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The UAW's fortunes began to improve after it began organizing on an industrial basis. The union found rapid success with the sitdown strike, a tactic where workers "sit down" at their work stations to occupy a factory. [14] Sitdown strikes enabled small numbers of workers to interrupt the assembly line and stop production across an entire plant ...
Quiles says he rounded up a little over 100 signed union cards in about a month. (Photo: via Associated Press) Forming the first retail union at a powerful corporation like Home Depot is an ...
Wyndham Mortimer (March 11, 1884 – August 25, 1966) was an American trade union organizer and functionary active in the United Auto Workers union (UAW). Mortimer is best remembered as a key union organizer in the 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike. Mortimer was the First Vice President of the UAW from 1936 to 1939.
The union dated its origins to August 26, 1935, when the United Auto Workers (UAW) was established. As it was associated with the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO), it was suspended by the American Federation of Labor the following year, and it was expelled in May 1938, but a minority, led by Homer Martin, and representing locals ...
The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers. It ...
This allows the UAW to keep its $825 million “strike fund” going as long as possible while the union pursues its strategy of striking all three automakers in a select way.
The UAW, which represents over 400,000 auto workers, has already endorsed Harris. But another major U.S. labor union, the Teamsters, has yet to make an endorsement.
Boston University Graduate Workers Union [28] [29] BUGWU certified SEIU 509 MA Brandeis University Graduate Student Union? [30] [31] - contracted SEIU 509 RI Brown University Graduate Labor Organization [32] [33] GLO contracted AFT 6516 CA California State University System Academic Student Employees [34] [35] [36] ASE contracted UAW 4123 MI