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Pro-Palestine protesters march to Northwestern High School hours before Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the high school in Detroit during a Labor Day rally on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.
The strike was observed by some 4,000 workers, lasted 2.5 days and prevented the production of 3,000 cars. In the subsequent Local 3 election, DRUM ran as an alternative slate. Although it did not win, the new organization drew notice for its militancy and willingness to challenge the UAW hierarchy.
More: 5 memorable visits to Detroit by presidential candidates on Labor Day Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses union members at the annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in Detroit.
United States Department of Labor National Labor Relations Board: Primary legislation: National Labor Relations Act Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 Taft–Hartley Act: Total union membership: 14.3 million (2022) [1] Percentage of workforce unionized: 10.1% (2022) Public: 33.1%; Private: 6.0%; International Labour Organization; United States is ...
"The objects of this Association are to protect its members from unjust and injurious competition, and secure through unity of action among all workers of the industry throughout the United States and Canada, claiming, as we do, that labor is capital, and is the only capital that possesses power to reproduce itself or in other words, to create ...
Here are five notable Labor Day visits to Detroit by past presidential candidates. Harry S. Truman, 1948 Harry S. Truman visited Detroit as an incumbent president but a political underdog.
Both the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor had each chartered a labor union for auto workers, both named the UAW. The UAW-CIO met in Cleveland, representing 370,000 members, and elected R. J. Thomas, who was a former Chrysler worker and the former Vice President of the UAW-AFL union.
In 1952, Adlai Stevenson spoke in Detroit on Labor Day followed by John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Contact Clara Hendrickson at chendrickson@freepress.com or 313-296-5743.