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Local 506 members celebrate the United Electrical Workers victory over the IUE, Erie, PA, December 7, 1954.
Credit: UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
In 1954 General Electric fired union leader John Nelson from his job as a machine set up man. He remained president of Local 506, which that December defeated the rival IUE and its bid to unseat the UE as the bargaining agent for GE’s electrical workers.