A Strike for Change

ID: 2493 ~ Source: Joan Sanger and Myron Wood Collection, Box 2, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
This file appears in: Owens-Illinois
A Strike for Change

In 1968, the women of the Waco plant went on strike for pregnancy insurance. That year was a tumultuous one filled with multiple strikes for the company nationwide.

This file appears in: Owens-Illinois

By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…