{"id":18356,"date":"2019-02-13T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-strike-that-changed-u-s-labor\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:59:44","slug":"the-strike-that-changed-u-s-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-strike-that-changed-u-s-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strike That Changed U.S. Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On February 11, 1937, General Motors and the United Auto Workers union signed a landmark agreement. A union contract. The relationship with U.S. automakers and the labor movement ushered in a period of tremendous worker prosperity and union strength that lasted decades. Today, though, unions are a shadow of their former selves and are sometimes even vilified for dragging down companies and hamstringing workers. What happened? How did unions lose their mojo?<\/p>\n

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On February 11, 1937, General Motors and the United Auto Workers union signed a landmark agreement. A union contract. The relationship with U.S. automakers and the labor movement ushered in a period of tremendous worker prosperity and union strength that lasted decades. Today, though, unions are a shadow of their former selves and are sometimes even vilified for dragging down companies and hamstringing workers. What happened? How did unions lose their mojo?<\/p>\n

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Find us: <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>\/ <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Subscribe to our show on <\/em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>NPR One<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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