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The latest expansion will mean that about 25,000 of the UAW’s 146,000 members will be on strike as the walkout continues. Fain started a Facebook Live broadcast almost 30 minutes past its ...
Production workers at GM’s Lansing Delta plant — UAW Local 602 — voted against the deal, with 63% opposing it. However, 60% of skilled trade workers voted for the deal. However, 60% of ...
The chief executives of GM and Ford blasted United Auto Workers leaders on Friday, and UAW chief Shawn Fain responded in kind, hours after the union escalated the strike that is now in its third week.
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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 United Auto Workers union said Wednesday it has reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford that could be a breakthrough toward ending the nearly 6-week-old strikes against Detroit ...
Reuther had been involved in both negotiations and strikes prior, having been the president of Local 174, which represented autoworkers in Detroit. [2] The UAW had been experiencing infighting at the time, described as "internecine factionalism that pitted communists against conservatives."
The GM pact came after the UAW added another plant to the list of those on strike against the company, ramping up the pressure to bargain on the last Detroit holdout.