Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
It's time for Teamster leaders to start representing Teamster workers
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1141241" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>Just to make that Google search a little more narrow: The seeds for the Blue Collar revolt amongst rank-and-file union members were planted during the Civil Rights Era. The newly-minted middle class whites - ranging from Euro-ethnics in the midwest to southerners - felt insecure at the prospects of integrated schools, integrated neighborhoods (which they felt would lower property values on the only economic security vessel they had; their homes), etc. The fissures started to really appear as early as 1964 when George Wallace challenged LBJ in the presidential primaries; Wallace would tell union members the Civil Rights Act would eliminate their seniority rights and hurt their efforts at collective bargaining. The AFL-CIO spent millions on campaigns to try and turn back this tide throughout the 1960's. </p><p></p><p>Although Nixon ended up capitalizing on this with his "Southern Strategy" that ultimately re-aligned the South, it was really George Wallace that led the charge. That's part of the reason why my hub has feeder drivers making $90,000+/year cheering on cuts to unemployment and education while complaining about undocumented immigrants "stealing" from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1141241, member: 42270"] Just to make that Google search a little more narrow: The seeds for the Blue Collar revolt amongst rank-and-file union members were planted during the Civil Rights Era. The newly-minted middle class whites - ranging from Euro-ethnics in the midwest to southerners - felt insecure at the prospects of integrated schools, integrated neighborhoods (which they felt would lower property values on the only economic security vessel they had; their homes), etc. The fissures started to really appear as early as 1964 when George Wallace challenged LBJ in the presidential primaries; Wallace would tell union members the Civil Rights Act would eliminate their seniority rights and hurt their efforts at collective bargaining. The AFL-CIO spent millions on campaigns to try and turn back this tide throughout the 1960's. Although Nixon ended up capitalizing on this with his "Southern Strategy" that ultimately re-aligned the South, it was really George Wallace that led the charge. That's part of the reason why my hub has feeder drivers making $90,000+/year cheering on cuts to unemployment and education while complaining about undocumented immigrants "stealing" from them. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
It's time for Teamster leaders to start representing Teamster workers
Top