The Grim Word from Detroit  

The beating heart of the American auto industry is Detroit. It is home for 78 auto and auto-related manufacturing plants employing 200,000 workers and for the corporate headquarters of the “Big Three” companies (Volkswagen of America is also here) and …



Why UAW Members Didn’t Support Reagan  

DETROIT — The nation’s auto workers did not rush to join the 1980 blue-collar “revolt” against Democrat Jimmy Carter. Instead, there was early evidence that the UAW rank and file “came home” to the Roosevelt-Democratic coalition and, in the end, …