Quote Originally Posted by Jimaz View Post
Yeah, well, if the southern states had ever really cared about workers' jobs there never would have been The Great Migration in the first place.

They already failed that test long ago.
How’s that working out for Y’all now,you went from The highest paid workers in the country to the highest poverty rate,with all the major rust belt cities left in ruins.

The union did not force Henry Ford to offer the $5 wage that set off the great migration,correct ?

At that time 95% was agricultural,and then somebody invented these things called machines that replaced workers,Kinda like they are doing now,every month 1000 s of union jobs are lost,but it’s the south’s fault because they just will not get into lockstep.

Sense 2018 128.7 million people moved from the north to the south,they did not move to pick cotton or join the union.

Like locusts,swarming in and consuming cities then when they are left in ruins they move on to the next one.

“Attention would-be war workers! Stay away from Detroit unless you have definite promise of a job in this city. If you expect a good-paying job in one of the big auto plants at this time, you’re doomed to disappointment and hardship.” For the next two years there were always over 100,000 unemployed Detroiters, most of them autoworkers, with the official total reaching 250,000 in August 1952. At one point in 1952, 10 percent of all the unemployment in the nation was concentrated in Detroit. Moreover, you were counted as “employed” if you worked as little as one hour per week. Underemployment was a chronic problem that remained invisible in official unemployment statistics. Again, this was all after those lucrative 1950 contracts were signed. The wages and benefits written into those agreements gave a misleading impression of how autoworkers actually lived.

https://themetropole.blog/2020/01/30...-postwar-boom/

So there actually never a time in Detroit where the union promises were held up.