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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.
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.
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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.
The labor union United Auto Workers (UAW) represents approximately 145,000 automobile workers employed at Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Stellantis. [14] To achieve its goals, UAW has engaged in strike action; from November 1945 to March 1946, UAW went on strike against General Motors.
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January 8: Sit-down strike at the 3800-worker Cadillac plant in Detroit, organized by Walther Reuther's West Side local. [10] January 12: Sit-down strike at the Detroit plant of Fleetwood, a Cadillac supplier. Around ninety workers began the sit-down, which held until January 15, when it was converted into conventional strike. [10]