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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 30 December 1936, 50 workers at the Flint General Motors plant sat down on wildcat strike against the forcible transfer of three inspectors who had been ordered to quit the union, but refused. When workers noticed...

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On this day, 30 December 1936, 50 workers at the Flint General Motors plant sat down on wildcat strike against the forcible transfer of three inspectors who had been ordered to quit the union, but refused. When workers noticed management make preparations to transfer production elsewhere, the mostly non-union workforce occupied the plant, and defied court injunctions and violent attacks from guards and police holding out till February when the company caved in, granted union recognition and the balance of power between workers and bosses was decisively changed.
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  1. transrobotfag said: @the-piston makes sense! Thanks for the informative reply!
  2. the-piston said: On top of that, Walter P Reuther died at the onset of the 1970s and as leader of the UAW he made significant efforts to keep the union clean. This also coincided with liberal thought leaders who were generally anti corruption among public and union officials, like RFK. A perfect storm for the decline in quality of the union.
  3. the-piston said: @deergirlanarchist lotta people have discussed why the UAW fell from most progressive and cleanest union to the current status and a huge part of it is that the labor laws passed in the early 50s would stop a new UAW from ever being created - Wildcat strikes, like the Flint sit-down, were banned and in the same era many unions had to exile their communist, anarchist, and even socialist aligned leadership in an era of McCarthyism and a reactionary FBI.
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  14. transrobotfag said: @the-piston sad to see how the UAW fares today given this
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