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The UAW Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library (@reutherlibrary), the UAW's official repository. Open to the public, learn more at http://reuther.wayne.edu. Proud Wayne Academic Union member.
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"Our Union is no turkey"
🦃 Thanksgiving themed issue of Local 834 News, newsletter for the Philadelphia @uaw.org local. November 1989. From the UAW Publications at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Newsletter for union local publication. "THANKS, UAW Our Union is no turkey Turkey, dressing, and pumpkin pie ... hm-m-m, the smells almost jump off the AS UAW members and our gather around tables this Thanksgiving, there is much to be thankful for union-won wages, health-care benefits, job security programs, and pensions. thankful that Union workers $5-an-hour benefits than the non-union norm. $2-plus advantage Union benefits to only $3.45 for workers without"
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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If you fridge is full of turkey after Thanksgiving, feel free to use those leftovers to make @uaw.org President Walter Reuther's personal recipe for turkey mornay with broccoli. From his papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Recipe for turkey mornay with broccoli. Ingrediente: 1 package frozen broccoli, or 1 bunch fresh 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 1 cup turkey broth made by simmering the giblets and neck in water, or canned chicken broth 1/2 cup light cream 1/2 cup sauterne Worcestershire sauce 2 cups cooked turkey, sliced or coarsely diced grated Parmesan cheese salt and pepper Cook the broccoli until tender. Drain, and arrange on bottom of greased casserole. Melt butter and stir in flour. Add turkey stock and cream. Cook, stirring, until blended and then add the wine and seasonings. Arrange the turkey on top of the broccoli. Pour in the sauce. Sprinkle the top lavishly with the grated cheese. Bake in a moderately hot oven (400 degrees) for 20 minutes, or until brown and bubbly. Serves 4. Photo of Walter Reuther eating corn.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The latest episode of Tales from the Reuther Library features @afacwa.org president @flyingwithsara.bsky.social! Check it out on your favorite podcast app. @reutherlibrary.bsky.social #LaborHistory #podcasts
Talking History with AFA President Sara Nelson
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November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"We fight for a better tomorrow..."
@uaw.org poster from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
UAW-CIO poster with the caption, "We fight for a better tomorrow..."
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Respect for Jasper. Of all the fact-checkers I’ve dealt with from the press, the New Yorker’s are the most thorough and dogged.
newyorkerunion.bsky.social The New Yorker Union @newyorkerunion.bsky.social · 17d
Last week, Condé Nast fired four staffers, including Jasper Lo, a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, in an act of illegal union-busting. Join us tomorrow at 6pm to demand that the company reverse this unjust and unlawful decision.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This 1974 cover of @uaw.org Ammunition made me realize we are at the very end of the best season of the year here in Michigan. Enjoy those remaining fall colors while you got ‘em, folks. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.🍂
Cover of Ammunition magazine, with cartoon of tree with leaves and squirrels. Headline is “Autumn.”
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Gloria McCabe, @afscme.bsky.social Council 97 member, had an unusual commute to work w/ the AZ Department of Economic Security. 4X a year, she and colleagues traveled all day by horse into the #GrandCanyon to the most remote Native American reservation in the US. #NativeAmericanHeritage #Arizona
In 1983, a woman, Gloria McCabe, in a warm coat faces the camera as she stands next to two horses wearing bridles. Trees fill the background. From the AFSCME Communications Department records at the Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Space Shuttle: It's Meaning to Labor & the United Auto Workers"
Pamphlet from @uaw.org advocating NASA to develop a reusable space shuttle system and why it should be union-built. From the UAW Aerospace Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🚀👩‍🚀
Cover of "Space Shuttle: It's meaning to labor & the United Auto Workers" pamphlet, with early drawing of NASA space shuttle. Made by UAW in conjunction with North American Rockwell Space Division. "Why Space Shuttle Now" graph showing the pros and cons of "if we wait" versus "if we go ahead." From Space Shuttle: It's meaning to labor & the United Auto Workers pamphlet.
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Pamphlets on "right-to-work" repeal, social safety net, and raising the min. wage, from America's leading civil rights leaders. Includes MLK, Bayard Rustin, and more. Made by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1960s.
From @uaw.org President Walter Reuther's archive at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Pamphlets on "Repeal 14b," "Urge congress to increase and extend unemployment benefits for all workers," and "Extend the minimum wage!' from the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Contents of a pamphlet on "Repeal 14b," co-signed by James Farmer, MLK, A. Philip Randolph, and Roy Wilkins. Pamphlet on A. Philip Randolph Institute, with photo of Randolph.
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Agricultural implement workers from @uaw.org Local 1301 on strike. Chicago area, circa 1950s. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Picket line of workers from UAW-CIO Local 1301, tractor workers, holding picket signs.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This was my favorite radio program growing up, I even still have cassettes of old shows I taped on my boombox. So proud to be a supporter of @wdet.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the #EdmundFitzgerald on #LakeSuperior. This documentary from @clickondetroit.com uses the WDIV archives at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social and features our AV department's #Steenbeck (film viewing machine): www.clickondetroit.com/features/202...
Watch: The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later (full extended cut documentary)
It’s been 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
www.clickondetroit.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Pamphlet for the Brookwood Labor Players chautauqua program, a traveling show teaching about labor solidarity. Performances included plays, songs, and "novelty numbers" about labor. In fact, many early @uaw.org leaders were Brookwood alum. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Cover for Brookwood Labor Players promotional pamphlet. Has photo of a play about labor negotiations. Inside of Brookwood Players pamphlet. Has pictures of the group painting their bus, a performance mimicking an assembly line, and a play about a company union.
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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If you want to win the city-wide bar trivia tourney, take it to the next level and get an archivist. My grad school bar trivia team of future archivists had a future Jeopardy! super champion and another who qualified for the show. As a profession, we are somehow nerdier than librarians.
rocketcheddar.bsky.social Hector Rodriguez @rocketcheddar.bsky.social · 22d
Anyone looking for a ringer for their bar trivia team, get a librarian.
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22d
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Bilingual newspaper from @uaw.org Local 51 as the union organized the many Polish immigrant autoworkers who had settled in the Detroit area. 1941. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
UAW newspaper with articles in both English and Polish. Front page of The Beacon UAW local 51 newspaper. January 1941.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Another reason to support @detcityfc.com? DCFC payers are unionized with USL Local 7211!
Banner at DCFC game that says "Support your ballers" and "Local #7211."
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Don't judge a book by its cover...Who would guess these cutesy scrapbooks contain dramatic history of the early @uaw.org? From the John Eldon Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, they're scrapbooks of news clippings about 1930s autoworker organizing. 📰🐶
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Three scrapbook covers. One with an image of deer, another with a black and white dog, and the other with terriers. Newspaper clipping of people demonstrating outside a Dodge Motor plant in Detroit. 1939.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Also, it's Halloween and the last day of American archives month!
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 28d
BIG WEEK for @uawarchivist.bsky.social:

1) given improper credit by me
2) given proper credit by the union
uaw.org UAW @uaw.org · 28d
Enlisting the assistance of Gavin Strassel, @uawarchivist.bsky.social for the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social at Wayne State University proved to be the detective they needed.
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"Don't Let 'Em Scare You!"👻😱🏚️
#Halloween haunted house-themed flyer from @uaw.org Local 1069, telling members about their legal rights to wear a union button with pride, no matter what their foreman threatens.
1953, from UAW Aerospace Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social
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mage of a haunted house and ghosts. Text reads: ""DON'T LET ‘EM SCARE YOU!” It has been called to our attention that certain foremen are again threatening or coercing or intimidating workers but demanding that they take off UAW-CIO buttons, and in the next breath, the same foremen will ask that workers nut on a PC button. And some foremen are again droning broad hints that certain workers won't be around long if they continue their support of UAM-CIO and Local 1069. Tell, we want to say this…UAW-CIO encourages all workers to wear the Badge of honor, a UAW-CIO button; and we prompt you to solicit on your own time and on company premises, all possible UAW-CIO support! As workers you are protected by the Laws of this land in this endeavor and UAW-CIO came to you to see that you enjoy these rights! And we want you to know that the moral and physical and financial resources of the whole UAW-CIO International Union are supporting you in this campaign!! A word to the wise is usually suffice"
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Enlisting the assistance of Gavin Strassel, @uawarchivist.bsky.social for the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social at Wayne State University proved to be the detective they needed.
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Such and honor and so much fun to be a part of this event!
uaw.org UAW @uaw.org · 28d
🧵 Solidarity House had some very special guests last week!

Former Ford workers, Jim and Cheryl Bassett, purchased a vintage Ford station wagon from UAW Local 174 around 10 years ago. It was a bit worn and dusty from being stored for decades, but it appeared to be something special.
Photo of Jim and Cheryl Bassett and UAW Archivist Gavin Strassel in front of Solidarity House with an old Ford station wagon that was used by UAW Local 174 in the late 1940s and 1950s to organize workers. News clipping from the United Automobile Worker, Westside 174 Conveyor Edition from February 1949 featuring a Ford station wagon purchased by the local to use as a sound car, with union leaders Ed Reno and George Lyons trying out to the new purchase. Old Ford station wagon that was used by UAW Local 174 to organize workers in the late 1940s and 1950s. Photo of the inside of a 1949 Ford station wagon purchased by UAW Local 174 as a sound car to organize workers in the late 1940s and 1950s. Includes a cardboard cutout of a smiling UAW President Walter Reuther behind the wheel.
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Gulliver breaks his bonds
Cartoon from 1941 issue of United Automobile Worker, newspaper of the @uaw.org. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Giant worker breaking free from bonds of miniature people, each labeled with anti-labor interests. Such as nazi, Harry Bennett, industry, and fascist. Reference to Gulliver’s Travels.
October 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Halloween hoopla!
👻🧙‍♀️🦇October 1989 issue of The 1866 Voice, publication for @uaw.org Local 1866. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🎃🏚️🌙
October 1989 issue of The 1866 Voice. Has picture of haunted house and ghosts.
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM