A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.
Can’t Understand a Word (2019), Go to Jail and Stay There (1964), Deadly Force on Film (1937), Just Following Orders (1779), A New Broom for Civil Rights (1909), Too Young to Work? Think Again. (1924), 149 Seconds (1954), Wasn’t That a Time? (1949)
Rather than using traditional organizing committee structures, the UAW relied heavily on digital meetings, a light staff approach from the international union, and getting workers to sign union cards via QR codes. It was a gamble but worth it.
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