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...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...
Solidarity House may have been an appropriate term for the UAW's headquarters once, but the name is not quite so applicable...
...older workers in general are much more willing to take what they get in the contract and leave it at that. This is partly because they have developed an affinity to the plants: Most of the older, UAW-represented workers manning the picket lines have been at the same plant for most of their lives. And the older workers see in their youthful colleagues a certain intransigence with which they associate indifference toward the plant, the people with whom they work and the future of the union...
There are many women on the line at the Hamtramck plant--the oldest of Chrysler's Detroit area facilities--and three currently hold the position of foreman. The UAW contract with the company does forbid women from lifting heavy items, which severely limits the number of jobs they can have. So most of the women who work on the line are in the trim shop, paint shop, or final shop...
Most contract disputes polarize labor and management while they strengthen the bonds between employees within the union. But in some ways, the strike of UAW-represented blue collar workers against the Chrysler corporation seems to have tightened the relationship of the union and the employer at the expense of enunciating the conflicts between employees on the assembly line...