by Justin | Dec 26, 2020 | Labor History, Organizing, UE
For unions in America, a fundamental problem is apathy. Members do not want to get involved, and a component of this is that there is not a sense of what the union stands for and what being in a union means. It may not be a coincidence that the book is published by...
by Justin | Dec 25, 2020 | Farm Equipment Workers (FE), Labor History
They crop up right around now, along with the ads for mattress sales: the annual assessments of the state of the American labor movement. There will be a certain mournful sameness to these Labor Day reflections. While wages stagnate and inequality escalates, union...
by Justin | Oct 27, 2020 | Ford, Labor History, UAW History
The Ford Hunger March — also known as the Ford Massacre — served as a turning point in the story of organized labor in Detroit and across the U.S. The incident helped catalyze the creation of the United Auto Workers. But it was scarcely memorialized locally. For...
by Justin | Oct 7, 2020 | General Motors, Labor History, UAW History
To earn worker trust and the right to speak for them, the upstart union had to confront and defeat GM, the industrial colossus that controlled almost 45 percent of domestic auto sales and employed 240,000 workers in 69 plants. In 1936, GM’s net profits approached $284...
by Justin | Sep 20, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, & Money Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1977. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company shut down its operations, laying off approximately 4,100 workers....
by Justin | Sep 15, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis on Lawyers, Guns, & Money Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1845. Women working in the Pittsburgh textile mills met in Market Square to discuss the necessity of...
