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☆ How an auto workers strike 87 years ago transformed America
  + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
The workers, members of the tiny United Automobile Workers union founded just a year prior, sought to improve brutal working conditions at mighty General Motors, the world’s largest manufacturer. The UAW’s sit-down strike across GM plants lasted 44 days. The 44-day strike birthed the United Auto Workers union. The UAW is calling its new strategy a “stand up strike,” a reference to the sit-down strike that started 87 years ago, and has launched targeted strikes at selected plants. The sit-down strike also prompted unionization and a wave of strikes in other industries.
Persons: Sheldon Dick, —, Shawn Fain, “ Shawn Fain, ”, Thomas Sugrue, GM foremen, Steven Greenhouse, Tom Watson, Frank Murphy, “, Joseph McCartin, Emily Elconin, Fain, McCartin Organizations: New, New York CNN, General Motors, Fisher, United Automobile Workers, GM, United Auto Workers, UAW, Detroit’s, Motors, Ford, New York University, American Labor, ” Strikers, Chevrolet, NY, Getty Images Police, Management, Flint police, Michigan Gov, National Guard, New York Times, Magazine, Chrysler, “ Auto, Georgetown University, Bloomberg, Getty, Unions, Current UAW Locations: New York, Flint , Michigan, America, Europe, Flint, Bettmann, Ford, Wayne , Michigan
☆ Nikki Haley Makes Her Pitch in New Hampshire. It’s Unclear Whether Voters Will Swing.
  + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Maya King | More About Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
During her appearances, Ms. Haley also mixed in subtle digs at her primary rivals. “I did not go to an Ivy League school like the fellas that are in this race,” she told voters in a North Conway community center on Thursday. “I went to a public university.” Touting her degree in accounting from Clemson University, she said: “I’m not a lawyer. Frank Murphy, 54, who moved to northern New Hampshire from South Carolina in 2016, knows Ms. Haley as his former governor. post, he raised his hand within the first few minutes of her speech to tell her he was from Charleston.
Persons: Haley, “, ”, Ms, Haley’s, Frank Murphy Organizations: South Carolina’s, Ivy League, Clemson University, Washington, Lancaster Locations: New Hampshire, North Conway, South Carolina, Charleston
☆ My grandfather hid the emotional toll of World War II from his family for decades
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
CNN —For decades after returning home from World War II, my grandfather did not talk about his wartime experiences. Frank Murphy, the grandfather of CNN's Chloe Melas, after he was captured and taken a prisoner of war by the Nazis in 1943. Everyone could see the physical toll of war on his body, but we didn’t know about his invisible wounds. After World War I, it was “shell shock”; post-World War II it was known as “combat fatigue,” and after Vietnam it was called “post-Vietnam syndrome.” In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association officially recognized it as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. “When your grandfather and my grandfather served in World War II, they didn’t talk about it,” Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told me.
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