Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union did not win a complete victory by any means. The UAW had demanded what amounted to a four-day work week and the abolition of the attendance requirement--but the tentative contract states that a worker must be on the job the days before and after his or her scheduled day off to be paid...
...force in American labor after World War II. Second only to Meany in power, Reuther wanted the AFL-CIO to fight harder to recruit new members and to crusade more. Stubbornly, Meany took a pragmatic, go-slow approach ("ideology is baloney," he says). Bitter with frustration, Reuther pulled his UAW...
...Eldon Avenue plant, a machine that had been kept in bad repair. Accidents were so common at the plant that there was one serious injury per employee every year. The day after Gary Thompson was crushed, the Eldon workers walked out--their third wildcat strike in two months. The UAW local didn't support the walkout, though dissident groups inside the plant--like the all-black Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement--did. Johnson saw all this, and joined it to his own experience: the injuries, the conditions, the bullying foremen who called him "nigger" and "boy." In May he hurt...
...been fired during the wildcat, except those who signed a pledge promising no more walkouts, Johnson had no one to help him. By the time a substitute steward got there the foreman in charge had already started writing out the order to fire him, without the required informal UAW conference. They scolded him and told him he was fired. Later that day Johnson came back with an M-1 carbine and shot the foreman who had fired him. Then he shot another foreman and a fellow worker. Three people killed. He did not resist arrest...
...following week in the United States, congressmen protested, editorials condemned American support of the junta, and among others UAW president Leonard Woodcock said: "The power of the dictatorship has rested on the twin base of arms and credits, both supplied in abundance by the U.S. Its reputation was internationally vouched for by Spiro T. Agnew, the convicted tax-evader...