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Pro-Palestine protesters march to Northwestern High School hours before Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the high school in Detroit during a Labor Day rally on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.
The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is a labor organization in the United States and Canada that represents employees in the public transit industry. Established in 1892 as the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, the union was centered primarily in the Eastern United States; today, ATU has over 200,000 members throughout the United States and Canada.
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.
Both the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor had each chartered a labor union for auto workers, both named the UAW. The UAW-CIO met in Cleveland, representing 370,000 members, and elected R. J. Thomas, who was a former Chrysler worker and the former Vice President of the UAW-AFL union.
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The strike was observed by some 4,000 workers, lasted 2.5 days and prevented the production of 3,000 cars. In the subsequent Local 3 election, DRUM ran as an alternative slate. Although it did not win, the new organization drew notice for its militancy and willingness to challenge the UAW hierarchy.
Kamala Harris credited union members with bolstering worker protections across the U.S. economy at a Labor Day campaign stop in Detroit. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 ...
Reuther's Treaty of Detroit was a notable achievement for the UAW that followed three rounds of negotiations since 1945. The first negotiation after the war began with a strike of 320,000 GM workers on November 21, 1945, with Reuther demanding a 30% wage increase and a pledge from GM not to raise car prices.