Workers' rights won an early victory at Flint GM plant in 1936
By Kevin O’Kelly Correspondent Even before the job losses of the pandemic, many American workers were facing a tough situation. In recent years, fed-up employees – from fast-food workers to university adjunct instructors – have seen little choice but to unionize. The signs of a rising new labor movement makes journalist Edward McClelland’s latest book, “Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class,” remarkably timely. McClelland details what was arguably the most important strike in American history. On Dec. 30, 1936, a few...
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