{"id":1219823,"date":"2023-09-20T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=294803"},"modified":"2023-09-20T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:00:05","slug":"americas-auto-workers-on-strike-against-inequality-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/20\/americas-auto-workers-on-strike-against-inequality-again\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust as in the 1930s,\u201d Shawn Fain reminded his fellow auto workers, \u201cwe\u2019re living in a time of stunning inequality throughout our society.\u201d Back then, in those 1930s, UAW members began a generation-long struggle that put a significant dent in that \u201cstunning inequality.\u201d By the early 1960s, auto worker struggles and sacrifices had helped give birth \u2014 in the United States \u2014 to a mass middle class. A majority of a major nation\u2019s households, after paying for life\u2019s most basic necessities, actually had money left over. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/20\/americas-auto-workers-on-strike-against-inequality-again\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/20\/americas-auto-workers-on-strike-against-inequality-again\/\">America\u2019s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again.<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/20\/americas-auto-workers-on-strike-against-inequality-again\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Sam Pizzigati.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust as in the 1930s,\u201d Shawn Fain reminded his fellow auto workers, \u201cwe\u2019re living in a time of stunning inequality throughout our society.\u201d Back then, in those 1930s, UAW members began a generation-long struggle that put a significant dent in that \u201cst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42901,42880,1280,22,4560,228,932,266,27150,7243,3684],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219902,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219823\/revisions\/1219902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}