by UAWD Steering Committee | Feb 10, 2024 | UAW History
UAWD hosted a special event over Zoom on White Shirt Day in remembrance of the UAW Flint sit-down strike of 1936 and 1937. On Saturday, February 10, members joined to learn about how organizing builds worker power, from the Sit Down Strike of 1937 to the Stand Up...
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 UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 7, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, American Prospect, Harold Meyerson, Shawn Fain, UAW History, UAWD in the News, Walter Reuther
Harold Meyerson writes for the American Prospect: Like the Reutherites, Fain and his cohorts had to wrest control of the UAW from an incumbent regime, though the lines of this conflict did not, at first glance, seem to be drawn around political concerns. After a...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 15, 2022 | In These Times, Labor History, UAW History, UAWD in the News, United Mine Workers (UMWA)
Steve Early writes for In These Times: Today, at a time when labor militants are again embracing a “rank-and-file strategy” to revitalize unions and change their leadership, the MFD’s unprecedented victory — and its turbulent aftermath — remains relevant and...
by Justin | Feb 11, 2022 | Autoworkers, General Motors, Labor History, Organizing, UAW History
White Shirt Day was started in 1948 by Sit-Down Striker Bert Christensen, as a way to remind the younger workers just what the veterans had gone through to win them health care, job security, paid vacations, and pensions. During the strike, GM cut off the heat in the...
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. ...
