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United Auto Workers strike – if it happens – should channel the legacy of Walter Reuther, who led the union at the peak of its power

  • Written by Marick Masters, Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
imageUAW President Walter Reuther, center, shakes hands with a Ford executive after agreeing on a three-year contract in 1967.Bettmann via Getty Images

The United Auto Workers are engaged in high-stakes labor negotiations that could lead to the union’s first simultaneous strike against all of Detroit’s Big Three automakers: General Motors,...

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