Moore writes: "80 years ago tonight my uncle and hundreds of other workers
in Flint took over the General Motors factories and held them for 44 days
until the company recognized their union, the UAW."
The filmmaker Michael Moore, near a closed factory in Flint, Michigan, where
his father worked. (photo: Fabrizio Costantini/NYT)
It's Working People Like My Uncle That Built the Middle Class, and It's Wall
Street That Destroyed It
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
31 December 16
80 years ago tonight my unlce and hundreds of other workers in Flint took
over the General Motors factories and held them for 44 days until the
company recognized their union, the UAW. GM turned off the heat and water
and tried to starve them out. The workers prevailed and families like mine
after this were able, for the first time, to make a livable wage, enjoy what
was called a "weekend," see a doctor, own a home, buy a car, send the next
generation to college. This victory in Flint spread to other cities and
other industries and soon working people who were willing to take a stand
had a better life. Of course, this would not last more than 5 decades or so
as future generations of workers forgot how what they had was originally
obtained, taking for granted that their free health care, their generous
pensions, their month-long paid vacations and the sort would somehow be
there in perpetuity. Before long Wall Street and the banks and the elites
found ways to chip away at all those "benefits." The Democratic Party, sworn
to defend the working class as Roosevelt had on the streets of Flint, grew
weak and ineffectual and beholden in some part to the corporate class. By
the end of the 20th century, the wages were stagnant or slashed, the
benefits eliminated and the government assisted big business in efforts to
find cheaper sources of labor overseas. Flint went from being a workers
paradise to one of the poorest, most desperate cities in the country. Half
the population was able to escape into a diaspora of low-wage states, while
the other poorer, Blacker half was left behind -- only to eventually be
poisoned by the water a ruthless Republican governor made them drink. My
uncle and his brothers and sisters and entire family would not recognize
this New Year's Eve as we enter 2017, be it in Flint or throughout the rest
of Trump's America. "Trumpmerica." Of course back in Flint on this night in
1936, the only party anyone was throwing was the one to overthrow the yoke
of oppression. It was a great way to ring in the new year. It might still
be.
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The filmmaker Michael Moore, near a closed factory in Flint, Michigan, where
his father worked. (photo: Fabrizio Costantini/NYT)
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It's Working People Like My Uncle That Built the Middle Class, and It's Wall
Street That Destroyed It
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
31 December 16
80 years ago tonight my unlce and hundreds of other workers in Flint took
over the General Motors factories and held them for 44 days until the
company recognized their union, the UAW. GM turned off the heat and water
and tried to starve them out. The workers prevailed and families like mine
after this were able, for the first time, to make a livable wage, enjoy what
was called a "weekend," see a doctor, own a home, buy a car, send the next
generation to college. This victory in Flint spread to other cities and
other industries and soon working people who were willing to take a stand
had a better life. Of course, this would not last more than 5 decades or so
as future generations of workers forgot how what they had was originally
obtained, taking for granted that their free health care, their generous
pensions, their month-long paid vacations and the sort would somehow be
there in perpetuity. Before long Wall Street and the banks and the elites
found ways to chip away at all those "benefits." The Democratic Party, sworn
to defend the working class as Roosevelt had on the streets of Flint, grew
weak and ineffectual and beholden in some part to the corporate class. By
the end of the 20th century, the wages were stagnant or slashed, the
benefits eliminated and the government assisted big business in efforts to
find cheaper sources of labor overseas. Flint went from being a workers
paradise to one of the poorest, most desperate cities in the country. Half
the population was able to escape into a diaspora of low-wage states, while
the other poorer, Blacker half was left behind -- only to eventually be
poisoned by the water a ruthless Republican governor made them drink. My
uncle and his brothers and sisters and entire family would not recognize
this New Year's Eve as we enter 2017, be it in Flint or throughout the rest
of Trump's America. "Trumpmerica." Of course back in Flint on this night in
1936, the only party anyone was throwing was the one to overthrow the yoke
of oppression. It was a great way to ring in the new year. It might still
be.
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