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In 2006, unionization levels within the US auto industry—historically, one of the most highly organized—are low and plummeting. Among major auto manufacturers, only the so-called ‘Big Three’ are UAW-represented. All of the US’ major manufacturers, including the Big Three, practice high levels of outsourcing to predominantly non-unionized independent parts suppliers. This paper shows how the UAW’s own policies and actions from the 1940s to the 1960s—particularly its pro-outsourcing/anti-monopoly stance and its ‘ability to pay policy’--contributed to the political fragmentation and union stagnation of today’s auto industry. |
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| Gritsch, Maria. "The Historical Origins of Outsourcing and Union Crisis within the US Auto Industry: Organized Labor’s Self-Determination?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102959_index.html> |
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| Gritsch, M. F. , 2006-08-10 "The Historical Origins of Outsourcing and Union Crisis within the US Auto Industry: Organized Labor’s Self-Determination?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102959_index.html |
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Abstract: In 2006, unionization levels within the US auto industry—historically, one of the most highly organized—are low and plummeting. Among major auto manufacturers, only the so-called ‘Big Three’ are UAW-represented. All of the US’ major manufacturers, including the Big Three, practice high levels of outsourcing to predominantly non-unionized independent parts suppliers. This paper shows how the UAW’s own policies and actions from the 1940s to the 1960s—particularly its pro-outsourcing/anti-monopoly stance and its ‘ability to pay policy’--contributed to the political fragmentation and union stagnation of today’s auto industry. |
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| Gritsch ASA Labor and Labor Movements Mgritsch@ucla.edu The Historical Origins of Outsourcing and Union Crisis within the US Auto Industry: Organized Labor’s Self-Determination? In the decades between 1945 and 1965 how did the UAW International leadership’s policies promote increased outsourcing and union stagnation? I argue that the UAW’s anti-monopoly political philosophy–motivated by fears of the Big Three’s monopoly power and of being similarly labeled monopolistic–predisposed its International leadership to promote Big Three outsourcing to independent suppliers. The UAW’s International |
| suppliers’ 1950s competitiveness crisis. At a point when the UAW might have curtailed if not ended Big Three outsourcing to independent suppliers it chose instead to promote outsourcing and to do so by implicitly endorsing whipsawing by allowing firms to compete by undercutting workers’ wages and working conditions. By granting suppliers contract concessions on a firm-by-firm basis the UAW indirectly granted concessions to the Big Three and facilitated the intra-industry fragmentation and competition that today beleaguers unionized and non-unionized |
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