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Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

Update: 2024-02-13

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The United Auto Workers achieved a real breakthrough in their 2023 strike against the Big Three automakers. For this episode, our new editor-at-large Micah Uetricht interviews longtime labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about his piece in the Spring 2024 issue of New Labor Forum assessing the wins in the contract, the corruption scandals and subsequent new union leadership victory that led to the strike, the UAW's prospects for riding this momentum into organizing nonunion automakers like Volkswagen and Tesla, and more.

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Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

Episode 47 - "The 2023 UAW Strike: A Turning Point in Labor History?"

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