by Justin | Jul 14, 2020 | Education, Labor History
After the Civil War, industrialists engaged in an enormous rail building program. Much of this was funded through shaky and corrupt means, leading to the Panic of 1873. When the bubble burst in 1873, many railroads went bankrupt and those who survived forced workers...
by Justin | Jul 12, 2020 | Education, Labor History
Mine owners in Bisbee, Arizona round up Wobblies, Mexicans, and anyone they found suspicious and drop them into the New Mexico desert. Let’s talk about the Bisbee Deportation and the huge violations of workers’ rights in World War I. The summer of 1917 was...
by Justin | Jul 5, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Education, NLRB
This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935 — FDR signed the National Labor Relations Act via Historian, Erik Loomis “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation gave workers a fair...
by Justin | Jul 2, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Education, UAW History
Some experts, including dissidents within and labor analysts on the outside, raise a larger issue: whether the union understands that a fundamental restructuring of the auto industry worldwide is occurring. These experts, including Harley Shaiken, a work specialist at...
by Justin | Jun 22, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Education, General Motors, UAW History, Uncategorized
The strike itself is sometimes actually part of the strategy to control the workers – albeit a costly one. A fascinating series of articles in the Wall Street Journal described “union-management cooperation” to get the workers back to work and build...
by Justin | Jun 17, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Education, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW History
What follows is a somewhat complex tale of what happens when a labor union, structured to be unaccountable to the rank-and-file membership, embraces a system of labor-management cooperation rather than a class-conscious understanding that workers and their employers...
