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Mass demonstration by Locals 506 and 618 against GE layoffs, Erie, PA, May 6, 1952
Credit: UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
In the 1940s and 1950s, workers in GE's Erie plant represented by Local 506 of the Electrical Workers union staged a series of strikes and engaged in a bitter turf war with the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), a more conservative, rival union formed by the CIO.