by Justin | Feb 11, 2021 | Labor History, UAW History
Tired of reductions in pay and jobs, increased workloads, and harassment of United Automobile Workers organizers, on December 30, 1936 automotive workers in the General Motors Fisher Number One Plant in Flint, Michigan sat down on the job. For the next 44 days workers...
by Justin | Feb 4, 2021 | Labor History, Social Issues, UAW History, Walter Reuther
The United States now honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of remembrance each January. However, while he was alive, his public disapproval ratings were as high as 75%. Many Americans disliked him for a variety of his stances, from...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Labor History
Gallup has reported that two-thirds of people in the United States approve of labor unions, the highest rating in two decades. And yet, unions represent the smallest share of the workforce in one hundred years—fewer than before there was a legal right to form a union...
by Justin | Jan 27, 2021 | Labor History
The list of Pinkerton injustices against the working class spans centuries, and as a new report from Motherboard appears to show, the agency is keeping up with the times. The Pinkertons, who are now a subsidiary of Swedish security company Securitas AB, are reportedly...
by Justin | Jan 11, 2021 | Labor History, UAW History
FLINT, Michigan — Striking General Motors workers battled Flint police at GM’s Fisher Body No. 2 in a bloody night of fighting and a turning point in the Sit-Down Strike 75 years ago today. Known as the “Battle of the Running Bulls,” the night...
by Justin | Dec 28, 2020 | General Motors, Labor History, Organizing, UAW History
84 years ago today, the 1936-37 Flint sit down-strike began at General Motors. It was a defining moment for the UAW that would end up improving the lives of millions of workers across the country. Jeremy Brecher’s account of the great sit-down strike in the...
