men back to work. As depressed as anyone were officials of OPM, who had proudly fathered the shipbuilding pact on the West Coast, considered it ideal, were in the midst of trying to father others like it in the Great Lakes, the Gulf and the East...