Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everyone knows how brutal this society is. If you're in any kind of a minority, the name of the game is organization. The way to get there was obvious in 1962 and 1963. Martin Luther King mobilized Birmingham's blacks and they stopped this city the way that UAW stopped auto production. And they can do it again. That's how you get respect in this society...
...elite committee of five union chiefs and five leaders of blue-ribbon corporations. Crusty AFL-CIO President Meany, who stormed off the Pay Board a year ago, has agreed to serve on the committee. So have Steelworkers President I.W. Abel, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, Seafarers President Paul Hall and UAW Chief Leonard Woodcock. The business members are Stephen Bechtel Jr., president of Bechtel Corp., a huge engineering and construction firm; Edward Carter, chairman of the Broadway-Hale department-store chain; R. Heath Larry, vice chairman of U.S. Steel; James Roche, retired chairman of General Motors; and Walter Wriston, chairman...
...surface, the whole higher education bill seemed doomed under the conflicting crossfire of the busing arguments. Opposed were liberal Congressmen, the House Black Caucus, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the UAW and the League of Women Voters, all because they did not want any busing restrictions. Also against it were Southern Congressmen, many conservatives and the House Republican leadership, because they felt the busing limits were inadequate. Only the most skillful maneuvering by House Democratic leaders, who played on the fears of both opposing forces, pushed it through. As one key operator, Indiana...
...workers. The GM sit-down strike broke this barrier, which business swore would never fall. The flood tide brought non-union workers to the doors of every CIO affiliate no matter what local. Mortimer found himself negotiating for strikers from power to aircraft industries under the auspices of the UAW because, as he put it, "it was the only CIO union thereabouts...
...channels. Hillman was FDR's labor lieutenant, always trying to catch the President's ear. He was forced on more than one occassion to order strikers back to work when FDR or business interests so pressured. In just such a conflict Mortimer was finally removed from leadership in the UAW because he sided with the strikers in the aircraft union he organized...