The great Westinghouse strike of 1914 : George Westinghouse comes to the Turtle Creek Valley, [1990?].
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Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
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Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...
McCollester, Charles J.
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Between 1937-1941, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 610 won representation elections at the Wilmerding, PA and Swissvale, PA facilities of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company. In the period from 1941 to 1966, contract negotiations were successfully concluded without a strike. Short strikes of two weeks each marked the renewal of the 1969 and 1978 contracts, but these were episodes in an otherwise relatively untroubled forty year history of successful collectiv...
