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Action Coalition of Strikers Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001694
Abstract
The Action Coalition of Strikers (ACOS) was a rank-and-file group of strikers and their families who were active during the Detroit Newspaper Strike. Representing reporters, editors, pressmen, and truck drivers, the coalition opposed the newspaper union leadership and their proposed back-to-work offer and instead pressed forward with a campaign to fight to restore all lost jobs. They sponsored peaceful and disciplined mass demonstrations in support of the strikers, and published the weekly...
Dates:
1944 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1997
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Newspaper Guild Local 22: Detroit Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000011
Abstract
The Newspaper Guild, a national organization, initially began with the intent to be a professional organization more than a union. As such, the 1933 founders chose to call the group a “guild.” The Newspaper Guild Local 22 was an early local, established in 1934. Organizers were successful in establishing this local in Detroit by using sit-down strikes across the entire state. The Detroit Times and the Detroit Free Press were first to win bargaining recognition: The Times was first certified...
Dates:
1933 - 2007
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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