Pros And Cons Of The Cio

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The CIO was born out of a fundamental dispute within the U.S. labor movement over whether and how to organize industrial workers.. Those who favored craft unionism believed that the most effective way to represent workers was to defend the advantages they had secured through their skills. The CIO unions stabilized a chaotic employment situation and offered members a sense of dignity and freedom by ending total submissiveness of worker to boss. The CIO was founded on November 9, 1935, by eight international unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The CIO had formed to encourage the AFL to organize workers in mass production industries along industrial union lines but failed to change AFL policy from within. The CIO remained within the AFL for a year but then became a separate…show more content…
Steel. The union took not only over several GM factories in Flint, but held on to those sites despite repeated attempts by the police and National Guard to retake them. Yet there was a problem, middle-class Americans were upset by the sit-down tactic of the CIO which they saw as an attack on private property. The Supreme Court outlawed the sit-down strike and took CIO’s most effective weapon. Moreover, there were also many problems limited the CIO success during the 1930s. Hopes of black workers for the CIO, however, were not realized because, due to racial discrimination, few African Americans found employment in the industries the CIO was organizing. Consequently, the CIO brought few black activists into their ranks. The CIO did organize a significant number of women; however,. Women were not encouraged to assume leadership roles in CIO unions, and little effort was made to organize workers in the service sectors, which tended to be dominated by
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