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Stories from the Ford plant

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Autoworkers in Detroit and around the country mobilized in the 1930s to achieve collective bargaining rights. Chrysler and General Motors accepted the newly-formed United Autoworkers into their plants in 1937, but Henry Ford refused to acknowledge the UAW. It would be another four years before Ford, encouraged by his wife Clara, would accept the UAW. Courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Posted on January 1, 1941January 8, 2019 by Geoff Myers

1941

Ford Motor Company organized by UAW; Local 879 forms new charter, July 18; federal government converts auto industry to war production; U.S. enters WWII

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“Made in St. Paul: Stories from the Ford plant” is a TPT partnerships co-production with Highland District Council. Produced by Myers Communications Group.

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Sponsored by the following:  The John and Ruth Huss Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation, The Katherine B. Andersen Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation, Brookfield Renewable, The Hognander Family Foundation of The Minneapolis Foundation, Elizabeth B. Myers, The Allegro Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation, UAW-Region 4, Ackerberg Group, Pearle Vision Highland, and UAW Local 879 Retirees

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