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By mid-1937 the new union claimed 150,000 members and was spreading through the auto and parts manufacturing towns of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. [18] The Ford Motor Company was the last of the "Big Three" automakers to recognize the UAW. Henry Ford and his security manager, Harry Bennett, used brute force to keep the union out of ...
The United Auto Workers union on Wednesday endorsed President Joe Biden, a long-awaited announcement that is an important pickup for the president.
The UAW endorsement — which Fain and the union had withheld for months, even as other labor groups openly backed Biden for reelection, saying they wanted a candidate to earn their backing ...
President Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of the United Auto Workers on Wednesday as he addressed the powerful union's political convention. “I’m proud to stand up here and announce that ...
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]
President Joe Biden on Thursday sought to capitalize on last week’s high-profile endorsement from the United Auto Workers, heading to Michigan to meet with members of the union as he battles ...
Gettelfinger is a 1976 graduate of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana. The workers at Ford's Louisville Assembly plant elected Gettelfinger to represent them as committeeperson, bargaining chair and president. He was elected president of local union 862 in 1984. In 1987, he became a member of the Ford-UAW bargaining committee.
The UAW’s endorsement has outsize political implications because of its influence in Michigan, a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential race. Biden, a Democrat, narrowly won the state ...