A number of leaders of this organization were attacked in 1937 by company agents in an incident called "The Battle of the Overpass." Founded in 1935 under the auspices of the AFL, it was one of the groups which broke away to form the Congress of Industrial Organizations before those unions merged. I
A number of leaders of this organization were attacked in 1937 by company agents in an incident called "The Battle of the Overpass." Founded in 1935 under the auspices of the AFL, it was one of the groups which broke away to form the Congress of Industrial Organizations before those unions merged. Its first major success came with a sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, and this group had once distributed a leaflet called "Unionism, Not Fordism." Now also representing workers in the aerospace and farm-machine building fields, FTP what is this union most famously led by Walter Reuther (roy-ther), which comprises people who build cars and trucks?
A number of leaders of this organization were attacked in 1937 by company agents in an incident called "The Battle of the Overpass."
UAW