by UAWD Steering Committee | Jan 4, 2024 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Administration Caucus, Direct Elections, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Historical UAW Movements, In These Times, New Directions Movement, One Member One Vote, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW History, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Barry Eidlin writes for In These Times: None of what Fain’s administration has accomplished in its few short months in office would have been possible without the organizing that UAWD did first to win the right to vote, then to get the Members United slate elected....
by Justin | Feb 8, 2022 | Autoworkers, Detroit Bureau, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), General Gordon Baker, Joe Szczesny, Labor History, UAW History
Back in the 1960s, as the Civil Rights movement spread through American cities large and small and discussions of the use of Black Power multiplied, Detroit’s auto factories — and within the UAW — became the focus of protests by the Black working class. ...
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 11, 2020 | Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Education, UAW History
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was a radical organization of black autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan who were dissatisfied with working conditions at Chrysler and with the response of their union, the United Autoworkers (UAW). DRUM grew out of the Black...
