Flip to Striking steelworkers picketing outside the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation plant at Homestead, PA., January 21, 1946.Close Window
Credit: UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Soon after the end of World War II, the CIO’s three largest unions–the United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers, and the UE–engaged in a national strike to regain economic ground lost by workers during the war, when wages had been frozen while industries profited.
