A Talk with Owen Bieber of the UAW

A Talk with Owen Bieber of the UAW

In mid-July, on a hot Detroit afternoon, I came to Solidarity House—the national headquarters of the United Automobile Workers Union—to have a talk with Owen Bieber, the union’s new president. The result follows below.

In a 1961 film illustrating how the UAW was training a new generation of leaders, Brendan Sexton, the union’s educational director, and Guy Nunn, its TV and radio commentator, chose to focus on the experiences of a typical student at the Black Lake, Mi...


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