by Justin | Oct 24, 2020 | Dodge, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), FCA, Ford, General Motors
Auto work is typically remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered, however, is how absolutely brutal and violent life on the auto factory floor was — and still is. Read the article here.
by Justin | Jun 13, 2020 | Dodge, Education, UAW History
On this day in labor history, the year was 1974. That was the day workers at the Dodge Truck plant in Warren, Michigan went out on a wildcat strike. Workers were fed up with endless attacks from management and disappointing contract negotiations the year before....