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Topics covered include UAW legal matters and factionalism, the Ford Hunger March, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and radical politics. Papers pertaining to Maurice Sugar's work with the National Lawyers Guild can be found in the National Lawyers Guild Records at the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley.
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 employees.
The UAW also remains a major player in the state Democratic Party. [ 62 ] In March 2020, the Detroit United Auto Workers union announced that after discussion with the leaders of General Motors , Ford , and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles , the carmakers would partially shut down factories on a "rotating" basis to combat the COVID-19 pandemic .
The United Auto Workers' strike against the Big Three automakers in Michigan has resulted in job losses and scaling back of future plans, while the union's focus on other issues and corruption ...
From an exam cheating scandal to shocking demotions and promotions, and all the way to a complete lack of confidence from the troopers themselves, the situation is dire ("Michigan State Police in ...
The GOP sees the UAW walkout as a potential lifeline in Michigan, where politically weakened Republicans are now plotting how best to seize on a tension point between Democrats’ clean-energy ...
The most important membership changes, however, occurred in 1968. The United Auto Workers (UAW) disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after UAW President Walter Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of national public policy issues or on reforms regarding AFL–CIO governance. [19]
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks next to Shawn Fain, President of the United Auto Workers (UAW), as he joins striking UAW members on the picket line outside the GM's Willow Run Distribution Center ...