Women picketing Philadelphia Transportation Company
Permanent ID:
2017
Date:
1946
Image Description:
Women picket Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) for better wages for their husbands. Between 1946 and 1967, there were a number of biannual protests between the Transport Workers Union and the management of the Philadelphia Transportation Company regarding to the demand for wage increases. Employees and the union would demand the company increase their wages citing that PTC was more prosperous than they cared to admit and PTC would always state there was no money to pay for wage increases. Nevertheless, every time a strike ensued PTC would eventually settle providing significant increases to employees’ wages.
Address:
Philadelphia
Format:
Photographs
