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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.
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.
Shelton Tappes began working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1928, first at their Briggs plant and later at the River Rouge plant. [7] In 1932, Tappes took part in the Ford Hunger March, where unemployed auto workers tried to present a petition to Henry Ford but were dispersed by gunfire from police and Ford's security team; five marchers died from their wounds.
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 ...
The 1945—1946 strike established a strategy, forged by then-UAW president Walter Reuther, to target efforts on a single company. Since the 1950s, UAW has faced declining union membership and a growing service sector, reducing the economic impact that a strike could have. [15] In 2019, UAW autoworkers went on strike against
The UAW has a history of trying to organize, and failing, in the South, particularly at that plant, which is VW's only plant in the United States. In 2014, the union was confident it would win a ...
The two member unions provided the ALA with an annual budget of $4.5 million, the same amount they would have paid to the AFL-CIO in per capita dues. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] A major organizing drive targeting African American workers was launched in Atlanta, Georgia , in the fall of 1969 involving 50 staff organizers (half of them black), 200 ...