2018/01/18 by Lane Windham · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Engineering · #Labor Movements and Unions #Shipyard #Political science #Civil rights #Law #Engineering #History #Shipbuilding #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632070.003.0005
openalex publication_date 2018/01/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This chapter recounts the successful effort by a multi-racial group of 19,000 men and women at the Newport News shipyard to form a union with the steelworkers union in 1978, and a brutal strike in 1979 in which the workers fought for a union contract. The civil and women’s rights movements clearly fed the union fire in this organizing campaign.