1946 Oakland general strike

1946 Oakland general strike
On the first day of the general strike, crowds gather in the streets, blocking traffic in downtown Oakland.
DateDecember 3–5, 1946
Location
MethodsStriking
Parties
Workers
Number
50,000[1]

The 1946 Oakland general strike was general strike involving 50,000 workers over two days in Oakland, California, United States. Beginning at 5:00am on December 3, it ended two days later on December 5 at 11:00am.[2] The strike followed a previous, smaller scale strike action by 400 female employees of Hastings and Kahn's, who had walked out in the fall of 1946 because of the resistance Oakland's retail merchants had to unionization.[3] It was part of a strike wave which began the year prior following the end of the World War II.

  1. ^ Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1947-01-01). "Work Stoppages Caused by Labor-Management Disputes in 1946 : Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 918". Analysis of Work Stoppages. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Wolman, Philip J. (1975). "The Oakland General Strike Of 1946". Southern California Quarterly. 57 (2): 147–178. doi:10.2307/41170592. ISSN 0038-3929.
  3. ^ "We Called it a Work Holiday: The 1946 Oakland General Strike". Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 16 June 2013.