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The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and southern Ontario, Canada.
George Burt was the Canadian Director of the United Auto Workers (UAW) from 1939 to 1968. He is the longest-serving leader of the Canadian Union at 29 years. He pioneered many contractual issues that affected Canadian auto workers in the early years of the union movement. The reasons for the CAW split from the UAW are complicated.
Final Offer is a Canadian film documenting the 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and General Motors. [1] Ultimately, it provided a historical record of the birth of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) as Bob White, the head of the Canadian sector of the UAW, led his membership out of the international union and created the CAW.
BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO) — Cautious optimism rang through the air at United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1268 on Thursday as union members cast their vote on whether to authorize a strike against ...
After less than a week, the 5,000 workers who walked off the job at General Motors Arlington during the United Auto Workers strike are heading back to work. UAW’s strike has officially ended ...
The workers, members of the tiny United Automobile Workers union founded just a year prior, sought to improve brutal working conditions at mighty General Motors, the world’s largest manufacturer.
Mathieu retired in 1983. In the 1980s, amid rising Canadian nationalism in the labour movement, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) formed as a split from the United Auto Workers (UAW) and began campaigning for a process to exist for Canadian sections to leave their international bodies and become independent or merge with Canadian unions. [8]
The United Auto Workers strike is set to end as the union and General Motors announced a tentative agreement on a new contract Monday. The breakthrough comes just days after similar deals with ...