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The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, ... On July 24, 1968, just days after the UAW disaffiliation, ...
The Alliance for Labor Action (ALA) was an American and Canadian national trade union center which existed from July 1968 until January 1972. Its two main members were the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, although it had some smaller affiliates.
Homer Martin (September 16, 1901 in Illinois – January 22, 1968) was an American trade unionist, socialist, and the second president of the United Auto Workers (UAW). After high school he attended Hewing College and received his AB from William Jewell College. Martin then attended the Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary for two years.
DRUM sought to organize black workers to obtain concessions not only from the Chrysler management, but also from the United Auto Workers. Walter Reuther and the senior leadership had been early supporters of the American Civil Rights Movement ; yet in spite of their growing presence in the auto-industry African-Americans rarely rose to ...
In Campobasso, four years before the establishment of the United Auto Workers and on the other side of the world, Clara Discenza was born to photographer Vittorio Discenza and homemaker Antonietta ...
During the final days of 1936, about 50 autoworkers at General Motors shut down their machines at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, and sat down.
Fitzsimmons also began taking the union in new directions. In July 1968 he and Walter Reuther, the president of the United Auto Workers formed a new national trade union center, the Alliance for Labor Action, to organize unorganized workers and to pursue left-wing political and social projects. [19]
The United Auto Workers union is on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the first time in its history that it has struck all three of America’s unionized automakers at the same time.