GM Union Members Have Regrets, Hopes for Janesville Plant

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In 1937workers at General Motors plant in Janesville joined their union comrades in Detroit and held a sit-down strike that resulted in the birth of the United Auto Workers Union. Today more than a thousandUAW workers, many of them gandchildren of the original strikers,will lose their jobs . TheJanesville plant rolls out it’s last Tahoe SUV sometime this morning. Gil Halsted talked to workers and union leaders about whether or not this reallyis the end for one of GM’s oldest plants

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