Photos of UAW local union holiday parties, 1940s-50s, from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Whether giving kids a chance to talk to Santa or organizing toy drives, @uaw.org holiday events have been huge to their respective communities over the years. youtube.com/shorts/d9Zqc...

If you are using AI slop for your history-themed podcast/blog/social media, you are doing us a disservice. Just looking at these photos, there's so much misinformation, it's disheartening. If you are committed to telling history, stick to authentic and original content, don't cut corners with AI!

Congrats to the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social’s 2025 vertical curling champions: Shae, Stefanie, and Dan! We play this original sport and annual tradition every year at our holiday party, and is just one reason of many why the Reuther is the coolest archives around.🪂

Caught between Thanksgiving and Christmas🧣 Cover of @uaw.org's Ammunition magazine. December 1948. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Motivation for this chilly❄️ Friday...Striking Plymouth autoworkers stay warm in Detroit during the 1937 Chrysler Sit-down Strike. From the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

In Paris, @uaw.org President Walter Reuther distributing CARE packages to @force-ouvriere.bsky.social members working at a Renault auto plant. 1949. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, learn more at the Walter Reuther Digital Archive: projects.library.wayne.edu/omeka-s/s/re...

Kids braving the winter cold and marching on the picket line during the Flint Sit-down Strike in 1937. Walking through a winter flurry this morning reminded me of this gem from the @uaw.org archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Co-op grocery store run by @uaw.org Local 877, out of Bridgeport, CT. From the union's archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

On this day 70 years ago, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the @aflcio.org, the largest federation of unions in the United States.

"Our Union is no turkey" 🦃 Thanksgiving themed issue of Local 834 News, newsletter for the Philadelphia @uaw.org local. November 1989. From the UAW Publications at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

If you fridge is full of turkey after Thanksgiving, feel free to use those leftovers to make @uaw.org President Walter Reuther's personal recipe for turkey mornay with broccoli. From his papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

The latest episode of Tales from the Reuther Library features @afacwa.org president @flyingwithsara.bsky.social! Check it out on your favorite podcast app. @reutherlibrary.bsky.social #LaborHistory #podcasts

"We fight for a better tomorrow..." @uaw.org poster from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Respect for Jasper. Of all the fact-checkers I’ve dealt with from the press, the New Yorker’s are the most thorough and dogged.

This 1974 cover of @uaw.org Ammunition made me realize we are at the very end of the best season of the year here in Michigan. Enjoy those remaining fall colors while you got ‘em, folks. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.🍂

Gloria McCabe, @afscme.bsky.social Council 97 member, had an unusual commute to work w/ the AZ Department of Economic Security. 4X a year, she and colleagues traveled all day by horse into the #GrandCanyon to the most remote Native American reservation in the US. #NativeAmericanHeritage #Arizona

"Space Shuttle: It's Meaning to Labor & the United Auto Workers" Pamphlet from @uaw.org advocating NASA to develop a reusable space shuttle system and why it should be union-built. From the UAW Aerospace Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🚀👩‍🚀

Pamphlets on "right-to-work" repeal, social safety net, and raising the min. wage, from America's leading civil rights leaders. Includes MLK, Bayard Rustin, and more. Made by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1960s. From @uaw.org President Walter Reuther's archive at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Agricultural implement workers from @uaw.org Local 1301 on strike. Chicago area, circa 1950s. From the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

This was my favorite radio program growing up, I even still have cassettes of old shows I taped on my boombox. So proud to be a supporter of @wdet.bsky.social!

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the #EdmundFitzgerald on #LakeSuperior. This documentary from @clickondetroit.com uses the WDIV archives at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social and features our AV department's #Steenbeck (film viewing machine): www.clickondetroit.com/features/202...

Pamphlet for the Brookwood Labor Players chautauqua program, a traveling show teaching about labor solidarity. Performances included plays, songs, and "novelty numbers" about labor. In fact, many early @uaw.org leaders were Brookwood alum. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

If you want to win the city-wide bar trivia tourney, take it to the next level and get an archivist. My grad school bar trivia team of future archivists had a future Jeopardy! super champion and another who qualified for the show. As a profession, we are somehow nerdier than librarians.

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

Bilingual newspaper from @uaw.org Local 51 as the union organized the many Polish immigrant autoworkers who had settled in the Detroit area. 1941. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Another reason to support @detcityfc.com? DCFC payers are unionized with USL Local 7211!

Don't judge a book by its cover...Who would guess these cutesy scrapbooks contain dramatic history of the early @uaw.org? From the John Eldon Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, they're scrapbooks of news clippings about 1930s autoworker organizing. 📰🐶 archives.wayne.edu/repositories...

Also, it's Halloween and the last day of American archives month!

"Don't Let 'Em Scare You!"👻😱🏚️ #Halloween haunted house-themed flyer from @uaw.org Local 1069, telling members about their legal rights to wear a union button with pride, no matter what their foreman threatens. 1953, from UAW Aerospace Dept Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social .

Enlisting the assistance of Gavin Strassel, @uawarchivist.bsky.social for the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social at Wayne State University proved to be the detective they needed.

Such and honor and so much fun to be a part of this event!

Gulliver breaks his bonds Cartoon from 1941 issue of United Automobile Worker, newspaper of the @uaw.org. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Halloween hoopla! 👻🧙‍♀️🦇October 1989 issue of The 1866 Voice, publication for @uaw.org Local 1866. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🎃🏚️🌙

Deeply misguided and ahistorical view on organized labor by Vance. As Chris Cooper says in the film Matewan, "Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club!"

Kid going all in on the 🍎 bobbing? Human-sized 🐕/surgeon? Girls terrified by something off-camera? Grim Reaper? Reaper's victim? Tag which photo from this collage of @uaw.org Local 662's 1977 Halloween party you most identify with this Halloween! From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

🎃 @uaw.org members from the Lansing Car Assembly GM plant, rocking their Halloween costumes. 1990 issue of Line Times. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Sweet and sour pork recipe from the Executive Chef at the @uaw.org’s Black Lake education center. 1976 issue of Solidarity magazine, from the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

🚗🔊Very excited to present today at Solidarity House on the history of sound cars and sound trucks used in the early decades of the @uaw.org! Lots of great content and stories from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.📣

👀 👀 When you're looking for something unrelated and stumble into slides from the 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial march in Memphis, during the @afscme.bsky.social Local 1733 sanitation workers strike. #NationalGuard #Memphis #LaborHistory #MLK #LaborUnions

"Make Jobs, not war" "Fund mass transit" "Reagan: Robin Hood in reverse" "Solidarity Day: Labor stands united" Union slogans and pieces of flair on display with this @uaw.org member. Michigan, circa early 1980s. From the UAW's archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Your political action spinach contains vitamins A,F,S,C,M,&E, adding power to your punch! The Public Sector from #CSEA Local 1000 @afscme.bsky.social @reutherlibrary.bsky.social #PopeyeTheSailorMan #vote Did you know Popeye is in the public domain as of this year? #copyright #PublicDomain #cartoons

Workers from other factories rallying in Solidarity for GM autoworkers during the Flint Sit-down Strike. 1936/37. The Great Sit-Down Strike pamphlet, from the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

@uawarchivist.bsky.social Gavin Strassel drops knowledge on the UAW's historic vinyl publications, which feature songs of solidarity and social justice. 📽 youtube.com/shorts/jU5Lc...

🐅 Archivists have a slogan, "archives are not neutral," and in that spirit, go Tigers! Cartoon of @uaw.org President Owen Bieber with a @tigers.bsky.social proto-mascot. Letters-to-the-editor section of 1989 issue of Solidarity magazine, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Here Are the Facts About UAW-CIO Radio Station WDET-FM 📻 Article from @uaw.org Local 174 newspaper about the radio station, @wdet.bsky.social, which the union would eventually gift to Wayne State University. 1949, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

@uaw.org Local 174 flying squadron armband. Circa 1939s-40s, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Vital to the UAW’s early successes, flying squadrons were groups of union members ready to mobilize and support in solidarity fellow workers on strike at other workplaces.

🤚When you doodle during that next meeting, just remember, it might end up in the archives. Outline of Ed Reno’s hand, from the @uaw.org Local 174 Records at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Keep on guard Support your union safety committees Poster made by the @uaw.org, circa late 1940s. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.