US Labor History
1950-1959
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- 1950
- United States enters Korean War
- CIO expels nine unions for alleged Communist domination
- United Auto Workers and General Motors sign a contract that provides
for pensions, automatic
- cost-of-living wage adjustments, and guaranteed increases over the
life of the contract
- "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners begin
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- 1951
- UAW president Walter Reuther elected president of CIO
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- 1952
- President Truman seizes the steel industry when the steel companies
reject the Wage
- Stabilization Board recommendations. Supreme Court rules the action
unconstitutional
- George Meany becomes president of the AFL
- Walter Reuther becomes president of the CIO
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected
- Steel Strike
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- 1953
- AFL and CIO agree to a "no raiding" pact. AFL expels the
International Longshoremen's
- Association for corruption
- Louisiana Sugar Cane Workers' Strike
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- 1954
- Kohler Strike begins
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- 1955
- United Auto Workers win supplementary unemployment benefits in bargaining
with Ford
- AFL and CIO merge with George Meany as first president, UMWA remains
independent
- Southern Telephone Strike
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- 1956
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected
- East Coast Longshoremen's Strike
- Steel Strike
- Canadian Labour Congress founded
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- 1957
- AFL-CIO expels Teamsters, Bakery Workers, and Laundry Workers for
corruption
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- 1959
- Congress passes the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
(Landrum-Griffin),
- which regulates the internal affairs of unions
- Steel Strike
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