1946 United States steel strike
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| Date | January 21, 1946 – April 1946 | |||
| Location | United States | |||
| Caused by | Industry refusal to grant 25¢ an hour wage increase. | |||
| Resulted in | Industry wide 18½ ¢ an hour (~17%) wage increase. Government allowance of $5 a ton increase in steel prices for steel industry | |||
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The 1946 US steel strike was a several months long strike of 750,000 steel workers of the United Steelworkers union. It was a part of larger wave of labor disputes, known as the US strike wave of 1945–1946 after the end of World War II, and remains the largest strike in US history.
The strike started on January 21, 1946, after failed negotiations and fully ended by April, after the steel industry agreed to a wage increase of 18½ ¢ an hour for steel workers in individual agreements.