What Bundist influence on American labor history can teach a new generation of Jewish workers
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We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.
Mike Quill was one of the most effective labor organizers in the United States. Studying his life and actions will help us deal with the current Fascist threat and Gestapo tactics we are facing in the United States.
My book is quenching the throats of those who are sick of seeing the wealthy and powerful credited with everything good in the county and the working families castigated for their backwardness by the privileged members of both political parties.
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Pass the torch in remembrance, Brothers and Sisters,
In memory, and In might!
For every soul who dared say, no!
So we could one day say yes to fair wages,
Say yes to dignity!
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.
In 2023, a permanent memorial at the site of the fire was unveiled in memory of the workers. The memorial tells the stories of the victims and is a landmark site to visit, mourn, and learn at the very site where factory workers labored and perished.
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