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Walter Reuther

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Name: Walter Reuther

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

The UAW and the Struggle for Social Justice

While many amongst us may grow weary in this time of economic crisis, political stagnation, and a resurgent radical right-wing movement bent on turning back the 20th century, we would all do well to look at other times of social crisis in American history ... [Published Daily Kos - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: United Auto Workers, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Detroit remembers 50 years after King's "I Have a Dream" speech

tags: Civil rights, workers rights, history, unions, jobs, activism, democracyDETROIT - In the summer of 1963 while working out of an office at Solidarity House, the national headquarters of the United Auto Workers Union, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drafted ... [Published People's World - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., United Auto Workers, John Rummel, C. T. Vivian

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

How Union Muscle Made Detroit's Workers The Highest Paid In the Country

One of the stunning revelations in the new documentary film, "Brothers on the Line," is the determined brutal fight led by the three Reuther brothers, Walter, Victor and Roy, to raise the pay and benefits of auto workers at General Motors General Mot ... [Published Forbes.com - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers, Workers

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Mike Lux: Living History

As I referenced in a post several days ago, I feel that there is a reenergized movement around the economic issues that is being fueled by the growing frustration of the power and control of the wealthy special interests. From the low wage worker organizing ... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Organism, Paul Booth, Tom Hayden

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

United Auto Workers

1953 Beecher tornado caused damage estimated at $161M in today's dollars

By Jeremy Allen | jallen42@mlive.com MLive.comView/Post CommentsDebris-filled basements are searched for victims in Beecher in this Flint Journal file photo.FILE | MLive.comFLINT, MI – After all the dust had settled and the damage assessed, the Beecher ... [Published Flint Journal - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Tornado, United Auto Workers, General Motors Company

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Henry Ford

King: How the Ford Motor Company Won a Battle and Lost Ground

In 1937, Walter Reuther and his United Autoworkers Union had brought General Motors and Chrysler to their knees by staging massive sit-down strikes in pursuit of higher pay, shorter hours and other improvements in workers’ lives. But when Reuther and ... [Published ZNet - May 31 2013]

Entities: Harry Bennett, Walter Reuther, Henry Ford, Richard Frankensteen, United Auto Workers

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Today in labor history: Ford goes to revolutionary Russia

tags: history, Soviet Union, autoworkersOn May 30, 1929, the Ford Motor Company signed a technical assistance contract to produce cars in the newly industrializing Soviet Union. The agreement included assistance in building a massive auto plant in Nizhny-Novgorod ... [Published People's World - May 30 2013]

Entities: Soviet Union, Technical Assistance, Russia

First reported May 26 2013 - Updated May 26 2013 - 1 reports

This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1937

On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company’s giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward ... [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - May 26 2013]

Entities: Henry Ford, United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther, Harry Bennett

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Jeremy Brecher/Joe Uehlein: 400 PPM & U.S. Labor

In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the Depression-ravaged auto industry to build 500 planes a year for national defense. Many scoffed. But a huge ... [Published ZNet - May 24 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Labor, Drought, Fossil Fuel

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Walter Reuther Statue Gets Spruced Up for Summer

Action Council Members Pitch InSave | Post a comment |WHEELING - During a conference at Oglebay Park last weekend the United Auto Workers West Virginia Community Action Council made its annual trip to Wheeling's waterfront to clean the statue of the late ... [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers, Labor Unions, Action

First reported Apr 06 2013 - Updated Apr 06 2013 - 1 reports

RFK Assassination Legal Case Update

If the public were to learn to distrust the official version of yet another assassination that changed the course of American history, where would this all end? Before long, people might wonder what happened to Martin Luther King, to labor leader Walter ... [Published OpEdNews - Apr 06 2013]

Entities: Robert F Kennedy, Assassination, Walter Reuther

First reported Feb 08 2013 - Updated Feb 08 2013 - 2 reports

Ronald Bailey: Were the Luddites Right After All?

In 1948 MIT cyberneticist Norbert Wiener wrote anurgent letter to Walter Reuther, head of the autoworkers union towarn him that modern computing technologies combined withmanufacturing machinery would soon lead to disastrous unemployment.As post-Great ... [Published REASON Online - Feb 08 2013]

Entities: Ronald Bailey, Norbert Wiener, Walter Reuther, Unemployment

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How Union Muscle Made Detroit's Workers The Hig... [Published Forbes.com - Jun 11 2013]
Mike Lux: Living History [Published Huffington Post - Jun 05 2013]
1953 Beecher tornado caused damage estimated at... [Published Flint Journal - Jun 05 2013]
King: How the Ford Motor Company Won a Battle a... [Published ZNet - May 31 2013]
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This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1937 [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - May 26 2013]
Drumbeat: May 24, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - May 24 2013]
Jeremy Brecher/Joe Uehlein: 400 PPM & U.S. Labor [Published ZNet - May 24 2013]
Walter Reuther Statue Gets Spruced Up for Summer [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Apr 14 2013]
The New Deal That Could Have Been [Published TAPPED - Apr 09 2013]
RFK Assassination Legal Case Update [Published OpEdNews - Apr 06 2013]
This Day in Labor History: March 7, 1932 [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - Mar 07 2013]
UAW steps up its visibility [Published Tennessean - Feb 09 2013]
Ronald Bailey: Were the Luddites Right After All? [Published REASON Online - Feb 08 2013]
Ronald Bailey: Were the Luddites Right After All? [Published Hit & Run - Feb 08 2013]
Is marijuana the last, best hope for labor unions? [Published Ezra Klein - Feb 07 2013]
This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1941 [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jan 25 2013]
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The UAW and the Struggle for Social Justice [Published Daily Kos - Jun 13 2013] While many amongst us may grow weary in this time of economic crisis, political stagnation, and a resurgent radical right-wing movement bent on turning back the 20th century, we would all do well to look at other times of social crisis in American history ...
This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1937 [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - May 26 2013] On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company’s giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward ...
Drumbeat: May 24, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - May 24 2013] Crude Landlocked as Canadians Join U.S. to Halt Pipelines British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super, Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.” That’s potentially big trouble in a ...
The New Deal That Could Have Been [Published TAPPED - Apr 09 2013] Invoking “dysfunction” is now the basic black of punditry about American politics. As the British political theorist David Runciman recently observed in the London Review of Books, “Commentators find it almost impossible to write about American democracy ...
RFK Assassination Legal Case Update [Published OpEdNews - Apr 06 2013] If the public were to learn to distrust the official version of yet another assassination that changed the course of American history, where would this all end? Before long, people might wonder what happened to Martin Luther King, to labor leader Walter ...