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- Description:
- Uniformed police officers form a line in front of mainly female striking telephone workers during strike against AT&T in Detroit, Michigan.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1947-04-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Uniformed soldiers wearing helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets speak to a small group of men in front of a house during automobile strike in Toledo, Ohio.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1934-05-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- UAW President Leonard Woodcock stands at a podium addressing union delegates during the 1970 General Motors strike. He is asking them to vote to increase union dues to finance the strike.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1970-10-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of primarily women and children stand in front of a restaurant in Hamtramck, Michigan, with banners and picket signs, some reading, "Join the fight for a 20% reduction in meat prices" and "Strike, 20% reduction in meat prices." "On July 27, 1935, Polish and Black housewives began to picket Hamtramck butcher shops, carrying signs demanding a 20 percent price cut throughout the city and an end to price gouging in Black neighborhoods, when men, taunted by onlookers who accused them of being "scared by a few women," attempted to cross the lines, they were "seized by the pickets...their faces slapped, their hair pulled and their packages confiscated...a few were knocked down and trampled," that night Hamtramck butchers reported unhappily that the boycott had been 95 percent effective," from U.S. Women in Struggle: A Feminist Studies Anthology,
by Claire Goldberg Moses and Heidi I. Hartmann.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1935-08-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Striking bus drivers walk with picket signs in front of idled buses in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1948-08-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- UAW President Leonard Woodcock stands at a podium addressing union delegates during the 1970 General Motors strike. He is asking them to vote to increase union dues to finance the strike.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1970-10-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of people (identified as Jane Tate, PTA, Karl D. Gregory, Lt. Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, Michigan Governor, George Romney and Aubrey McCutcheon) involved in teacher strikes gather at table to talk, with journalists standing in background. "Nearly a fourth of all children in the schools of Michigan discovered last week that no bell tolled for them be cause teachers in 35 districts refused to work without a contract, aware that a state law bans teacher strikes, both the Michigan Education Association, an affiliate of the N.E.A., and the A.F.L.C.I.O. Michigan Federation of Teachers insist that their members were simply "withholding services," the worst of these nonstrikes closed all classes in the 300,000-student Detroit system, there, Mrs. Mary Ellen Riordan, an old-style, fiery unionist who is president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, led her 6,400 members in a fight for a $1,200 pay hike and a two-week cut in the 40-week school year, the city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education of children should be used as a pawn in negotiations,"" from a Time magazine article dated Friday, Sep. 15, 1967.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1967-09-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of striking employees, some holding picket signs, demonstrate at Michigan Steel Casting Company in Detroit, Michigan.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of people (identified as Jane Tate, PTA, Karl D. Gregory, Lt. Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, Michigan Governor, George Romney and Aubrey McCutcheon) involved in teacher strikes gather at table to talk, with journalists standing in background. "Nearly a fourth of all children in the schools of Michigan discovered last week that no bell tolled for them be cause teachers in 35 districts refused to work without a contract, aware that a state law bans teacher strikes, both the Michigan Education Association, an affiliate of the N.E.A., and the A.F.L.C.I.O. Michigan Federation of Teachers insist that their members were simply "withholding services," the worst of these nonstrikes closed all classes in the 300,000-student Detroit system, there, Mrs. Mary Ellen Riordan, an old-style, fiery unionist who is president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, led her 6,400 members in a fight for a $1,200 pay hike and a two-week cut in the 40-week school year, the city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education of children should be used as a pawn in negotiations,"" from a Time magazine article dated Friday, Sep. 15, 1967.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1967-09-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Chaotic scene as uniformed police officers, one mounted, clash with striking United Electrical Workers who are demonstrating against Square D. Electric Company in Detroit, Michigan. "Union leaders and management hammered out a settlement that meant victory for the company but saved face for the unionists, among the terms: a 4¢ hourly wage hike (v. the 5¢ demanded and the 3¢ offered), an extra holiday, arbitration of 27 cases involving employees who were fired during the strike for alleged violence and intimidation," from Time Magazine article October 11, 1954.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1954-09-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City