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The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs was established at Wayne State University in 1960 to collect and preserve original documents related to the American labor movement. [2] The library is named for early United Auto Workers organizer and president Walter Reuther .
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. ... Celia Keenan-Bolger [265] Maggie Keenan-Bolger [266] Brian Kelly ...
The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA, stylized as LiUNA! ), often shortened to just the Laborers' Union , is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2017, they had about 500,000 members, [ 3 ] about 80,000 of whom are in Canada .
Fresh faces. Wearing Teamster gear, Jim Duhadway, 71, of East China Township said he’d always wanted to join the parade. His father and grandfather both worked for the county road commission ...
Michigan has a long labor history with union movements in the state's homegrown autos industry often credited with setting a high middle class standard of living for manufacturing workers.
Detroit labor activist Martin Glaberman estimated at the time that the Hamtramck plant was 70 per cent black while the union local (UAW Local 3), the plant management and lower supervision, and the Hamtramck city administration was dominated by older Polish-American workers.
With labor and union representation in the background, including UAW President Shawn Fain, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Northwestern High School in Detroit during a Labor Day rally on ...
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.The League united a number of different Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) that were growing rapidly across the auto industry and other industrial sectors—industries in which Black workers were concentrated in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s.