So-called Right to Work laws (more familiar as “right to work for less” laws to those in the labor movement) are state laws which make it illegal for workers to negotiate labor agreements requiring all employees who enjoy the benefit of collective bargaining to pay their fair share of the costs associated with negotiating, administering [...]
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The 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike
Over seventy years ago something momentous occurred in American labor history. It was a defining moment in the efforts of American working men and women to achieve basic fairness in the workplace. That event was the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937. The UAW had held its first convention in 1935 and decided shortly after that [...]