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The UAW saw a loss of membership after the 1970s. Membership topped 1.5 million in 1979, falling to 540,000 in 2006. With the late-2000s recession and automotive industry crisis of 2008–10, GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. Membership fell to 390,000 active members in 2010, with more than 600,000 retired members covered by ...
The GM sit-down strike led to a burst in UAW membership. Its membership surged from 88,000 in February 1937 to 400,000 by October. By 1941, it had jumped to 649,000 members, according to Greenhouse.
The most important membership changes, however, occurred in 1968. The United Auto Workers (UAW) disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after UAW President Walter Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of national public policy issues or on reforms regarding AFL–CIO governance. [19]
The 2007 General Motors Strike was a labor union strike that lasted three days from September 23 to September 25, 2007, organized by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. The UAW were engaged in talks with General Motors (GM) to negotiate a new labor contract but were unable to come to an agreement before the deadline. Consequently, 73,000 ...
In 1983, the first year where comparable union data is available, the union membership rate was 20.1% and there were 17.7 million union workers, compared with 14.3 million last year.
With the United Auto Workers union going on strike, see how it compares to the largest strikes in U.S. history. How the UAW strike compares to the biggest work stoppages in history Skip to main ...
UAW Local 4811 is the local union of United Auto Workers representing academic student employees, graduate student researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and academic researchers at 10 campuses of the University of California system and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with the exception of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
Shawn Fain in his first year as UAW president received a total of $228,872 from the union in salary and other payments. ... It also provides a view of the union’s membership numbers, which ...