United Auto Workers

The new president of the United Auto Workers, Bob King, has called for picket lines in front of  Toyota dealers, ostensibly because Toyota manufacturing and assembly plants in the US, like all other foreign-owned assembly and manufacturing plants in the US, are non-union.You can read more about it here, at the Detroit News. One is [...]

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The 1967 riots tore Detroit apart. As a Democrat stronghold in a liberal Democrat state with strong union (United Auto Workers) representation, it became the test case for the Kennedy/Johnson administration’s New Frontier. It also created what was to become the cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Johnson’s Great Society initiative. This [...]

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