[news] One Sided Class War

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

In 1978, then **United Auto Worker** (UAW) President Douglas Fraser, frustrated with corporate America's new aggressiveness, accused U.S. business of waging a "one- sided class war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society." In response, he warned, "we in the UAW intend to reforge the links with those who believe in struggle: the kind of people who sat-down in the factories in the 1930s and who marched in Selma in the 1960s." The threat was...not serious and the promised identification with the movement gave way to a deeper identification with the companies. Auto workers, and American workers more generally, have been paying the price since. 

  


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